Israel targets Hamas-Fatah unity in Gaza
By Daoud Kuttab After his July 10 speech at the UN Security Council, Israel’s representative Ron Prosor said, “It’s time for the international community to right the wrong of the embrace between Hamas and Fatah. … Unity does not equal impunity.† While Israel repeats that it is conducting a defensive war to stop the rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, […]
Fatah leader: US position on Gaza ‘shameful’
By Daoud Kuttab In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, Amin Maqboul, secretary-general of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, blasted the US position on Israel’s war on Gaza. According to Maqboul, “The US position is shameful. They are giving a green light to Israel to attack our people under the guise that Israel has a right to self-defense.†Maqboul stressed that Palestinians are united […]
Is War on Gaza Based on an Israeli Fabrication?
By Daoud Kuttab When three Israelis went missing three weeks ago, and before any evidence was made available, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on his own to pin responsibility on the Islamist movement Hamas. He and his political and military cohorts continued with this fabrication by rounding up hundreds of Hamas activists and pro-Hamas […]
War on Gaza based on a lie
Following appeared in the Jordan Times Newspaper By Daoud Kuttab When three Israelis went missing three weeks ago, and before any evidence was made available, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on his own to pin responsibility on the Islamist movement Hamas. He and his political and military cohorts continued with this fabrication by rounding up […]
Video technology exposing Israeli violations in the West Bank
By Daoud Kuttab Closed-circuit cameras have always been part of Israel’s high-tech approach to security, but in recent months, the presence of cameras and Palestinians’ use of cell phones have come back to haunt the Israeli security establishment. A security camera perched on top of the store owned by Hussein Abu Khdeir provided key evidence in the […]
Israeli settlers continue attacks on Palestinians
By Daoud Kuttab The Rev. Atallah Issawi, pastor of a Protestant church in the West Bank village of Aboud, and his wife, Hilda, were driving home the night of July 5 after attending a wedding in Ramallah. Issawi’s church, along with an excellent private school in their predominantly Christian village, had been established by missionaries from the […]
Israeli policies in Jerusalem spur unrest
By Daoud Kuttab The Palestinian film director had no idea that her production was a security threat. Emtiaz al-Moghrabi had produced a film — “Noor” (Light) — about the problem of drug abuse among the youth of East Jerusalem. The documentary, which was screened in Ramallah and other Palestinian cities, was to be shown in […]
World Cup and the digital switchover
Following appeared in the Jordan Times Newspaper If all goes as planned, this could be the last World Cup that the general public in most Arab countries, including Jordan and Palestine, will not be able to watch for free. According to FIFA laws and regulations, TV broadcasting of the game should not be monopolised by any […]
Israel opens gates to collective reprisals for youth murders
By Daoud Kuttab Twelve days of constant media coverage, often 24-hour live reporting and repeated accusations from the very top of the Israeli government of the involvement of Hamas in the kidnapping and killing of the three Israeli youths, have reached the level of hysteria. The Israeli army, well-armed Jewish settlers and even members of the press have taken […]
Kidnapping prompts Palestinian prisoners to end hunger strike
By Daoud Kuttab Sixty-three days after they declared an open-ended hunger strike, some 75 Palestinian administrative detainees announced on June 25 that they have suspended their hunger strike. Few details have emerged, but the Palestinian prisoners succeeded in exposing the injustice of administrative detention without putting a stop to this undemocratic practice. No written agreement has been signed, a point Israel […]