Daoud Kuttab
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Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist. Born in Jerusalem in 1955, he has become one of the most prominent moderate voices among Palestinians. He is the director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University, and he is the founder and general director of AmmanNet, the Arab world's first internet radio station. He has been arrested by both Israelis and Palestinians and has won numerous international awards, including the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards, the Pen USA West Freedom to Write Award, and the Leipzeg Media Institute award. He is also on the International Press Institute's list of 50 Press Freedom Heroes.
Kuttab is a regular columnist for the Jordan Times, the Jerusalem Post, Amin.org and The Washington Post's PostGlobal segment.
He thinks that the "U.S. hegemony in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict" keeps on and regrets that Israel is still a domestic issue in the U.S. and states that American Israel Public Affairs Committee's strength hasn't weakened despite attempts by U.S. academics to expose them.
He believes the "40-year-old occupation of Palestine" is unjustified and calls for a more proactive U.S. role that can do what George H. W. Bush and James Baker III tried to do with the Yitzhak Shamir government and the Madrid Conference of 1991.
Perhaps, he said, the year 2007 might provide a small window of opportunity if a Palestinian national unity government is formed, the moderate Arab countries get serious, and Britain makes a real push along with its European partners for Ehud Olmert to answer for Israels "illegal occupation" and obstruction of genuine negotiations.[1]
