03/06/2010 Article

After the Israeli Flotilla Incident, Turkey is the new Palestinian Champion

What we are witnessing is another step – perhaps crucial – in the shifting strategic balance of power in the Middle East.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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Article posted on The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times June 3, 2010 Beirut, Lebanon “This is language that we have not heard

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28/01/2010 Article

Imposing Middle East Peace

Israel has crossed the threshold from the Middle East’s only democracy to the only “apartheid regime” in the Western world.

/ Henry Siegman

Tags: Europe, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obama administration, Palestinians

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Report published by the Norwegian Peace-Building Centre The continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank seems to have finally locked in the permanence

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12/03/2009 Article

Why Hamas is no ‘Extremist’

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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Article posted on Open Democracy, March 11, 2009 In the mechanistic template imposed by western leaders on the Middle East, of ‘moderates’ who must be

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01/11/2007 Publication

Hamas Debates the Future – Attempting to Reconcile Ideological Purity and Political Realism

/ Khaled Amayreh

Tags: Hamas, Palestinians, Political Islam

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Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — won a surprising electoral victory in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections. Almost immediately, Hamas leaders, movement activists,

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01/11/2007 Publication

The Political Implications of the Hamas Electoral Victory from the Islamist Perspective

/ Azzam Tamimi

Tags: Democracy, Fatah, Hamas, Palestinians, Political Islam

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The Hamas election victory in January of 2006 sent shockwaves through the Arab world — and through Islamists with varying convictions. The debate among Islamists

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01/11/2007 Publication

“Follow Us Not Them” — The Ramallah Model: Washington’s Palestinian Failure

/ Geoffrey Aronson

Tags: Bush Administration, Diplomacy, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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George Bush’s “vision” of a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on the supremacy of the “Ramallah model” over the “Gaza model.” U.S. policy

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08/10/2007 Article

Closing NGOs Undermine Abu Mazen Government

/ West Bank Correspondent

Tags: Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Palestinians, West Bank

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The Al-Wurud Organization supports 130 poor families by providing food packages during holy days, feasts, and at the beginning of the school year. They hold

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07/10/2007 Article

Secularism and Islamism in the Arab World

/ Sukant Chandan

Tags: Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in Iraq, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Intifada, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinians, Political Islam, Secularism

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Secularism in the political leadership in the Arab world has had a very short life-span if put into historical context. It became a dominant political

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19/08/2007 Article

The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam

/ Henry Siegman

Tags: Bush Administration, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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London Review of Books, August 19, 2007 When Ehud Olmert and George W. Bush met at the White House in June, they concluded that Hamas’s

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