Archive for 'Bush Administration'
“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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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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Behind the Mansour Hotel bombing
From our Baghdad correspondent, August 1, 2007
The noontime bombing that killed a dozen Iraqis at Baghdad’s Mansour Melia Hotel on June 25 continues to reverberate through Iraq — and through the American military high command. This was not a “typical” bombing (if there is such a thing in Iraq): it was well-planned and executed and […]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Al Qaeda in Iraq, Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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Selling the Iraqi resistance
From our Baghdad correspondent, July 23, 2007
One of the more interesting — and quiet — visits to Washington was made recently by Sunni parliamentary leader Mohammed al-Dayni, who visited Capitol Hill during May to meet with Congressional leaders and administration officials. A Sunni member of the Iraqi parliament and head of the Sunni Iraqi National […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2007 under Al Qaeda, Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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