Did Hamas Cave-in for Practical or Financial Reasons or Both?
By Daoud Kuttab After months of hibernation, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict seems to be getting more attention of late. Despite the volatility of the situation in Syria and Egypt the most recent agreement reached in the Qatari capital received a lot of media attention. It also seems to have touched a number of political nerves, especially […]
Text of my interview on NPR re Doha reconciliation
Copyright 2012 National Public Radio (R) All Rights Reserved National Public Radio SHOW: All Things Considered 09:00 PM EST February 8, 2012 Wednesday 737 words Hamas, Palestinians Sign Unity Agreement Daoud Kuttab ROBERT SIEGEL: Events in Syria have also influenced the Palestinians. The external leadership of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which runs the Gaza […]
Myth Debunked: Palestinian Textbooks Don’t Teach Hatred
By Daoud Kuttab Apologists for Israel’s continued occupation and control over Palestinian lives have long contended Israel is more interested in peace than the Palestinians. One exaggerated argument, repeatedly put forward to justify military rule, is that Palestinians teach their children to hate Jews. Politicians in the U.S., especially during election campaigns, find that […]
The Many titles of a man
following appeared in the Jordan Times today The Many titles of a man by Daoud Kuttab Unlike his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, the current Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is not known for hoarding power or being authoritarian. Abbas will most likely end his revolutionary/professional career in retirement and not in a direct struggle with his enemies. […]
Open season on Palestinians
following appeared this morning in the Jordan Times by Daoud Kuttab | Feb 02,2012 Apologists for Israel’s continued occupation and control over Palestinian lives have long contended that Israel is more interested in peace than the Palestinians. One exaggerated argument, repeatedly put forward to justify military rule, is that Palestinians teach their children to hate […]
More illegal acts
The following appeared in Jordan Times More illegal acts by Daoud Kuttab | Jan 26,2012 | 22:34 Twenty-seven Palestinian parliamentarians who won in democratically organised elections are held behind Israeli bars without charge or trial. Their sin is that they dared believe in an electoral process that was hailed by democratic countries as the proper […]
The Next Battleground for the Palestinians – Areas C
By Daoud Kuttab A few months ago, a group of six Palestinian residents of Ramallah decided to take a bus ride to Jerusalem. This was no ordinary ride. The Israeli government-funded bus they boarded links West Bank Jewish settlements to Jerusalem and Israel. The trip on this settler-only bus that travels on Palestinian roads […]
Palestinian and Israeli Negotiators Merely Shadow Boxing
By Daoud Kuttab The Palestinian Israeli meetings that took place in Amman Tuesday and are to be repeated next week took many by surprise. After all, the Palestinian leadership has been resisting for months responding to tremendous pressures to go back to negotiations without conditions. Furthermore it has become conventional wisdom that as the […]
WAR ON GAZA– three years later
by Daoud Kuttab Three years ago the Israeli army initiated a major military offensive against the people of the Gaza strip with the aim of stopping the shelling from Gaza and the release of one of their soldiers that was held in the strip. Over 1,400 Palestinians, many of them women and children, were […]
Will Jerusalem Cause a Third Intifada?
Daoud Kuttab This may be a journalistic hunch, but I have a feeling that we are about to witness an explosion in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this time again over Jerusalem. In 2000, a Palestinian-Israeli human rights film festival took place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Nazareth. The concluding event, during which the name […]