Day: January 18, 2008

This time next year? Daoud Kuttab, IMEU, Jan 17, 2008 President George Bush, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have committed themselves to give the world a new year’s gift in 2009: an independent state of Palestine. After decades of war and homelessness, oppression and occupation, settlements and walls, this is…

Bitterlemons International January 17, 2008 Edition 3 Volume 6 Syria and the Palestinians: A love-hate relationship Daoud Kuttab For an entire century, Syria has had a love-hate relationship with Palestinians. The Palestinian cause has been at the core of Syria’s ideological and political posture. The pan-Arab ideology always placed Palestine at the center of Greater…