Conflicts Forum

Alastair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
The ‘weakness’ of Europe — and also that of the US — in the Middle East is not essentially one of waning power and influence. Although the scent of decline always has had a powerful affect in this region, the root of this western debilitation consists of a more profound ailment: […]

Henry Siegman
Report published by the Norwegian Peace-Building Centre
The continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank seems to have finally locked in the permanence of Israel’s colonial project. Israel has crossed the threshold from the Middle East’s only democracy to the only “apartheid regime” in the Western world. But outside intervention may offer the […]

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“From Crisis to Opportunity: Inclusive Approaches to the Arab-Israeli Conflict” - a project funded by the European Union under its Partnership for Peace Programme
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By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, December 21, 2006
In 1919, the world humbly bore the loss of one of its most imaginative diplomats, when 39-year-old Mark Sykes (the “6th baronet”) succumbed to the Spanish flu in his well-appointed Paris hotel room. Sykes died a happy man, having created (with his boon buddy Francoise Georges-Picot), a “New […]

By Alastair Crooke, Bitterlemons, August 31, 2006
It’s unconscious. It slips out almost inadvertently. It is not deliberate but, rather, a reflex: an Israeli commentator discusses options for clearing Hizballah from the area south of the Litani River in the context of the war in Lebanon. After reviewing the options he adds, in an almost despairing […]

By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, August 8, 2006

The United States and France have produced a United Nations resolution of sorts aimed at ending the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, but the negotiations between US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton and France’s Jean-Marc de La Sabliere nearly ended in disaster.
Through the course of a single […]