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Dependency politics

“I can’t see what more the international community can do to help,” the exasperated official in Brussels complained as she contemplated the likelihood of a further postponement of Lebanon’s presidential election...

Follow Us Not Them- The Ramallah Model: Washington’s Palestinian Failure

George Bush’s “vision” of a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on the supremacy of the “Ramallah model” over the “Gaza model.” U.S. policy intends that the advantages championed by Ramallah in negotiations with Israel and the economic revival enabled by international assistance will “strengthen Abu Mazen” and undermine the Palestininian majority for Hamas. In this contest, ..

Bottom-up peacebuilding in the Occupied Territories

Alastair Crooke, former special Mid-East adviser to European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, and adviser to the International Quartet, is the Co-director of Conflicts Forum. An edited version of this interview was published by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Al-Majdal, Issue No. 35, Autumn 2007 (special issue on Accountability and the Peace Making Process)...

A "Political" Civil War in Egypt! ( A Position Paper)

"In its latest statement to the public opinion, the Syndicate of Journalists considered the sentences of imprisonment passed collectively against four editors in chief as a "declaration of war against freedom of expression", which is an eloquent expression describing the gravity of the sense of peril. However, as a matter of fact,..

The Political Implications of the Hamas Electoral Victory from the Islamist Perspective

The Hamas election victory in January of 2006 sent shockwaves through the Arab world — and through Islamists with varying convictions..

Hamas Debates the Future - Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement Attempts to Reconcile Ideological

Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — won a surprising electoral victory in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections. Almost ..

Mish’al’s speech to Arab intellectuals

On November 5, Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khalid Mish’al gave a speech to Arab intellectuals gathered at the Palestine Culture Institute in Damascus...

Hamas and al-Qaida: The Prospects for Radicalization in the Palestinian Occupied Territories

The rise of the Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — in the Palestinian Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza provided a challenge for Israel and the West..

Engaging Hamas and Hezbollah

Nothing could be easier in the present atmosphere than to accuse anyone who calls for recognition of and dialogue with Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamist movements of being closet supporters of reactionary “extremism” or naive fellow travelers of “terrorists.”..

Hamas: Islamic democracy and national liberation

The Hamas election victory in January 2006 has led to an increased interest in the Islamic Resistance Movement. Hitherto little had been understood of Hamas’ history, political and social strategy and tactics. ..

From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism

From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism by Adnan Musallam - a review by Alastair Crooke, Journal of Islamic Studies (Vol 18, Number 3), Oxford University Press, September, 2007..

Hamas: Islamic democracy and national liberation

Hamas withheld from participating in the presidential and national elections due to their opposition to Oslo, as they saw these elections as being an integral part of a process which they perceived as a sell-out to the Palestinian national revolution. Eventually in a historic decision they decided to stand in the 2006 elections, and even more momentous was the fact that they achieved a resounding victory at the polls...

Closing NGOs underming Abu Mazen government

Fadwa Eshaer, a director at the ministry argues that NGOs like Al-Wurud bring with them an Islamist agenda. “We need to build a state,” she says. “We do not need funds from Syria or Iran that will destroy our society...

Your best friend hates you

The current and next American administrations have one of two possible alternatives. The first is to continue supporting a regime that complies with all their demands yet spreads embedded anti-Americanism on the domestic level, and suffer the possible consequences of that, which will be devastating to everyone. The second alternative is to support real democracy in Egypt, and realize that the outcome would be a government that would not necessarily serve America’s short term interests ..

Perceptions of identity: Islamist identity and neoconservatism

We are at a point of conflict and growing instability in the Middle East where the West’s projection of its perception of Islamist identity is no longer recognizable to Islamists themselves..

Do not undermine moderate Islamists: The case of Muslim Brotherhood leader, Khayrat El-Shater

Egyptian newspapers report that sources close to the ruling elite have asserted that Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Chairman, Khayrat El Shater, currently standing before a military tribunal, will be sentenced to five years in prison...

Talking to terrorists

At the beginning of the decade I spent a few years in the Middle East, both as an advisor to Javier Solana — the EU’s High Representative for Foreign & Security Policy — and on the staff of the commission set up by former senator George Mitchell to investigate the causes of the intifada. Part of my time was spent talking to armed militant groups. Sometimes there was an immediate objective — such as when we were taking part in the negotiations to end of the siege of the Church of the Na..

Selling the Iraqi resistance

One of the more interesting — and quiet — visits to Washington was made recently by Sunni parliamentary leader Mohammed al-Dayni, who visited Capitol Hill during May to meet with Congressional leaders and administration officials. ..

Should the West dialogue with Islamists?

“…what Muslims hate is the West’s monopoly on the socio-economic implementation of values such as justice, freedom, good governance, which all Muslims share. Muslims don’t believe simply that the West is the only model of the implementation of these values, and the only way you can have good governance is to have Western good governance. In fact, they are not sure the West has good governance in many respects...