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2 unusual facts about Diana Buttu


Diana Buttu

In response to Fox News journalist Greg Jarrett's statement, in a July 2012 interview, that Israel had “launched its attack on Gaza because Hamas simply would not stop firing rockets into Israel” and that Hamas was thus responsible “for all of these terrible Palestinian deaths,” Buttu accused Jarrett of “blaming the victim,” claiming that “even when Hamas does not fire a single rocket...Israel continues to fire upon Gaza.”

In an NPR interview given early in her tenure as a PLO adviser, Buttu suggested it was the responsibility of the U.S. to solve the problem between Israel and Palestine.


Institute for Middle East Understanding

The names included, Samar Assad, Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, Diana Buttu, a Ramallah-based attorney and former advisor to Palestinian negotiators, Omar Dajani, a San Francisco-based law professor and former legal advisor to United Nations Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larson and Nadia Hijab, a Senior Fellow at the Washington, DC-based Institute for Palestine Studies.


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