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By Daoud Kuttab Shimon Peres will be remembered mostly for the same reason the assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is: both were architects of the Oslo Peace Accords and were awarded, along with Yasser Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize for this agreement. Both Rabin and Peres were hardened Israeli Zionists committed to the need…
By Daoud Kuttab The atmosphere at the Palestinian ministry was as cold as ice. News had come of the condolence statement issued by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the death of former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The press was asking for comments, but no one at the ministry wanted to talk to the press. A…
By Daoud Kuttab The world’s leading soccer association is under pressure by the world’s leading human rights organization to live up to its own rules and ethical guidelines. A well-researched study, which included aerial photos, by Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Sept. 25 for six clubs of the Israeli Football Association (IFA) to stop…