Archive for 'Dialogue'
Terror and truth
By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, June 1, 2008
Sir Hugh Orde speaks rarely heard truth when he says that he has never heard of a terrorist campaign that was “policed out”, adding that he could not think of one that had not ended through negotiation.
There has been an unshakeable faith in Europe that western law-enforcement officers […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under ARTICLES, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Islamists.
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The Middle East Peace Process: the case for jaw-jaw not war-war
By Michael Ancram, Accord (Issue 19), Conciliation Resources, 2008
When I opened talks with Sinn Féin/Irish Republican Army (IRA), such was the anger of the Ulster Unionists that they declared me ‘contaminated’ and withdrew from talks with me. Yet as a direct result of those initial communications in the early 1990s we now have the makings […]
Posted: March 13th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Dialogue, Hamas.
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Language - a tool to transform different into dangerous
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Christian Porth, Daily Star, February 2, 2008
“If thought corrupts language,” the English author George Orwell wrote in his famous 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.” Alastair Crooke, […]
Posted: February 9th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islamists, Political Islam.
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Bottom-up peacebuilding in the Occupied Territories
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Aisling Byrne, Conflicts Forum, Beirut, November, 2007
Alastair Crooke, former special Mid-East adviser to European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, and adviser to the International Quartet, is the Co-director of Conflicts Forum. An edited version of this interview was published by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Al-Majdal, […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories.
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Engaging Hamas and Hezbollah
By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, October 29, 2007
Nothing could be easier in the present atmosphere than to accuse anyone who calls for recognition of and dialogue with Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamist movements of being closet supporters of reactionary “extremism” or naive fellow travelers of “terrorists.” This tactic is not surprising coming from neoconservatives […]
Posted: November 1st, 2007 under ARTICLES, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah.
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Your best friend hates you
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, September 30, 2007
Of all the puzzling remarks made by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, naming Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his regime as one of America’s strongest and most strategic allies in the Middle East is perhaps the most puzzling.
What is strange about the statement is that it portrays […]
Posted: September 30th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Dialogue, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood.
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