Archive for 'Mecca Agreement'
Document details ‘U.S.’ plan to sink Hamas
By Mark Perry and Paul Woodward, Asia Times, May 16, 2007
On April 30, the Jordanian weekly newspaper Al-Majd published a story about a 16-page secret document, an “Action Plan for the Palestinian Presidency” that called for undermining and replacing the Palestinian national-unity government.
The document outlined steps that would strengthen Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, build up […]
Posted: May 23rd, 2007 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mark Perry, Mecca Agreement.
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Blueprint for the third intifada - America’s reverse Midas touch
By Paul Woodward, Conflicts Forum, May 10, 2007
On May 4, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an account of a U.S. security plan for Gaza along with “Acceleration Benchmarks for Agreement on Movement and Access” that would govern travel inside the West Bank. The American plan would remove dozens of roadblocks to ease internal Palestinian travel, […]
Posted: May 10th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, 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
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 close to Islamist […]
Posted: April 30th, 2007 under CF CONFERENCE, Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, Palestinians, Political Islam.
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How the Saudis stole a march on the U.S.
By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, Asia Times, March 5, 2007
Palestinian Authority advisers Saeb Erakat and Yasser Abed Rabbo arrived in Washington at the beginning of February confused and uncertain. Their mandate from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, was to talk to State Department officials about US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s upcoming […]
Posted: March 5th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Diplomacy, Fatah, Hamas, Mark Perry, Mecca Agreement, Middle East, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia.
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