16/10/2012 Article

The Ayoub Drone and Sparking War

What we can learn from a Hezbollah drone called Ayoub?

/ Yahya Dbouk

Tags: Ceasefires, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Occupied Territories

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Originally posted on Al-Akhbar English, 16 October 2012 On 12 July 2006, Hezbollah breached the border fence between Lebanon and occupied Palestine. The operation aimed

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20/12/2010 Article

The Expiration of the ‘Peace Process’: Where now for the Middle East?

A ‘peace process’ that took Israel’s self-definition of its security needs has reached exhaustion.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Gaza, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank

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Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com A ‘peace process’ that, from its inception, took Israel’s self-definition of its own security needs as the sole determinate of the

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13/12/2010 Article

Tourists in Washington: Anatomy of a European Mideast Failure

Europe subordinated itself to the US principle that Israel's self-definition of its security needs should determine any negotiated solution.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Europe, Gaza, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration, Occupied Territories, Palestinians, West Bank

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Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com The ‘weakness’ of Europe – and also that of the US – in the Middle East is not essentially one of

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03/12/2007 Interview

Bottom-up Peacebuilding in the Occupied Territories

Tags: Dialogue, Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Aisling Byrne, Projects Co-ordinator with Conflicts Forum, Beirut, November, 2007 Alastair Crooke, former special Mid-East adviser to European Union’s Foreign Policy

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07/11/2007 Publication

Hamas and al-Qaida: The Prospects for Radicalization in the Palestinian Occupied Territories

/ Khalid Amayreh

Tags: Al Qaeda, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories

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The rise of the Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — in the Palestinian Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza provided a challenge for

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18/06/2007 Article

The Palestinian Question: What Now?

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, Occupied Territories, Palestinians

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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

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02/03/2006 Article

Let Them Starve

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories, Palestinians

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Bitterlemons, March 2, 2006 In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the US government put in place sweeping new laws and regulations “aimed at identifying

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01/03/2006 Article

Intolerable disappointment

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories

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The World Today, March, 2006 James davies wrote in the American Sociological Review in 1962 that what provokes a people to take down its government

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07/09/2005 Article

Dispensing Statehood

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Occupied Territories, Palestinians

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Palestine Report, September 7, 2005 In 1938, American historian Crane Brinton wrote The Anatomy of Revolution. To this day, Brinton’s book remains the most powerful

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