Posted in Books, Hamas, Palestinians on Nov 17th, 2008 No Comments »
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Jonathan Schanzer is director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center and a former counterterrorism analyst for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of [...]
Posted in Egypt, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamism, Michele Dunne, Qaeda, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Jul 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Tamara Cofman Wittes
Much of today’s backlash against democracy promotion in the Middle East can be traced to the Hamas victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections of 2006, and its effect of reinforcing the “Algerian nightmare” complex among nervous Washington policy makers about the prospect for political takeovers of Arab countries by illiberal and anti-American [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Democracy, Hamas, Harvey Sicherman, Hezbollah, Joshua Muravchik, Matthew Levitt, Michael Mandelbaum, Palestinians, Robert Satloff, Terrorism on Jun 16th, 2008 6 Comments »
In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered a parting statement under the title “Rethinking the National Interest: American Realism for a New World.” The section on the Middle East includes an elusive passage that would seem to acquiesce in the political inclusion of violent groups. The Rice quote [...]
Posted in Geopolitics, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Jon Alterman, Lebanon, Malik Mufti, Steven A. Cook, Syria, Turkey on Jun 6th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Jon Alterman
A funny thing has happened in the Middle East: virtually all of the government opposition to the United States has gone away. After almost a half-century of Cold War battles to protect oil fields, deny Soviet access to warm-water ports, and commit hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, the number of Middle [...]
Posted in Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Jordan, Matthew Levitt, Palestinians on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
From Matthew Levitt
This past week’s news placed Hamas in the spotlight, with press coverage of key Hamas activity in the West Bank, Egypt and Jordan. While Hamas suffered significant setbacks at the hands of Israeli and Jordanian authorities, the group fared much better in Egypt.
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Palestinians, Robert O. Freedman on Feb 12th, 2008 No Comments »
From Robert O. Freedman
The recent destruction of part of the wall separating Gaza from Egypt underscores the weakness of Israel’s current strategy toward Hamas-ruled Gaza. With rockets being fired against the Israeli town of Sderot as well as against the city of Ashkelon, Israel has yet to find a means of stopping the attacks. [...]
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