Three governments, two companies and one fleet of vans ensure continue suffering and dubious money making
By Daoud Kuttab This is a story about one fleet of vans, two companies and three governments. The van is a 9 seat hundai which travels a three kilometer route joining the passport terminal on both sides of the King Hussein Bridge. The companies are a Jordanian one and an Israeli. The Jordanian company: the […]
Weakness Hawkish elements
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Opinion NY Times Room for Debate June 23, 2009, 3:22 PM Weakening Hawkish Elements Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and a former professor of journalism at Princeton University. No matter how the standoff in Iran ends up, two things have become clear. The power of digital technology can override analog […]
Crossing the King Hussein Bridge
Jun. 21, 2009 Daoud Kuttab , THE JERUSALEM POST The suffering of Palestinians crossing the King Hussein Bridge, the only exit and entry point between the West Bank and Jordan, continues without any serious attempt at relief. While there is no doubt that the real remedy is the end of the occupation, genuine efforts should […]
Why Palestinians were quick to reject Netanyahu’s speech
By Daoud Kuttab In private talks held in Oslo and other places, Palestinians were promised an independent state, but were told by the Israelis that they couldn’t actually use these words in the agreement. They were told that the five-year transitional period, which began in 1994, was meant to convince the Israeli public to accept […]
Netanyahu fails ty Emulate Obama
Ever since his announcement that he was going to make a major address, the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was billed as a copy of the Obama speech in Cairo. In fact Netanyahu has been touting himself for some time as the Israeli Obama. His election campaigners tried to copy all of the […]
Obama is First US President in Office who Speaks of the Suffering of Palestinian Christians
“It is undeniable that the Palestinian people- Muslim and Christians- have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation, Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza and neighboring lands of a life of peace and security that they have never been able […]
Obama-Abbas: it starts with settlements
Daoud Kuttab AMMAN – The main conclusion emerging from the Obama-Abbas meeting last week is that the United States continues to be dead serious about its demand that Israel immediately freeze all settlement activities. Considering all the hot button topics, some might argue that issues of withdrawal, Jerusalem, and the Palestinian right of return, ought […]
To rebuild trust
An Arab proverb says that a madman throws a stone in a drinking well and 100 wise men are needed to get the stone out. This proverb applies to the gigantic effort that US President Barack Obama will have to exert as he attempts to clean up the mess his predecessor created in the Arab […]