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:

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A lecture delivered at the Middle East Institute, 1761 N St NW, Washington DC, on April 19, 2007 at 12 noon “It is often a

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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.

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Bitter Lemons, December 21, 2006 In 1919, the world humbly bore the loss of one of its most imaginative diplomats, when 39-year-old Mark Sykes (the

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Washington’s liberal, progressive, Democrat-oriented, anti-Bush newspaper — the Washington Post — has weighed in on a prospective war against Iran. They’re all for it. If

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James Baker threw down the gauntlet to President Bush yesterday when he commended the Iraq Study Group report as “probably the only bipartisan report he’s

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Asia Times, October 14, 2006 In the wake of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, a public poll in Egypt asked a cross-section of that country’s citizenry to

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Asia Times, October 12, 2006 Introduction Writing five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, US military expert Anthony Cordesman published an account of

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Asia Times, October 13, 2006 Israel’s decision to launch a ground war to accomplish what its air force had failed to do was made hesitantly

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