Category: Articles

From Madrid to Annapolis

Published in the Daily Princetonian  Tuesday, December 4, 2007 By Daoud Kuttab Guest Columnist     As Palestinian and Israeli leaders were meeting in the Annapolis Naval Base last week for yet another attempt at peacemaking, I remembered how my journalistic career led me to cover the Madrid peace conference back in 1991. I vividly remember how […]

A civilized way to fight terror

following is a chapter in a book published by Hoover Daoud Kuttab  It might seem like a contradiction to pose the question of howthe United States can deal with international terror in a civilizedway, but there are many nonviolent things that can bedone short of, or alongside, violent responses. To understandwhat these might be, we […]

Unpublished letter to the Chicago Tribune

Your editorial “This Time?” published on November 28  misrepresented the Palestinian point of view. Your editorial quotes unspecified reports that Palestinian negotiators didn’t want to refer to Israel as a Jewish sate because “that might undercut the Palestinian’s right to return to Israel.”

defending Finkelstein

following is my letter to the editor in the Daily Princetonian    Regarding ‘A bizarre and unsupported argument’ (Monday, Nov. 19, 2007):     Seffy Muller ’08 thinks it bizarre that, in his lecture, Norman Finkelstein “reduced the Palestinian Israeli conflict to the international legality and historic fact.” So if he is not supposed to talk about these rather […]

NPR interview re Annapolis

my interview with Chicago’s NPR public radio regarding the Annapolis conference http://chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=16052

The other half of the peace process

By Daoud Kuttab AMERICAN officials usually spend enormous energy highlighting the “process” in the Middle East “peace process.” Only in the last 18 months of a second term president or following a military engagement in the Middle East does the United States actually start to concern itself with “peace.”This pattern seems to be holding true […]

US national security means no settlement activities in Palestine

By Daoud Kuttab Palestinians are facing a dilemma in regards to the upcoming Annapolis Arab-Israeli peace conference, or meeting as American officials prefers to call it. The dilemma is whether to participate in yet another process that has so far produced little tangible

Outgoing Jordan cabinet rejects Zarqa Community radio license

The government rejected a petition to grant a local radio license for the third biggest city of Jordan, Zarqa.  In one of its last decision the outgoing Jordanian cabinet rejected the application by AmmanNet to set up a community radio station that will not broadcast news or politics.

unpublished letter to NY times

Deeds and not words are the key to any argument Leslie H. Gelb fails the same test of “backing up their premise” that he sets for professors Mearsheimer & Walt. In  “Dual Loyalties,” ( NY Times September 23rd Book Review of “The Israel lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy)  he denies the power of the ‘lobby’ […]

A minimum strategic goal

A minimum strategic goal by Daoud Kuttab In all previous attempts at negotiations with Israel, Palestinians have never made any real breakthrough. Progress has only been made on procedural or superficial issues, even if expectations were always raised unreasonably high, which in turn created exaggerated hopes for the peace process. This has been the case […]