Archive for December, 2006
The Middle East’s new map
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, December 21, 2006
In 1919, the world humbly bore the loss of one of its most imaginative diplomats, when 39-year-old Mark Sykes (the “6th baronet”) succumbed to the Spanish flu in his well-appointed Paris hotel room. Sykes died a happy man, having created (with his boon buddy Francoise Georges-Picot), a “New […]
Posted: December 21st, 2006 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Europe, Mark Perry, Middle East.
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The Martial Plan
By Mark Perry, December 18, 2006
Washington’s liberal, progressive, Democrat-oriented, anti-Bush newspaper — the Washington Post — has weighed in on a prospective war against Iran. They’re all for it.
If you don’t believe me, it is worth reading the lead editorial in the Post’s December 16 edition, entitled “A Mideast Counteroffensive.” The Post takes its lead […]
Posted: December 18th, 2006 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Iran, Mark Perry, Middle East.
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If the U.S. should talk to Iran, why shouldn’t it talk to Hamas?
Paul Woodward, December 7, 2006
James Baker threw down the gauntlet to President Bush yesterday when he commended the Iraq Study Group report as “probably the only bipartisan report he’s going to get.” The White House has an alternative in the works but by the time their back-up review comes out, I doubt that it will […]
Posted: December 7th, 2006 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Iran, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians.
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Hamas - democratic government or terrorist organization?
On November 29, 2006, Mark Perry, co-director of Conflicts Forum, took part in a debate in New York hosted by Intelligence Squared US.
“A democratically elected Hamas is still a terrorist organization,” was the motion under debate. Speaking in favor of the motion were Steven A. Cook, a Mideast expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, […]
Posted: December 6th, 2006 under DISCUSSION, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mark Perry, Palestinians.
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