24/02/2006 Article

Painting Ourselves Into the Corner of PLO Non-recognition

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Dialogue, Hamas, Palestinians

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The Muslim News, February 24, 2006 Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah, spoke of the recent Hamas electoral victory to a huge gathering in

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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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07/09/2005 Article

Dispensing Statehood

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Occupied Territories, Palestinians

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Palestine Report, September 7, 2005 In 1938, American historian Crane Brinton wrote The Anatomy of Revolution. To this day, Brinton’s book remains the most powerful

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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

In Search of Respect at the Table: Hamas Ceasefires 2001–03

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Occupied Territories, Palestinians

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Article posted on Conciliation Resources, June, 2005 “Negotiating without resistance leads to surrender. But negotiating with resistance leads to real peace…the world understood that the

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25/08/2004 Article

Elusive Ingredient: Hamas and the Peace Process

/ Alastair Crooke & Beverley Milton-Edwards

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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Journal of Palestine Studies, Summer, 2004 This essay argues that the significant shift in the political power balance in the occupied Palestinian territories toward the

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01/12/2003 Article

Hamas, Ceasefires and the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process

/ Alastair Crooke & Beverley Milton-Edwards

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

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The World Today, December, 2003 When is a ceasefire more than a ceasefire?  When it builds agreement amongst contesting groups and has the potential to

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20/08/2003 Article

America’s Arafat Obsession

/ Mark Perry

Tags: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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Palestine Report, August 20, 2003 Writing in The New York Review of Books on August 14, American Middle East commentators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley

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