Archive for 'AUTHORS'
A mistaken case for Syrian regime change
Aisling Byrne
Article posted on Asia Times Online on 05 January 2012 and republished by Counterpunch in the USA.
“War with Iran is already here,” wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing “the combination of covert warfare and international pressure” being applied to Iran.
Although not mentioned, the “strategic prize” of the first stage of this war on […]
Posted: January 9th, 2012 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Democracy, Iran, Syria.
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The ‘great game’ in Syria
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on Asia Times Online, 22 October 2011
This summer, a senior Saudi official told John Hannah [1], former United States vice president Dick Cheney’s former chief-of-staff, that from the outset of the Syrian upheaval in March, the king has believed that regime change in Syria would be highly beneficial to Saudi interests: […]
Posted: October 26th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Obama administration, Syria.
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Unfolding the Syrian Paradox
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on Asia Times Online
Can Syria properly be understood as an example of a “pure” Arab popular revolution, an uprising of non-violent, liberal protest against tyranny that has been met only by repression? I believe this narrative to be a complete misreading, deliberately contrived to serve quite separate ambitions. The consequences of turning […]
Posted: July 27th, 2011 under AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Democracy, Syria.
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The Arab awakening and Syrian exceptionalism
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
Cleavage in political culture between the domestic and external could not have been better illustrated than in President Bashar Assad’s March 30 televised address to the Syrian people. Its style perturbed, and then called down almost universal disdain, externally — for being both insufficient and ill-judged. In Syria, where I was, […]
Posted: April 11th, 2011 under AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Syria.
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Permanent Temporariness
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on London Review of Books
It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which I was sitting flew open. In stalked a figure still dressed in a dark overcoat and scarf. He evidently could contain himself no longer. I was in Downing Street with […]
Posted: March 8th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Diplomacy, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians, War on terrorism.
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What prospect for reconciliation?
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on english.aljazeera.net
Enmity towards Hamas has been so systemized that it would require dismantling everything built by Abbas and the US.
Many may still ask about the prospects for national reconciliation; the publication of The Palestine Papers, however, starkly illuminates how this has become plainly impossible.
The Palestine Papers show that – for the leadership […]
Posted: January 31st, 2011 under AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Democracy, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians.
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