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Iran and the end of Deference
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on Middle East Channel, foreignpolicy.com, June 2010
The additional sanctions which the Security Council imposed on Iran earlier this month, and the additional sanctions which the United States Congress passed last Thursday, make no sense in terms of policy coherence. No one really believes sanctions will force a change in Iranian […]
Posted: June 29th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Iran.
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The Shifting Sands of State Power in the Middle East
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Washington Quarterly, June 2010
In his commendably candid interview with Time in January 2010, President Barack Obama noted that managing politics in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict “is just really hard.” The president, however, might well have been speaking about the Middle East as a whole. It is not just the […]
Posted: June 29th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration.
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After the Israeli flotilla incident, Turkey is the new Palestinian champion
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times
June 3, 2010
Beirut, Lebanon
“This is language that we have not heard since the time of Gamal Abdul Nasser.” Thus wrote the influential chief editor of Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fiery response to the Israeli […]
Posted: June 11th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians.
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Imposing Middle East Peace
Henry Siegman
Report published by the Norwegian Peace-Building Centre
The continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank seems to have finally locked in the permanence of Israel’s colonial project. Israel has crossed the threshold from the Middle East’s only democracy to the only “apartheid regime” in the Western world. But outside intervention may offer the […]
Posted: January 28th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Europe, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obama administration, Palestinians.
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Giving ‘engagement’ a bad name: Obama’s Iran policy at one year
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
The first anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration as President of the United States came this week. The sharpest criticism of Obama’s first-year record on domestic and economic affairs came from the Nobel prize-winning economist, New York Times columnist, and Princeton professor Paul Krugman.
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Posted: January 26th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Diplomacy, Iran, Obama administration.
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The Experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran – The Contemporary Debate
Sheikh Chafiq Jeradeh
The Islamic Revolution in Iran has come to be defined for many by the concept of Wilayat al-Faqih (the Jurist’s Guardianship), instituted by Imam Khomeini - May Allah Sanctify His Soul (MASHS). Wilayat al-Faqih represents an Islamic concept that is based on the values of the Sufi-Irfan idea that it is possible […]
Posted: January 18th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Iran.
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