Day: November 20, 2016

By Daoud Kuttab The date Nov. 15, 1988, is a special one for Palestinians. On that day, the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestinians’ parliament in exile, convened in the Algerian capital of Algiers and adopted the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. It was almost one year into the relatively nonviolent intifada that shook up Israel and the world. PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi told Al-Monitor how the declaration…

Prominent Palestinian politicians and economists in the Palestinian territories appear to be totally unfazed by threats that the Republicans in both houses of Congress and in the Donald Trump administration might cut off aid to the Palestinian government. Mustafa Barghouti, an elected Palestinian legislator, told Al-Monitor that the United States has already reduced aid to…

By Daoud Kuttab Few Israelis understood why their hard-line defense minister would even talk about a seaport and an airport in Gaza. In an Oct. 24 interview with the widely circulated Palestinian daily Al-Quds, Avigdor Liberman offered the formula for a possible Gazan port and airport. “If they make the decision to stop digging tunnels,…