Listening to political Islam, recognising resistance -- doesn’t even bother very much to pretend that it is anything other than a partisan for Hamas and Hezbollah. Crooke pops up in the media whenever there are attempts to confer legitimacy on the Islamic jihad -- a role which came to light when he was abruptly recalled to London by the Security Service, having been a bit too open about his attempts to suck up to Hamas but which he...
Wednesday, 14th January 2009
An absence of consistency
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The Washington Post reports:Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday that the incoming Obama administration will seek to engage directly with Iran in an effort to persuade it to abandon its nuclear program and become ‘a constructive regional actor,’ underscoring a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy from the Bush administration.
Yup, here we go. But wait:She drew the line, however, at the idea of the United States engaging in immediate talks with Hamas, the militant group battling Israel. Clinton said it is appropriate to set conditions in dealing with what she called ‘non-state actors,’ which in the case of Hamas would be renouncing violence, recognizing Israel and respecting previous agreements between Israelis and Palestinians.
Er...why ‘appropriate’, exactly? What is inappropriate about setting the same conditions – plus a renunication of...A disproportionate animus
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Having given Sir Jeremy Greenstock from the ‘conflict resolution’ group Forward Thinking virtual free rein to promote the cause of Hamas, BBC Radio Four‘s Today programme (0846) gave an unchallenged hearing this morning to a yet more dubious individual. Alastair Crooke is the former MI6 spook who runs Conflicts Forum which – with its masthead slogan
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
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