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Toufic Haddad, co-author of Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on
Terror, and Palestine
correspondent for The Faster Times speaks in Jerusalem to Lia
Tarachansky of The Real News about
Israel’s “settlement freeze.” He says that accepting Israeli Prime Minister’s
offer to enter negotiations
simply because of this partial and temporary move would be political
suicide for the Palestinian
Authority. He speak of the future of Palestinian politics and the death of
the “peace process.”

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Toufic Haddad is a Palestinian-American writer. He is the co-author of Between the Lines: Readings in Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S ‘War on Terror’ (Haymarket Books, 2007, together with Tikva Honig-Parnass). He is a frequent commentator on Palestinian affairs. His writings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been featured in a wide collection of print and online media including The National, Al Jazeera, Journal of Palestine Studies, International Socialist Review, Jadaliyya, and Al Akhbar, among others. He is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Development Studies at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, where he is also finishing his Phd researching the political economy of neoliberal approaches to conflict resolution and state-building in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.