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Dr. Anis Fawzi Qasim was born in Qalqilya in 1939, and spent his life there until 1957. He then moved between Syria, Kuwait, the United States, and Jordan. Qasim got married in 1975 and has three children.
Qasim studied at the Sa'diyya School in Qalqilya and received his high school diploma in 1957. He pursued his undergraduate studies (Bachelor's degree) at Damascus University, graduating with a degree in Law in 1965. He earned a Master's degree in Comparative Law from the University of Miami in Florida, USA, in 1968. From George Washington University, he obtained a second Master's degree in International Law in 1970, followed by a Doctorate in Law from the same university in 1973.
Qasim practiced his work as a lawyer and legal advisor to the Industrial Bank of Kuwait in Beit Ami in 1975 and 1977, then as a partner in the Al-Saleh, Graham and James Law Firm in Kuwait, from 1977 until 1990. Since 1992, he has practiced law in his own office in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Qasim has several books specializing in law, including: The Israeli Law of Return and the Israeli Nationality Law (1973), and the Israeli Nation-State Law (2024).
Qassem embraced Marxist thought, but he did not belong to any Palestinian faction, although he was a supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He did not hold any organizational positions in any Palestinian movement or organization, but he provided legal advice to the Palestinian leadership at certain times. He was appointed as a legal advisor to the Palestinian delegation in the Madrid and Washington negotiations in 1992 and resigned before the announcement of the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Qassem had many relationships with a number of prominent Palestinian figures, such as: Yasser Arafat, Salah Khalaf, Salim al-Za’noun, Abbas Zaki, Khaled Meshaal, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Ibrahim Ghosheh, Bashir al-Barghouthi, Nasser al-Qudwa, Zuhdi al-Tarzi, Jamal al-Sourani, Dr. Jamal Naji, Leila Khaled, Tayseer al-Zabari (Abu Ali Mustafa), and Mustafa al-Barghouthi.
Qassem does not consider the Oslo Accords a second catastrophe that befell the Palestinian people, but he views the division as not being a division between Fatah and Hamas, but rather a division between two political lines: the Oslo line and security coordination (sacred and unsacred), and the line of resistance and opposition to the occupation. Qassem believes that resisting the occupation in all its forms is a legitimate act, and he calls for national partnership between all factions, parties and figures within the framework of the Oslo understandings, including the Palestinian Authority.
Qassem believes that the conflict will not end except by breaking the will of one of the two parties: Zionism and the resistance forces. There is no middle ground with Zionism, and the complete liberation of historical Palestine is a national and religious necessity after a long experience of Zionist colonialism and apartheid. The issue of the form of the Palestinian state is a secondary matter for him. Qassem believes that the solution to the Palestinian refugee issue is the return according to UN Resolution 194. He also sees the current Palestinian political system as dictatorial.
Qasim was arrested by the Jordanian authorities in 1957, after the overthrow of Suleiman al-Nabulsi’s government. He was brought to trial and imprisoned for three years in Nablus prison, then in the al-Jafr desert detention camp in southern Jordan. The experience of detention had a severe impact on Qasim, shaping his path and personality.
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