Daoud Kuttab

Palestine, media, Jordan, community radio, online journalism

  • Report Calls for New EU Approach To Israel, Peace Process

      By Daoud Kuttab Europe, Israel’s No. 1 trading partner, is once again trying to rethink its Israel policies in light of the latter’s failure to facilitate the two-state solution. The European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) has issued a powerful document aimed at guiding member states in dealing with Israel, Palestinians and Arabs. Entitled…

  • Fatah Would Accept Land Swaps With Israel

      By Daoud Kuttab The statement made by the Qatari prime and foreign minister in Washington in favor of adding a clause to the Arab Peace Initiative allowing for “land swaps”  caught many off guard and drew a largely negative reaction in Palestinian and Arab circles. On the surface, the statement by Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr…

  • Bethlehem Nun Calls For Bridges, Not Walls

      By Daoud Kuttab After a seven-year legal battle, the Silesian nuns convent located in the Palestinian town of Beit Jala lost an appeal on April 24 against the building of the Israeli wall on its land. The latest route of the wall will place the convent on the Palestinian side of the wall, and its companion Cremisan Catholic…

  • Mohammed Assaf Carries Palestinian Hopes

      By Daoud Kuttab When Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad broke his silence following the acceptance by President Mahmoud Abbas of his resignation, the topic he chose to discuss was not overtly political. Using his Facebook page, Salam Fayyad wrote the following words: “I call on all Palestinians to support the Palestinian artistMohammed Assaf, who is…

  • Israeli Racism Codified by Law

      By Daoud Kuttab The state of Israel prides itself on being a democratic state in which all its citizens are treated equally under the law. Yet a closer examination shows the strange and convoluted ways in which laws are used to defend some clearly racist practices. A case in point is the practice of…

  • Birth pains of democratic politics

    The following appeared in Jordan times By Daoud Kuttab After months of consultations a new/old government has finally received the vote of confidence. The 82 for, 66 against vote from Parliament gives Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour’s second government the confidence to carry out its programme, which includes removing subsidies on electricity tariffs and dealing with…

  • Palestinian Women Set Back By Conservative Society

      By Daoud Kuttab The image will remain engraved in many people’s memory about the first intifada. A Palestinian woman dressed in a skirt and blouse holds here high heel shoes in one hand and throws a stone on members of the occupying Israeli forces with the other. Clearly the image is not so much…

  • Free movement should be `guaranteed immediately’

    Following appeared in the Jordan Times. By Daoud Kuttab This week, hundreds of Palestinians attempting to return home using the only crossing point allowed to them, the King Hussein Bridge, found themselves stuck for hours and hours at the bridge. It appears that Israeli bridge officials were not ready to accept the Palestinians, which included…

  • Israel Responds to Obama’s Generosity With Nastiness

      By Daoud Kuttab Following appeared in the Jordan Times and Huffington Post also check out these other stories http://forward.com/articles/175016/salam-fayyad-doomed-by-israel-and-palestinian-enem/?p=all http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/salam-fayyad-resignation-abbas-replacement.html Israel may say that it wants peace, but the reality has become clear. Once U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry left the region, Israel felt protected by the charm handed…

  • Israel, Arabs Reverse Roles On Peace and War

      By Daoud Kuttab “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” So states the preamble to the constitution of UNESCO. I refer to this passage in light of the Israeli government recently dismissing the efforts of US President Barack Obama and his…