Daoud Kuttab

Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism

  • Is the two-state solution dead?

    By Daoud Kuttab The possibility of a game-changing series of Israeli settlements east of Jerusalem has raised alarm bells in various departments of the Palestinian government. The area in question, commonly referred to as E1, threatens to physically cut off from the north and the south of the West Bank from one another.  Palestinian worries were…

  • How Damascus Gate became the symbol of the intifada

    By Daoud Kuttab When Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief William Booth wanted to write a column about the recent violence in Jerusalem, he went to the most obvious location — Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. There he found exactly whom he sought to interview, but he also found jittery Israeli security officers. What transpired Feb. 16 is detailed in a statement of protest by…

  • 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…

  • A bad deal on Syria

    By Daoud Kuttab A truce reached at the Munich Security Conference last week requires halting the fight in blood-soaked Syria within a week. We have yet to see whether the commitment to a political solution is genuine. The Russians have shown no sign of slowing down their lethal air campaign on Aleppo. Sceptics suspect that Russian…

  • Reconciliation is measured by results

            By Daoud Kuttab For the first time in years, Palestinian reconciliation talks have not received the usual high-calibre media coverage, not even in the Palestinian media. The low level of coverage might be a good thing. The deeply split parties Fateh and Hamas know that their credibility has been eroded by…

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