PLO not buying Netanyahu’s ‘peace’ offerings - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab

Mar 30, 2015

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) attends a meeting with the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) central council in the West Bank City of Ramallah April 26, 2014. Abbas said on Saturday he was still ready to extend stalled peace talks with Israel, as long as it met his long-standing demands to free prisoners and halt building on occupied land. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3MPN5 — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) attends a meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization's Central Council in the West Bank City of Ramallah, April 26, 2014. — REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

An employee of Peace Now, an Israeli NGO that tracks and opposes Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, works near a placard at their offices in Tel Aviv January 31, 2016. The placard in Hebrew reads, "Love Israel. Against the occupation". Picture taken January 31, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RTX25Z92

Is the two-state solution dead?

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

A view of Gilo, a Jewish settlement on land Israel captured in 1967 and annexed to its Jerusalem municipality, is seen from the West Bank town of Beit Jala January 16, 2011. A plan to build 1,400 new homes for Jews in Gilo could be approved as early as next week by Israel's Jerusalem municipality, a city council member said on Sunday. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (POLITICS BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTXWMVX

Bethlehem Nun Calls For Bridges, Not Walls

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

A crane is seen next to homes in a Jewish settlement near Jerusalem known to Israelis as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim January 3, 2014. Israel on Friday published tenders for 1,400 new homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, days after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the region to push peace efforts with the Palestinians. Picture taken January 3, 2014. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION POLITICS) - RTX178IM

Abu Mazen's overlooked surprise concession on settlements

Geoffrey Aronson

Geoffrey Aronson

Sheikh Jarrah

European countries urge Israel to halt planned settlement expansion

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff