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Israel’s ‘absurd’ Jerusalem map
          By Daoud Kuttab It has been proven true over the years that victors write the history. Nowhere is this fact more obvious than in Jerusalem, where Israelis are trying unsuccessfully to rewrite centuries-old history. By changing facts on the ground the Israelis are desperately trying to claim…
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Palestinian PM says he is ‘bitterly disappointed’ in US
By Daoud Kuttab Since being appointed Palestinian prime minister in June 2013, Rami Hamdallah has run a tight economic ship, earning him praise from Christoph Duenwald, the local representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Hamdallah proudly showed Al-Monitor a Feb. 11 IMF statement acknowledging the reduction of the Palestinian deficit to nearly 1% of gross domestic product (GDP).  Praise from the IMF aside, Hamdallah said, “As prime…
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Tax havens and journalistic work
By Daoud Kuttab Some five years ago, a lawyer working for the Panama-based Mossak Fonseca leaked a trove of documents exposing the identity of the owners of a large number of offshore companies registered in Jersey, the British Islands and Luxemburg. This massive leak led to the German government’s closing three banks it deemed had…
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Nowhere to run: Palestine marathoners race on short track
By Daoud Kuttab For the fourth year in a row, Bethlehem hosted a spring marathon. Nearly 4,400 participants, including foreigners and local Palestinians, ran, walked or pushed baby strollers in the Palestine Marathon on April 1 in a festive atmosphere. Â To finish the full marathon, the runners had to complete two laps of a 21-kilometer…
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Is Israel reviving this 50-year-old land plan?
By Daoud Kuttab In a March 18 statement, the Land Defense Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) reintroduced to political discussion terminology no longer often heard. In the statement, the PLO accused right-wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu of reviving theAllon Plan, so named after the late Labor Party Minister Yigal Allon.  The Allon Plan, developed shortly after Israel began its occupation of Palestinian lands in 1967, proposed that…
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Jordan’s way of dealing with terrorists
             By Daoud Kuttab After every horrific act of violent extremism we are inundated with right-wing incitement against followers of a major religion and, often from the West, with calls to use the Israeli approach in combating terrorism. Very little effort is made by pundits to…
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