26/11/2012 Article

The New Hamas: Challenges of Resistance

/ Ibrahim al-Amin

Tags: Hamas, Political Islam, Resistance

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Originally posted on Al-Akhbar English  November 23, 2012 The great praise being voiced for the steadfastness of the people and resistance in Gaza cannot blind us to

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19/11/2012 Article

Gaza: Questions for Egypt and Hamas

/ Ibrahim Al-Amine

Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine

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This Article is published with the permission of Al-Akhbar English. Israel has dealt a harsh blow to the resistance in Palestine. Its assassination of the

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08/03/2011 Article

Permanent Temporariness

A two-state solution does not solve the problem of how to maintain Zionism, it compounds it.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Diplomacy, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians

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Article posted on London Review of Books It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which

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31/01/2011 Article

What Prospect for Reconciliation?

Enmity towards Hamas has been so systemized that it would require dismantling everything built by Abbas and the US.

/ Alastair Crooke

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

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Article posted on english.aljazeera.net Enmity towards Hamas has been so systemized that it would require dismantling everything built by Abbas and the US. Many may

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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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07/07/2009 Article

Meshaal Delivers Speech on Obama’s Position on Peace Process

/ Khalid Meshaal

Tags: Hamas, Obama administration

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On June 25, Khalid Meshaal, head of the Hamas Political Bureau gave a televised speech in Damascus and said, in part: “… The Obama administration

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11/06/2009 Article

The Essence of Islamist Resistance: A Different View of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamists

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Article posted in New Perspectives Quarterly, June 2, 2009 Most Western analysts of political Islam make the same mistake. They instinctively assume that conflict with

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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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20/01/2009 Article

A Return to Square One

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, War on Gaza

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Article posted on The Guardian, January 19, 2009 On Saturday evening, Israel announced not a ceasefire – in the sense of an agreement between the

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