10/08/2006 Article

Why America Can’t End the Conflict

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon

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Bitterlemons, August 10, 2006 Even the most unhappily married couple in the world knows this salient truth about their relationship: that there are things that

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08/08/2006 Article

The Loser in Lebanon: The Atlantic Alliance

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Europe, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, UN

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Asia Times, August 8, 2006 The United States and France have produced a United Nations resolution of sorts aimed at ending the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, but

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14/07/2006 Interview

The Rules of the Game

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon

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Mark Perry interviewed by Laura Rozen, The American Prospect, July 14, 2006 Mark Perry is co-director of the Conflicts Forum, a Beirut-based nongovernmental organization that

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03/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
III. An Exchange of Narratives

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Dialogue, Hezbollah, Political Islam, War on terrorism

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Asia Times, June 3, 2006 There was a time in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, when Western intellectuals debated the meaning of the

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06/05/2006 Interview

Theedrinken met Terroristen

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by VRIJ Nederland, May, 2006 (Dutch) Het WRR-pleidooi voor een dialoog met Hamas en Hezbollah werd door Nederlandse politici met hoon overladen.

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01/04/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
II. Handing Victory to the Extremists

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Political Islam, War on terrorism

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Asia Times, April 1, 2006 After the writers of this article and our colleagues visited the Middle East for talks with some of the leaders

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31/03/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
I. Talking With the ‘Terrorists’

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Middle East, Political Islam, War in Iraq, War on terrorism

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Part one: Asia Times, March 31, 2006 Seventy-two hours before the Iraqi people voted on a new parliament, on December 12, 2005, we were told

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28/07/2005 Article

From Conflict to Politics

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Democracy, Disarmament, Hamas, Hezbollah

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The Guardian, July 28, 2005 In the wake of the London bombings it is difficult to deal with issues of political violence; nonetheless, these need

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02/06/2005 Article

Listening and Talking

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Occupied Territories, Political Islam

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Bitterlemons, June 2, 2005 It is said that, soon after the signing of the Oslo Accord, Hamas leader Abdul Aziz Rantisi traveled to Tunis to

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