21/12/2006 Article

The Middle East’s New Map

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Europe, Middle East

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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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18/12/2006 Article

The Martial Plan

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Iran, Middle East

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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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07/12/2006 Article

If the US Should Talk to Iran, Why Shouldn’t it Talk to Hamas?

/ Paul Woodward

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Iran, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians

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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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06/12/2006 Interview

Debate: Hamas – Democratic Government or Terrorist Organization?

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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On November 29, 2006, Mark Perry, co-director of Conflicts Forum, took part in a debate in New York hosted by Intelligence Squared US. “A democratically

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