Archive for June, 2007
Our second biggest mistake in the Middle East
By Alastair Crooke, London Review of Books, June 28, 2007
‘The situation in Gaza is dangerous, and the danger is that Hamas will take over and turn Gaza into “Hamastan” – into a kingdom of thugs, murderers, terrorists, poverty and despair.’ This was the reaction of Ephraim Sneh, Israel’s deputy defence minister, to Hamas’s seizure of […]
Posted: June 28th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, Palestinians.
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The Palestinian question: What now?
By Mark Perry, Conflicts Forum, June 18, 2007
In “Gaza: Another Mess Made in U.S.,” Rootless Cosmopolitan’s Tony Karon likens the defeat of Mohammad Dahlan’s U.S.-backed Preventive Security Services to an earlier American intervention from decades ago: the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco. His analysis is brilliant, but in truth Karon may have understated the breadth […]
Posted: June 18th, 2007 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mark Perry, Mecca Agreement, Occupied Territories, Palestinians.
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The political implications of the Hamas electoral victory from Islamist, regional and Western perspectives
A Conflicts Forum conference sponsored by the European Commission, Beirut, March 2007
Conference Report, Part Two
In March of 2007, Conflicts Forum conducted a workshop on the political implications of the Hamas electoral victory from Islamist, regional and Western perspectives. The conference, held in Beirut, Lebanon, presented speakers from the region, including Islamist scholars and leaders, those […]
Posted: June 18th, 2007 under Bush Administration, CF CONFERENCE, Diplomacy, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, Middle East, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia.
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