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Understanding Hizbullah’s Support for the Asad Regime

A Monograph written by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, an independent Lebanese academic and political analyst.
Although Hizbullah does indeed depend on the Asad regime for its arms’ flow, this consideration alone does not adequately grasp the other motives behind its controversial stance, nor does it sufficiently explain the sturdiness of its alliance with Syria. Reducing Hizbullah’s close alliance […]

An Examination of the Ideological, Political and Strategic Causes of Iran’s Commitment to the Palestinian Cause

Conflicts Forum’s latest Monograph, by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
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Post-Oslo State-Building Strategies and their Limitations

Professor Mushtaq Khan
The Yusif A Sayigh Development Lecture 2010
December 2010, MAS, Ramallah
Conflicts Forum is very grateful to Professor Mushtaq Khan for his permission to share a lecture he gave in December 2010 in Ramallah. The full transcript of the lecture can be downloaded as a PDF (816kb) by clicking here.
“The most immediate question in Palestine […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]