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A wonderful day in the neighborhood
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, January 17, 2008
“Good fences make good neighbors,” the American poet Robert Frost once wrote, and he oughta know. The failed farmer turned schoolteacher was a professional Puritan who spent his lifetime not hugging people, though he is now described as one of America’s “most beloved poets”. That is to say: […]
Posted: January 27th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Israel, Mark Perry, Syria.
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Nasrallah forecasts the prospect of coming conflict
On January 15, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech celebrating the death anniversary of Shi’i Imam Al-Husayn. The following is the text of the speech carried by Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV. The text is reprinted here with permission from and thanks to Mideastwire.
“Esteemed scholars, brothers and sisters…I would like to […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Bush Administration, CF REPORTS, Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria.
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Ticking clocks and ‘accidental’ war
By Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, October 14, 2007. (An edited version of this article appeared in the October edition of US/ME Policy Brief, US/Middle East Project.)
Whilst Washington looks at the Iranian prospects through the prism of a binary, to bomb or to acquiesce decision, facing President Bush over the remainder of his presidency, the actors […]
Posted: October 14th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East, Syria.
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Middle East - behind the conflict (video)
Avi Lewis, from the Canadian television international affairs analysis program, On The Map, recently interviewed Conflicts Forum director, Alastair Crooke. The broadcast aired on CBC, June 14, 2007. To watch the whole interview, click the image below:
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Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Fatah, Hamas, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria.
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