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Winners and losers in Gaza Daoud Kuttab Unlike times of tranquility, wartimes bring the best and worse in many people. Wars are also an opportunity for people to shine or to fail. The Israeli war on Gaza certainly has its winners and its losers, although the list could change and protagonists can leap from one…
NY Times Blog JANUARY 19, 2009, 12:04 PM Four Flaws in the Israeli Cease-Fire By DAOUD KUTTAB Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and former professor of journalism at Princeton University. He has been part of a continuing discussion in Room for Debate on the war in Gaza. While the Egyptian government has succeeded in…
It takes two to cease fire by Daoud Kuttab The decision by the Israeli cabinet to declare a unilateral cease-fire lacks three basic components: a partner, a monitor and a political process. Defense Minister Ehud Barak is famous for his saying that when talking about peace negotiations, it takes two to tango. The same principle…
By Ilan Ziv and Daoud Kuttab For over twenty years we have worked together documenting the struggle between our peoples with the goal of saving our humanity, with the belief in the sanctity of life and the power of the rule of law. If we have learned anything in our years of work on the…
Following appeared on the online version of the New York Times The Ace in Obama’s Pocket By Daoud Kuttab Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian journalist and former professor of journalism at Princeton University, joins our panel of analysts to discuss Israel’s war against Hamas, which entered its 18th day on Monday. The United States is the…
Following appeared in the Huffington Post.com Ten Myths about Gaza It is known that truth is the first casualty in wars. The current war on Gaza is no different. Below is a list of 10 myths perpetuated by Israel and repeated ad nauseum by many in the media. Myth # 1 Israel had no alternative…
To Gaza’s Victims, Politics Means Little My colleague and long-time friend Ayman Bardawil got a call from his family in Rafah. The house he was born and raised in was totally destroyed last week. His brother and family, who live in that house, were miraculously saved because one of his daughters had a cold and…
A well repeated Arab saying dealing with conflicts states: al bad’azlam, the initiator [of a conflict] is the wrong one. So if you are trying to figure out who is wrong in the current round of violence around Gaza all you have to do is figure out who started it. But the moment you begin…
Published in the Washington Post Has Israel Revived Hamas? By Daoud Kuttab Tuesday, December 30, 2008; A15 JERUSALEM — In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its southern cities, Israel appears to have given new life to the fledging Islamic movement in Palestine. For two years, the Islamic…
The following appeared in the Huffington Post Daoud Kuttab Posted December 14, 2008 | 12:25 PM (EST) Israel’s foreign minister Tzipi Livni raised many eyebrows when speaking to Israeli high school students this week. Her attempts to sound tough while advocating the two state solution backfired badly. Even her attempts to repair the damage continued…