Archive for 'Israeli-Palestinian conflict'
Building a police state in Palestine
Aisling Byrne
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
“If we are building a police state — what are we actually doing here?” So asked a European diplomat responding to allegations of torture by the Palestinian security forces. The diplomat might well ask. A police state is not a state. It is a form of larceny: of people’s rights, aspirations […]
Posted: January 19th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, 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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Tourists in Washington: anatomy of an European Mideast failure
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: […]
Posted: December 13th, 2010 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Europe, Gaza, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank.
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The Shifting Sands of State Power in the Middle East
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Washington Quarterly, June 2010
In his commendably candid interview with Time in January 2010, President Barack Obama noted that managing politics in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict “is just really hard.” The president, however, might well have been speaking about the Middle East as a whole. It is not just the […]
Posted: June 29th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration.
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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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