Archive for 'CF Interviews'
Language - a tool to transform different into dangerous
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Christian Porth, Daily Star, February 2, 2008
“If thought corrupts language,” the English author George Orwell wrote in his famous 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.” Alastair Crooke, […]
Posted: February 9th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islamists, Political Islam.
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Bottom-up peacebuilding in the Occupied Territories
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Aisling Byrne, Conflicts Forum, Beirut, November, 2007
Alastair Crooke, former special Mid-East adviser to European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, and adviser to the International Quartet, is the Co-director of Conflicts Forum. An edited version of this interview was published by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Al-Majdal, […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories.
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Middle East - behind the conflict (video)
Avi Lewis, from the Canadian television international affairs analysis program, On The Map, recently interviewed Conflicts Forum director, Alastair Crooke. The broadcast aired on CBC, June 14, 2007. To watch the whole interview, click the image below:
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Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Fatah, Hamas, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria.
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Should the West dialogue with Islamists?
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Abdullah Faliq, The Cordoba Foundation, October-December, 2006
“…what Muslims hate is the West’s monopoly on the socio-economic implementation of values such as justice, freedom, good governance, which all Muslims share. Muslims don’t believe simply that the West is the only model of the implementation of these values, and the only way you […]
Posted: February 18th, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islam and globalization, Modernity, Political Islam.
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Interview: The U.S. campaign to topple the Palestinian government
Al Jazeera interview with Alastair Crooke, January 24, 2007
“…to say that this person is moderate and therefore they are legitimate and other people therefore are extremists and can be isolated, and that we do not have to listen them and they can be excluded from the political process. This is the recipe for instability and […]
Posted: February 13th, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, CF Interviews, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians.
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Interview: Talking to terrorists
ABC Radio National (Australia) interview with Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, November 16, 2006
Alastair Crooke — The paradox is that most people ask us the question “are these people” — by which they mean the Islamist groups — “willing to talk?” and actually we find that it is they who are the ones that are […]
Posted: November 17th, 2006 under ABOUT CF, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Mark Perry.
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