Archive for 'Israeli-Palestinian conflict'
Imposing Middle East Peace
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 […]
Posted: January 28th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Europe, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obama administration, Palestinians.
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‘Businessmen posing as revolutionaries’: General Dayton and the “new Palestinian breed”
Conflicts Forum’s latest Monograph, by Aisling Byrne
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Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, MONOGRAPHS, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank.
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The answer is always Clausewitz
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, April 30, 2009
The wry and oft-repeated saying among senior American military officers is always good for a laugh: “no matter what the question,” they claim, “the answer is always Clausewitz.” Unlike many war theoreticians, Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz actually served in the military–fighting Napoleon and spending time in […]
Posted: May 3rd, 2009 under ARTICLES, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mark Perry, Middle East, Obama administration.
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Gaza: A pawn in the new ‘great game’
By Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, January 14, 2009
As Europeans watch the humanitarian disaster in Gaza unfold on nightly news bulletins, many may wonder why this crisis seems to have left their governments groping in such apparent fumbling disarray. The answer is that it is the result of policies pulling in opposite directions - of an […]
Posted: January 14th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, War on Gaza.
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Why the Gaza calm crashed
By Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, January 11, 2009
Many have asked in the wake of Israel’s attack on Gaza, how Hamas, if it saw the consequences of ending the ceasefire — and Hamas did foresee the likelihood of disproportionate Israeli military action — nonetheless could have acquiesced to the inevitable bloodshed — bloodshed that an Israeli […]
Posted: January 11th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, War on Gaza.
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“But what if nobody takes notice?”
By Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, May 11, 2008
“But what if nobody takes notice?” is the question posed by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha in an article in the recent New York Review of Books concerning the putative ‘shelf agreement’ being discussed between President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert. A ‘shelf agreement’ is an exercise in […]
Posted: May 11th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Fatah, Islamists, Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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