Archive for 'Bush Administration'
America’s victory in Lebanon
By Mark Perry, Bitterlemons, June 12, 2008
The prime minister of His Majesty’s Government, the rotund Lord North–reputed (falsely) to be the bastard son of George III–once sniffed to his cabinet that if it were not for the interference of France, the American colonists would surely return to the loving arms of their mother country. He […]
Posted: June 20th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Mark Perry.
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From Mitchell to Annapolis and Beyond: Thoughts on the American Role in Palestinian-Israeli Peacemaking
Remarks of Frederic C. Hof, The Palestine Center of the Jerusalem Fund, March 20, 2008
Fred Hof, a keen Middle East observer and former member of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, presented a paper on the current Israeli-Palestinian situation, “From Mitchell to Annapolis and Beyond: Thoughts on the American Role in Palestinian-Israeli Peacemaking” at the Palestine […]
Posted: April 1st, 2008 under Annapolis Conference, Bush Administration, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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[PAL - ah - STIN -ians]
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, February 21, 2008
While it may be difficult to remember, George W. Bush was once considered a debater who could match wits with the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry. This judgment was the result, at least in part, of Bush’s uncanny ability to transform claims that he was stupid […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2008 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Mark Perry, Middle East.
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Nasrallah forecasts the prospect of coming conflict
On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. 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.
“Esteemed scholars, brothers and sisters…I would like to […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria.
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“Follow Us Not Them” - The Ramallah Model: Washington’s Palestinian Failure
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Geoffrey Aronson, November, 2007
George Bush’s “vision” of a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on the supremacy of the “Ramallah model” over the “Gaza model.” U.S. policy intends that the advantages championed by Ramallah in negotiations with Israel and the economic revival enabled by international assistance will “strengthen Abu […]
Posted: December 17th, 2007 under Bush Administration, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, MONOGRAPHS, Palestinians, West Bank.
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Ticking clocks and ‘accidental’ war
By Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, October 14, 2007. (An edited version of this article appeared in the October edition of US/ME Policy Brief, US/Middle East Project.)
Whilst Washington looks at the Iranian prospects through the prism of a binary, to bomb or to acquiesce decision, facing President Bush over the remainder of his presidency, the actors […]
Posted: October 14th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East, Syria.
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