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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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22/04/2007 Article

Dancing with Wolves: The Importance of Talking to Your Enemies

/ Michael Ancram

Tags: Ceasefires, Dialogue, Diplomacy, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mediation, Middle East, War on terrorism

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A lecture delivered at the Middle East Institute, 1761 N St NW, Washington DC, on April 19, 2007 at 12 noon “It is often a

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05/03/2007 Article

How the Saudis Stole a March on the US

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Diplomacy, Fatah, Hamas, Mecca Agreement, Middle East, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia

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Asia Times, March 5, 2007 Palestinian Authority advisers Saeb Erakat and Yasser Abed Rabbo arrived in Washington at the beginning of February confused and uncertain.

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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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02/11/2006 Article

How Hezbollah Defeated Israel:
III. The Political War

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Asia Times, October 14, 2006 In the wake of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, a public poll in Egypt asked a cross-section of that country’s citizenry to

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27/10/2006 Article

How Hezbollah Defeated Israel:
I. Winning the Intelligence War

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Asia Times, October 12, 2006 Introduction Writing five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, US military expert Anthony Cordesman published an account of

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27/10/2006 Article

How Hezbollah Defeated Israel:
II. Winning the Ground War

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Asia Times, October 13, 2006 Israel’s decision to launch a ground war to accomplish what its air force had failed to do was made hesitantly

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14/10/2006 Article

Comment le Hezbollah a Vaincu Israël

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Middle East

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Traduit par Marcel Charbonnier et révisé par Fausto Giudice [La victoire du Hezbollah dans son récent conflit avec Israël est beaucoup plus significative que bien

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