The 2024 Daoud and Salam Kuttab annual Newsletter

Bridge blues again

I was a bit hesitant about traveling by the Allenby bridge but at the last minute I decide to go. A few friends[…]

So, Gaza was occupied

By Daoud Kuttab For 37 years, Israel has consistently rejected Palestinians’ and the world view that the status of the areas its military took[…]

The myth of irreversibility

By Daoud Kuttab Ramallah – In the mid-80s Meron Benvenisti, an Israeli researcher on the West Bank and Gaza, came up with the[…]

My stolen car

It was the perfect kind of car, small enough to accommodate my bachelor life style in Palestine, new enough not to give me[…]

The Long Perspective From Gaza

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The unilateral Israeli decision to withdraw troops and evacuate settlers from the Gaza Strip has thrown a monkey wrench[…]

Live From Gaza: A New View of Israel

In the mid-80s Meron Benvenisti, an Israeli researcher on the West Bank and Gaza, came up with the term irreversibility when referring to[…]

Eyeless in Gaza

Thirty-eight years after Israeli troops rumbled into the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, real change on the ground[…]

Forward Forum … Mideast Peace Requires Withdrawal From Unilateralism

As much as some Palestinian groups would like to claim that Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza this week is a direct result of[…]

What next after Gaza pullout?

The withdrawal of Israeli troops and the evacuation of Jewish settlers from Gaza, after 38 years of occupation, is the most recent proof[…]

Gaza Strip confusion

In over 25 years of journalistic reporting, I have never witnessed more confusion in the Palestinian national (and Islamic) movement as I have[…]