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America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy

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Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, 18 Dec 2018 “The true reason behind the US-China ‘trade’ war has little to do with actual trade … What

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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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23/03/2006 Article

Back to 1967

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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Prospect, March 23, 2006 On the face of it, the Hamas refusal to recognise Israel seems perverse: plainly Israel ‘exists.’ Tel Aviv is a large

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02/03/2006 Article

Let Them Starve

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories, Palestinians

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Bitterlemons, March 2, 2006 In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the US government put in place sweeping new laws and regulations “aimed at identifying

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01/03/2006 Article

Intolerable disappointment

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories

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The World Today, March, 2006 James davies wrote in the American Sociological Review in 1962 that what provokes a people to take down its government

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01/03/2006 Article

Leaning on Hamas

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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IPG Journal, March, 2006 In a recent radio debate on us public service radio in which I participated, one of the US speakers said that the

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18/02/2006 Interview

Éviter de Pousser les Islamistes vers al-Qaida

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Le Figaro, February 18, 2006 (French) LE FIGARO: Que pensez-vous de la décision de l’Union européenne de ne pas parler au

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31/01/2006 Article

The Best Chance Towards an Enduring Settlement

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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Whilst the Western press have been focussed on the imminent challenge to Fatah from Hamas — the Islamic Resistance Party — the Israeli press has

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29/06/2005 Article

Judging Abbas

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Bush Administration, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories, Palestinians

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Palestine Report, June 29, 2005 Just two weeks ago — seated comfortably in his well-appointed Washington office — a former senior American foreign policy advisor

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01/06/2005 Article

The Road Ahead: Perspectives on Disarming Hamas

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Conciliation Resources, June, 2005 The United States and Israel are adamant that Hamas’ political aspirations must come after unilateral and, if need be, coercive disarmament

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