Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]