http://www.cnionline.org Advocating Middle East policies that serve the American national interest. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:48:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-iii/ http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-iii/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:39:46 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=640 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 [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-iii/feed/ 1 http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-ii/ http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-ii/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:34:01 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=637 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: [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-ii/feed/ 2 http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-i/ http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-i/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:29:46 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=635 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 [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-i/feed/ 2 http://www.cnionline.org/yes-you-can/ http://www.cnionline.org/yes-you-can/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:19:36 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=591 By Uri Avnery FIRST, AN honest disclosure: I loved the Shepherd hotel very much. In the first years after the Six-Day War, I was a frequent guest there. My work in the Knesset demanded that I stay in Jerusalem at least two nights every week, and after the war I switched from the hotels of [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/yes-you-can/feed/ 0 http://www.cnionline.org/living-with-a-nuclear-iran/ http://www.cnionline.org/living-with-a-nuclear-iran/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:46:27 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=563 Brian Doyle CNI Staff Writer brian@cnionline.org Debate over how to respond to Iran’s nuclear program was intensified by a German magazine’s recent report in which unnamed German intelligence officials alleged Iran is only six months from a nuclear bomb. While some on the right in both the US and Israel will seize this shrinking time [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/living-with-a-nuclear-iran/feed/ 3 http://www.cnionline.org/american-elder-statesmen-endorse-cnis-stance-on-negotiations/ http://www.cnionline.org/american-elder-statesmen-endorse-cnis-stance-on-negotiations/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:51:45 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=548 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 [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/american-elder-statesmen-endorse-cnis-stance-on-negotiations/feed/ 0 http://www.cnionline.org/repercussions-and-implications-of-an-israeli-strike-on-iran/ http://www.cnionline.org/repercussions-and-implications-of-an-israeli-strike-on-iran/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:45:02 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=478 By Brian Doyle CNI Staff Writer brian@cnionline.org As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen stated recently, a strike on Iran would destabilize the whole Middle East. After Vice President Biden’s remarks this weekend that the US would not stand in the way of an Israeli strike, Iranian leaders made clear that they [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/repercussions-and-implications-of-an-israeli-strike-on-iran/feed/ 4 http://www.cnionline.org/israels-naval-campaign-against-gaza/ http://www.cnionline.org/israels-naval-campaign-against-gaza/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:57:37 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=473 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 [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/israels-naval-campaign-against-gaza/feed/ 0