Day: April 5, 2016

By Daoud Kuttab For the fourth year in a row, Bethlehem hosted a spring marathon. Nearly 4,400 participants, including foreigners and local Palestinians, ran, walked or pushed baby strollers in the Palestine Marathon on April 1 in a festive atmosphere.  To finish the full marathon, the runners had to complete two laps of a 21-kilometer…

By Daoud Kuttab In a March 18 statement, the Land Defense Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) reintroduced to political discussion terminology no longer often heard. In the statement, the PLO accused right-wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu of reviving theAllon Plan, so named after the late Labor Party Minister Yigal Allon.  The Allon Plan, developed shortly after Israel began its occupation of Palestinian lands in 1967, proposed that…