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Samir Othman Halila was born in Kuwait on May 11, 1957, to a Palestinian refugee family whose origins trace back to the depopulated village of Yazur in the occupied Jaffa district. He is married and has a daughter. He completed his primary education in Jericho schools and his secondary education at the Friends Boys' School in Ramallah, graduating in 1975. He earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and Middle Eastern studies from the Faculty of Arts at Birzeit University in 1981 and a master's degree in economics from the American University of Beirut in 1983. He began lecturing at Birzeit University in 1984, then became Dean of Student Affairs until 1986. He served as Director of Research at the Arab Thought Forum from 1986 to 1989, and as an economic advisor to the Welfare Association in the West Bank from 1989 to 1992. He was appointed Assistant Undersecretary at the Ministry of Economy and Trade from 1994 to 1997, and then Marketing Director at Nassar Investment Company from 1997 to 2004. He was then appointed Secretary-General of the Cabinet from 2005 to 2006 and served as General Manager of the Portland Corporation. He was the CEO of Portland Trust in Palestine (2006-2008), and became the CEO of PADICO Holding between (2008-2017), and the Director of Nakheel Palestine Agricultural Investment Company between (2011-2017).
He served as a member of the Palestinian Telecommunications Company (Paltel) between (2008-2020), and chaired the boards of directors of a number of companies, institutions and centers, including: Palestine Power Generation Company, the World Chamber of Commerce - Palestine between (2013-2019), the Palestinian Economic Policy Research Center between (2014-2018), Jericho Gate Real Estate Investment Company between (2011-2017), Maalchat Electronic Payment Services Company since 2019, and the Advisory Council of Dar Al-Kalima College since 2022.
Halileh was active in student work during his university studies, and participated in the Palestinian economic negotiating delegation in the early nineties of the twentieth century. He took over a number of economic files in the multilateral negotiations between (1992-1994), and was a member of the bilateral negotiations track in Paris (1993-1994). He was active in institutional cultural and social work, as he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ), President of the Palestinian International Business Forum, President of the Birzeit University Alumni Association, a member of the Palestinian-British Business Council, a member of the Russian-Palestinian Business Council, Treasurer of the Palestinian Institute for Public Diplomacy, Chairman of the Jericho and Jordan Valley Development Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of the Palestinian Trade Center (PalTrade), and President of the Ashtar Theatre Group.
Halileh has written a number of studies, research papers and articles related to economic, political and cultural affairs, and has presented working papers and interventions at academic conferences in Palestine and abroad, and has given a number of lectures. He is also hosted on the media to comment on the development of events in Palestine.
Halileh believes that the external private sector contributed to building a network of companies in pioneering sectors that did not previously exist, such as the telecommunications company and the Palestinian stock exchange. He notes that the private sector's operations shifted after Oslo from small, family-run businesses to publicly traded companies requiring international expertise and substantial capital. He argues that the partnership between the private sector and the Palestinian Authority remains unfair, with the private sector being disadvantaged. He believes the international community is not ready for a political solution to the Palestinian issue and is unwilling to pay the price of pressuring Israel to achieve one. He believes the Palestinian people's primary option lies in achieving a long-term steadfastness, building resilience in the national economy, and rebuilding international alliances, as previous alliances with the United States and Security Council members have proven insufficient and provide cover for the continuation of the occupation. He supports the use of all possible means to end the occupation and believes Palestinians need resistance in various forms and at different levels, ranging from violent to peaceful, based on the right guaranteed by international law. However, he acknowledges that the decision regarding the type and timing of resistance is a significant responsibility. Therefore, Halileh calls for wisdom in any decision concerning resistance to protect the lives and future of the Palestinian people. He also advocates for ceasing to propose solutions to the occupation, as any such proposal would be... The presence of a Palestinian will be rejected, especially since the occupation wants to eliminate the Palestinian people and hide their narrative and history.
Halileh believes that the Oslo Accords, as a project to try to end the occupation, have not and will not succeed, especially since there is a conviction in Israeli society that it is able to continue and expand the occupation without any hindrance. This deprives the Palestinians of their negotiating power. Therefore, before resorting to the settlement path, the occupier must be made aware of the high price it must pay for continuing the occupation. Otherwise, negotiations will be futile under the current circumstances. He believes that the Palestinian people have reached a state where the peace process has disappeared, and there is now a broader societal configuration than self-rule but far less than a state, under an Israeli government with a right-wing majority that does not accept the two-state solution, the one-state solution, or the existence of a Palestinian people with rights.
Halileh believes the Palestinian national project has now returned to square one, and that the Palestinian people are facing a historic opportunity. He argues that Palestinian talk of a two-state solution is only temporary, especially given the proven impossibility of separating Palestinians from those in the occupied territories, from refugees, and from Palestinians abroad. In light of this, he calls for a wise reassessment of the Oslo Accords, one that preserves the gains achieved thus far.He views the division as a partisan power struggle and urges the Palestinian Authority to fulfill its role in representing the Palestinian people, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the national liberation movement. He calls on the Authority to defend both peaceful and non-peaceful resistance, to protect the culture of resistance and rejection of the occupation's impositions, to recognize democracy as fundamental, to accept the inevitable change in leadership positions, and to put an end to the violations and abuses committed by the security services.
Halila suffered during his life; he was arrested five times by the Egyptian authorities while attending Egyptian universities to study human medicine, and he was deported from Egypt after three years of study because of his participation in marches against the Camp David Accords in 1978.
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