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By Daoud Kuttab No sooner had Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas signed letters of accession to 15 international treaties than Israel began spinning various myths to explain how this came to be. Israeli officials and commentators were in shock while trying to justify how their Palestinian partner could do something without Israel’s prior approval. Abbas appears to have caught…
By Daoud Kuttab “Brother Murad, I want to say something to my brother in jail,†says a female voice. “Go ahead,â€Â Murad al-Sabi replies warmly. “My dear brother Sameh, I’m sorry no one was able to come to see you. The Israelis didn’t give your brothers permission. I was supposed to see you today, but the Israelis turned me…
Following appeared in the Jordan Times By Daoud Kuttab Modern technological development has brought with it the term multitasking, a term that replaced the popular “Can you chew and walk at the same timeâ€. Palestinian negotiators are now facing the tough challenge of applying to join various UN agencies while, at the same time, agreeing,…
By Daoud Kuttab It is not clear whether it was by design or by accident that there is a one-month period between the scheduled date of the fourth Palestinian prisoner release by Israel and the end of the nine-month Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Regardless, Palestinians recognized that the month of April provided them with a unique opportunity to be unshackled from the commitments…
By Daoud Kuttab The delay of the release of the fourth tranche of Palestinian prisoners and Israel’s bait that it will do so only if the Palestinians agree to extend the talks has failed to get a bite from Palestinian negotiators. The Palestinians have repeatedly said that the agreement at the start of the nine-month negotiations was…
By Daoud Kuttab Modern technological development has brought with it the term multitasking, a term that replaced the popular “Can you chew and walk at the same time.” Palestinian negotiators are now facing the tough challenge of applying to join various UN agencies while, at the same time, agreeing, to continue peace talks until the end of…
By Daoud Kuttab AMMAN, Jordan — Hugh Robertson, Britain’s minister of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, has opposed calls to arm the Syrian rebels, instead insisting that all sides need to return to the negotiating table. “Generally speaking if you want to end a war, arming both sides is not the way to do it,†he…
By Daoud Kuttab When Palestinian leaders agreed to suspend their efforts to join various United Nations agencies last summer, the United States assured them that all 104 long-term Palestinian prisoners held by Israel would be released. This was not the first time that the United States had made such a promise. At the 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh summit, attended…
By Daoud Kuttab A leading Palestinian official has said that the end of March, rather than the end of April, could be the date that the Palestinian leadership moves to join United Nations agencies. “Our agreement was clear,†Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah’s Central Committee, told Al-Monitor in an exclusive interview. “In return for Israel releasing all…
By Daoud Kuttab A search is on among Christian evangelists to find a new theology that can take the place of the discredited dispensational theology, which many are unable to defend in light of the realities on the ground. The most critiqued part of dispensationalist theology is blindly assigning support for the state of Israel in the…