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Taha Musa Abdul Aziz Nassar Warasneh was born in the town of Ash-Shuyukh in the Hebron Governorate on March 14, 1950. He is married and has seven children. He completed his primary and preparatory education at Beit Fajjar Preparatory School and graduated from Bethlehem Secondary School in 1968. He earned a diploma in English from Palestine Technical College – Kadoorie. He worked in the education sector from 1970 to 1987 and again from 1994 to 1998 until his retirement.
Influenced during his early youth by the Arab nationalist movement, he became active in the ranks of the Communist Party during his university studies. He engaged in trade union activity while working as a teacher, where he and his colleagues led a strike in 1980. He then joined the Democratic Front in 1985, progressing within it from an active member to a member of the branch committee in the Hebron area, then a member of the first leadership body. In 1994, he became part of the central leadership of the Democratic Front in the West Bank, and then in 1998, he gained membership in the Central Committee of the Front in Palestine and abroad.
He was arrested by the occupation in 1975, and his arrests continued, and he was deprived of his job in the education sector, and was prevented from traveling until 1998.
Nassar believes that the future of the Palestinian cause depends on many factors, foremost among them the unity of the Palestinian position, the unity of the Palestinian factions, ending the division, and agreeing on a program of common denominators. This constitutes a powerful and powerful tool of pressure not only against the Israeli occupation, but also in the face of the Arab and international realities. However, without achieving this, things are heading towards the worse, as the occupation will intensify the confiscation of lands, its practices against the Palestinians will escalate, and the changes in the Arab world will help to deepen the collapse of the Arab regional system, which will negatively affect the Palestinian cause.
Nassar opposed the Oslo Accords and called for moving beyond them and working within a struggle program that achieves Palestinian goals. He believes that the division will continue due to the existence of two currents within the Hamas and Fatah movements, who agreed to manage the division for the privileges that its continuation achieves. He believes that the division can only be ended by two things: first, great popular pressure on the two sides that forces them to implement the agreements that were signed, and second, a general popular uprising that forces the two sides to end the division and resist the occupation’s plans.
He believes in the right of the Palestinian people to use all means to get rid of the occupation, including armed resistance, and considers it a legitimate right guaranteed by most international laws. He calls for an agreement between the factions on a joint struggle program that includes all forms of struggle, and an agreement on the form, time and place of resistance in its various forms. He calls for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to be part of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Taha Nassar passed away on April 21, 2020.
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