Israel appears disoriented on peace talks
By Daoud Kuttab Multiple reports two weeks before US Secretary of State John Kerry’s 21st visit to Palestine and Israel focused on a new Israeli concern: unorganized and uncoordinated acts of violence. The conclusion was that Israel’s main problem was impromptu and independent acts by frustrated Palestinians. One of the implications of this Israeli security assessment was that the Palestinian government […]
Palestinian-Israeli framework recalls previous interim agreement
By Daoud Kuttab When the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) agreed to recognize Israel and sign a memorandum of understanding in 1993, the organization was experiencing an all-time low. The PLO had been routed from Beirut, and later from Tripoli. An internal struggle within the Fatah movement had erupted under the name Fatah al-Intifada, and the Berlin Wall had fallen, leaving Palestinians […]
Yet another interim deal?
By Daoud Kuttab Following appeared in today’s Jordan Times The fast-approaching deadline to the 9-month face-to-face Palestinian-Israeli talks highlights the sense of urgency and fear that the April deadline might arrive without any breakthrough. Palestinians, who were burned in 1993 with a five-year interim agreement that translated into two decades of no progress in the […]