Archive for 'War on Gaza'
A return to square one
By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, January 19, 2009
On Saturday evening, Israel announced not a ceasefire - in the sense of an agreement between the parties to end a conflict - but a decision that its forces will unilaterally halt their fire. It said it would await the Hamas response, any timetable for a withdrawal of […]
Posted: January 20th, 2009 under Alastair Crooke, Hamas, War on Gaza.
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The middle ground is eroding fast
By Alastair Crooke, London Review of Books, January 15, 2009
‘We have to ask the West a question: when the Israelis bombed the house of Sheikh Nizar Rayan, a Hamas leader, killing him, his wives, his nine children, and killing 19 others who happened to live in adjoining houses – because they saw him as a […]
Posted: January 17th, 2009 under Alastair Crooke, Hamas, Islamists, War on Gaza.
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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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The War in Gaza: A view from the Arab street
By Alastair Crooke, Royal United Services Institute, January 12, 2009
The round of international diplomacy that has just concluded has left this part of the Arab world incredulous, extremely angry and polarised. The demonstrations in Syria this weekend were marked by use of extreme slogans seldom heard in public, and images of Osama bin Laden were […]
Posted: January 14th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Hamas, 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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