Archive for 'Israel'
Permanent Temporariness
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on London Review of Books
It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which I was sitting flew open. In stalked a figure still dressed in a dark overcoat and scarf. He evidently could contain himself no longer. I was in Downing Street with […]
Posted: March 8th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Diplomacy, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians, War on terrorism.
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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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Why the demise of the Middle East ‘peace process’ may be a good thing
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on The Christian Science Monitor
Recognizing that a two-state solution is no longer in the cards opens the way for other paths that don’t depend on Western mediation. It puts to rest the fiction that a Palestinian state will emerge from even the best intentions of the West instead of from the political […]
Posted: January 13th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Diplomacy, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mediation, Middle East, Palestinians.
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The expiration of the ‘Peace Process’: Where now for the Middle East?
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
A ‘peace process’ that, from its inception, took Israel’s self-definition of its own security needs as the sole determinate of the walls within which any solution for Palestinians was to be conducted, has reached exhaustion. Based on such a reductive premise, its arrival at this deathly nadir, with no more than […]
Posted: December 20th, 2010 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Gaza, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank.
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After the Israeli flotilla incident, Turkey is the new Palestinian champion
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times
June 3, 2010
Beirut, Lebanon
“This is language that we have not heard since the time of Gamal Abdul Nasser.” Thus wrote the influential chief editor of Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fiery response to the Israeli […]
Posted: June 11th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians.
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