The 2024 Daoud and Salam Kuttab annual Newsletter

Debunking Israeli myths about its war on Lebanon

By: Daoud Kuttab * It is an accepted theory that truth is the first casualty of war. In the present Israeli war on[…]

The attack on Lebanon has produced strange Role Reversals

  By Daoud Kuttab The irony to the present Israeli Lebanese war is in its role reversals. Hizbullah which is called by Israel[…]

PERSPECTIVE NARRATIVES

Daoud Kuttab After 50 years of fighting, Palestinians and Israelis seem to have finally found the one thing that can really get the[…]

The problem with arrogance

By Daoud Kuttab The Palestinian-Israeli conflict presents a unique case study in asymmetry and arrogance of power. The status of this conflict today[…]

2006 – Breakthroughs yes, but no peace

By Daoud Kuttab Jerusalem. – At the close of last year, I was commissioned by an international NGO called Search for Common Ground[…]

The need for a referendum

Daoud Kuttab The assignment the editors at Al Quds Educational television gave their reporter seemed simple: Go out and assess the public’s reaction[…]

Who will pave the Qalandia road?

Daoud Kuttab Until a few days ago, the sign stood majestically on the broken up Ramallah-Jerusalem road near the Qalandia refugee camp. With[…]

Solution for Hamas- Focus on local issues

by  Daoud Kuttab For 39 years of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, Palestinians have been able to survive through a variety of[…]

AmmanNet wins Gold Medal from Pan Arab Media Awards

AmmanNet, the Arab world’s first Internet radio station, won the gold medal at the 2006 Pan Arab Media Awards. The ceremony, in its[…]

Hamas’ predicament — partly political naiveté?

By Daoud Kuttab Two months before the Palestinian election, I met in Ramallah with Hassan Yousef, a senior West Bank leader of Hamas.[…]