Obstacle or Opportunity
The following appeared in the Washington Post Obstacle or Opportunity? How the Palestinian Unity Government Offers a Path to Peace By Daoud Kuttab Monday, March 26, 2007; A15 When Henry Kissinger coined the term “constructive ambiguity” during his attempts to negotiate Arab-Israeli peace, he couldn’t have expected that one day Palestinians would use it […]
debate on washington post by daoud kuttab
PostGlobal Live Online Debate: U.S. And Hamas On Friday, March 23 at 2:00 PM ET, Daoud Kuttab and David Makovsky debated whether the U.S. should speak with Hamas ministers in the new Palestinian National Unity Government, as part of mediating the Israel-Palestine conflict. PostGlobal is a discussion forum on global issues with David […]
Olmert-Abbas again; not much hope
Olmert-Abbas again; not much hope  Daoud Kuttab There are few expectations that the upcoming Palestinian-Israeli summit will produce any breakthrough. It is now an accepted assumption that without a strong proactive role of the US, little change will happen in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Americans have shown higher level of interest in the conflict, but the […]
My letter in the NY times
To the Editor: As a columnist, Thomas L. Friedman is free to state an opinion. I agree with him that reform is necessary in the Arab world; there are many reform heroes. But reprinting a poem by an Arab poet that generalizes an entire nation is the way that stereotypes are made and perpetuated. If […]