Archive for 'Democracy'
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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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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Islamic Visions of the Outcome of the Recent Arab Revolutions
The second Policy Paper written by Sheikh Chafiq Jaradi, General Director of the Institute of Sapiential Knowledge in Beirut, exclusively for Conflicts Forum.
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Posted: April 11th, 2011 under Democracy, Diplomacy, Egypt, Islam and globalization, Islamists, Middle East, POLICY PAPERS.
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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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Misunderstanding Israeli motives
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on english.aljazeera.net
Al Jazeera’s release of The Palestine Papers helps to make clear why there is no Palestinian state. It illuminates a key flaw in Palestinian and western understanding of Israeli thinking. It is this flaw which helps explain why a state has failed to emerge – despite the many, many opportunities in […]
Posted: January 25th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Democracy, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Media, Palestinians.
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Liberty leads the people, even in Tehran
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, June 18, 2009
We in the “the West” have a special place in our traditions for anniversaries. We celebrate two important ones just now. It was twenty years ago that thousands of children arrived in China’s Tiananmen Square to petition their leaders for greater rights. They built a papier-mache statue of […]
Posted: June 20th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Iran, Mark Perry.
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