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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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02/11/2010 Article

The True Significance of Ahmadinejad’s Lebanon Visit

The significance of President Ahmadinejad’s visit was the popular articulation of this awakening, and the profound struggle ahead that it portends.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Iran, Israel, Middle East

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Article posted on www.raceforiran.com Firstly, let us put to one side the nonsense: The President of Iran’s visit was not about embedding Lebanon as a

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29/06/2010 Article

Iran and the end of Deference

The dismissive brushing aside of the results of those who had successful engaged Iran -Turkey and Brazil - leaves little on which to build. It leaves bitterness and mistrust on all sides.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Iran, United Nations

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Article posted on Middle East Channel, foreignpolicy.com, June 2010 The additional sanctions which the Security Council imposed on Iran earlier this month, and the additional

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29/06/2010 Article

The Shifting Sands of State Power in the Middle East

The prospective bitter struggle over the future of the region, and the shaping of Islam closely interconnected to the balance of power will not see a region any “easier” for the US to deal with.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration

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Article posted on The Washington Quarterly, June 2010 In his commendably candid interview with Time in January 2010, President Barack Obama noted that managing politics

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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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