Archive for 'Fatah'
Closing NGOs underming Abu Mazen government
From our West Bank Correspondent, Conflicts Forum, October 8, 2007
The Al-Wurud Organization supports 130 poor families by providing food packages during holy days, feasts, and at the beginning of the school year. They hold workshops for women on social, educational and health issues. But the Palestinian government — the emergency government declared by Abu […]
Posted: October 8th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Palestinians, West Bank.
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Secularism and Islamism in the Arab world
By Sukant Chandan, Conflicts Forum, October 7, 2007
Secularism in the political leadership in the Arab world has had a very short life-span if put into historical context. It became a dominant political current for a few decades in the latter half of the twentieth century, and today is seeing a near complete collapse in political […]
Posted: October 7th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in Iraq, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Intifada, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinians, Political Islam, Secularism.
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Hamas briefing
On security in Gaza, Palestinian democracy, the National Unity Government, and the kidnapping of Alan Johnston
The following is an edited and annotated transcript of a discussion between Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, Usamah Hamdan 1, the British Member of Parliament, Rt Hon Michael Ancram QC 2, the Director of London’s Global Strategy Forum, Jonathan Lehrle 3, […]
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Fatah, Hamas, Mark Perry, Mecca Agreement, Palestinians.
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Middle East - behind the conflict (video)
Avi Lewis, from the Canadian television international affairs analysis program, On The Map, recently interviewed Conflicts Forum director, Alastair Crooke. The broadcast aired on CBC, June 14, 2007. To watch the whole interview, click the image below:
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Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Fatah, Hamas, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria.
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Our second biggest mistake in the Middle East
By Alastair Crooke, London Review of Books, June 28, 2007
‘The situation in Gaza is dangerous, and the danger is that Hamas will take over and turn Gaza into “Hamastan” – into a kingdom of thugs, murderers, terrorists, poverty and despair.’ This was the reaction of Ephraim Sneh, Israel’s deputy defence minister, to Hamas’s seizure of […]
Posted: June 28th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, Palestinians.
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The Palestinian question: What now?
By Mark Perry, Conflicts Forum, June 18, 2007
In “Gaza: Another Mess Made in U.S.,” Rootless Cosmopolitan’s Tony Karon likens the defeat of Mohammad Dahlan’s U.S.-backed Preventive Security Services to an earlier American intervention from decades ago: the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco. His analysis is brilliant, but in truth Karon may have understated the breadth […]
Posted: June 18th, 2007 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mark Perry, Mecca Agreement, Occupied Territories, Palestinians.
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