Archive for 'Mecca Agreement'
The failure of the Palestinian national unity government and the Gaza takeover
A Conflicts Forum Chronology, October 15, 2007
The Failure of the National Unity Government and the Gaza Takeover: December 2005 to July 2007 [PDF], is a detailed chronology, documenting events leading up to the signing, on February 8, 2007, of the Mecca Agreement ending factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, leading to the formation of a […]
Posted: October 15th, 2007 under CF REPORTS, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Mecca Agreement, West Bank.
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Washington in Lebanon and Palestine: fatal manipulation
By Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, openDemocracy*, August 14, 2007
Many parallels are currently being drawn between the crises in Palestine and Lebanon. A number focus on the most visible similarity: the “two-state, two-government” scenario which has become a reality in Palestine (with different authorities in charge in Gaza and the West Bank) and threatens to do the same […]
Posted: August 14th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Gaza, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Mecca Agreement, Middle East, Neocons, Palestinians, Political Islam.
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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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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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The political implications of the Hamas electoral victory from Islamist, regional and Western perspectives
A Conflicts Forum conference sponsored by the European Commission, Beirut, March 2007
Conference Report, Part Two
In March of 2007, Conflicts Forum conducted a workshop on the political implications of the Hamas electoral victory from Islamist, regional and Western perspectives. The conference, held in Beirut, Lebanon, presented speakers from the region, including Islamist scholars and leaders, those […]
Posted: June 18th, 2007 under Bush Administration, CF CONFERENCE, Diplomacy, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, Middle East, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia.
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