Posts Tagged ‘Hamas’

Principled Policy as a Last Resort
Michael Thomas
CNI Board Member
American policy toward Hamas has been self defeating. From and after the elections of 2006, in the name of the war on terror, the US has dishonored its commitment to democratic institutions; has vigorously supported massive violations of international humanitarian and human rights law against [...]

Hamas and Current American Policy
Michael Thomas
CNI Board Member

Part I summarized what was learned about Hamas in meetings throughout the Levant in May of this year. In this Part II, we will consider information about Hamas from sources we did not talk to, and analyze current American policies and their evident effects.
Hamas: The Rest of [...]

Hamas as It and Its Neighbors See It
Michael Thomas
CNI Board Member

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has proven intractable for over six decades. In the past decade, even as Israel, Arab states and Fatah have seemed to be gravitating toward a two-state solution many blame a resistance organization designated terrorist by the [...]

By Brian Doyle and Shane McCarthy
CNI Staff Writers
brian@cnionline.org and shane@cnionline.org
The Foundation for Middle East Peace, a Washington-based non-profit promoting a just Israeli-Palestinian accord, unveiled a DVD “New Hope for Peace: What America Must do to End the Israel Palestine Conflict” at the US Institute for Peace today in which four American elder statesmen—former President [...]

By Brian Doyle
CNI Staff Writer
brian@cnionline.org
Yesterday Israel continued its naval campaign against Gaza, seizing a ship from the US-based Free Gaza Movement that was attempting to enter the besieged Palestinian territory with a cargo of humanitarian supplies. The ship, Spirit of Humanity, had sailed from Cyprus but was stopped and boarded by the Israeli Navy, [...]