Jordan radio station informing the community
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCE By DALE GAVLAK ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER AMMAN, Jordan — The breathless caller was desperate, with nowhere else to turn:”Help me to get a Bedouin and his camels and sheep out of my street,”he pleaded.”The herd nearly attacked two neighborhood boys.”
The day I met the King
November 8, 2006 When this day started I had no idea that by day’s end I would have shaken hands (twice) with the King of Jordan and even ask him a question. The news all over tv was the children and women killed in the early morning hours when Israeli missiles hit their homes […]
Bread or Democracy
Daoud Kuttab International Herald Tribune FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2006 Former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, finding himself in a bind during sensitive negotiations with the Palestinians in 1996, put forth a new condition: Israel – reputed to be “the only democracy in the Middle East” – would trade land for peace only when the Palestinians practiced […]
Stripping Israel of Excuses
by Daoud Kuttab October 19, 2006 Edition 39 Volume 4 The Arab League’s peace initiative came some time after the eruption of the Aqsa intifada and followed a plan conceived of by then Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The plan was actually leaked to the NY Times’ Tom Friedman in advance over a private […]
How I broke down under interrogation
October 19, 2006 I have tried for years to avoid traveling via the Tel Aviv airport, usually I try to leave out of Amman. But today I had to be in Palestine till Wednesday night and the only way to attend the conference I was invited to speak at was to leave from Ben […]
Leadership needed to prevent chaos, internal fighting
Daoud Kuttab Palestinians living in the occupied territories are clutching at straws these days. The one-month public servants strike which crippled all public institutions and kept hundreds of thousands of Palestinian students in the streets does not seem any closer to a resolution.
The day I beat the (VIP) monopoly
October 5th 2006 Jordan River Crossing Point It was not my intention or my plans, but when the dust settled, I had finally succeeded in beating the ugly monopoly system on the Jordan river crossing point called VIP. It all started when I called the Israeli manager of the bridge to find out […]
How I smuggled a “terrorist” into Israel and the US?
By Daoud Kuttab An editorial note before I answer this question, I need to make a note that the word terrorist is put within inverted comas signifying that this is not my description. To begin with I have to tell you the story of Haroon Abu Arra. I met Haroon in 1996. He was a […]
Starting with the Individual
Daoud Kuttab Four and-a-half years ago I found myself in a difficult position. This week,  the circle has been closed. But I am afraid that I can’t say that I am pleased with the results. Israeli troops decided that a five-storey building in Ramallah, belonging to Al Quds University, was needed for their security. They […]
MY blog on Pope in washington post and reactions to it
Five Reactions: Clearing the Way for Dialogue by Daoud Kuttab Amman, Jordan – I saw this problem brewing. On Al Jazeera, the Pope’s speech was distorted in the news bulletins through scrolling text on the bottom of the screen where it was repeated ad naseaueum, taken out of context and exaggerated. I then noticed five […]