Archive for March, 2007
Reviewing Hamas’s first year in government
Conflicts Forum, March, 2007
Since Hamas achieved a stunning victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006, Conflicts Forum has been closely monitoring the subsequent shifts in the political landscape. In the wake of the recent Mecca Agreement for the formation of a Palestinian national unity government, now is a good time to review some […]
Posted: March 13th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Hamas, Mark Perry.
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How the Saudis stole a march on the U.S.
By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, Asia Times, March 5, 2007
Palestinian Authority advisers Saeb Erakat and Yasser Abed Rabbo arrived in Washington at the beginning of February confused and uncertain. Their mandate from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, was to talk to State Department officials about US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s upcoming […]
Posted: March 5th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Diplomacy, Fatah, Hamas, Mark Perry, Mecca Agreement, Middle East, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia.
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From rebel movement to political party: the case of the Islamic Resistance Movement
By Alastair Crooke, Director, Conflicts Forum, March 4, 2007
The view held by many in the West that transformation from an armed resistance movement to political party should be linear, should be preceded by a renunciation of violence, should be facilitated by civil society and brokered by moderate politicians has little reality for the case of […]
Posted: March 4th, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Ceasefires, Fatah, Hamas, Intifada, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians, Political Islam.
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