Gas and the people of Jordan
By Daoud Kuttab After 90 minutes of powerful anti-Israeli speeches by 18 members of Parliament, Deputy Speaker Mustapha Amawi called the session over because of lack of quorum. The speakers were incensed by the fact that Jordan and the American Noble Energy Company signed a letter of intent to import gas from the Israeli Leviathan […]
Arab Knesset members punished for helping their constituency
By Daoud Kuttab AMMAN — Jamal Zahalka has been a member of the Israeli Knesset in good standing for 13 years. He was first elected to the 16th Israeli legislature in 2003 and has been regularly re-elected since.  But the Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset is now barred from speaking for two months in the Knesset plenary or […]