Archive for August, 2007
Nasrallah’s speech marking the end of the July war
On August 14, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech marking the end of the July 2006 war. The following is the text of the speech carried by Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV. The text is reprinted here with permission from and thanks to Mideastwire.
Peace be upon you as you meet in […]
Posted: August 25th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Hezbollah, Israel, Israel-Hezbollah war, Middle East.
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Talking to terrorists
By Alastair Crooke, BBC Radio 4, July 15, 2007
At the beginning of the decade I spent a few years in the Middle East, both as an advisor to Javier Solana — the EU’s High Representative for Foreign & Security Policy — and on the staff of the commission set up by former senator George Mitchell […]
Posted: August 24th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah.
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The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam
By Henry Siegman, London Review of Books*, August 19, 2007
When Ehud Olmert and George W. Bush met at the White House in June, they concluded that Hamas’s violent ousting of Fatah from Gaza – which brought down the Palestinian national unity government brokered by the Saudis in Mecca in March – had presented the world […]
Posted: August 19th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians.
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Washington in Lebanon and Palestine: fatal manipulation
By Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, openDemocracy*, August 14, 2007
Many parallels are currently being drawn between the crises in Palestine and Lebanon. A number focus on the most visible similarity: the “two-state, two-government” scenario which has become a reality in Palestine (with different authorities in charge in Gaza and the West Bank) and threatens to do the same […]
Posted: August 14th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Gaza, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Mecca Agreement, Middle East, Neocons, Palestinians, Political Islam.
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