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Responding to Hamas's Triumph
On March 3, 2006, Marc Otte, Patrick Clawson, and David Makovsky addressed The Washington Institute's Special Policy Forum. Ambassador Otte is the European Union's special representative for the Middle East peace process. Dr. Clawson, The Washington Institute's deputy director for research, is author with Zoe Danon Gedal of the Institute
Mar 3, 2006
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Patrick Clawson
David Makovsky
Articles & Testimony
Iran: The 'Least Bad' Options for Limiting the Growing Threats
How can Washington best communicate its assessments of Iran's nuclear and terror threats to a skeptical public, and what are the best policy options for addressing those dangers?
Mar 2, 2006
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Patrick Clawson
Articles & Testimony
Can Hamas Be Tamed?
Reprinted by permission of Foreign Affairs, 2006. Copyright 2006 by Council on Foreign Relations. For permission to republish, please contact lhammes@cfr.org The Great Experiment Much has happened in the decade between the first parliamentary elections for the Palestinian Authority (PA), in 1996, and the second, this year. The Oslo peace
Mar 1, 2006
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Michael Herzog
Brief Analysis
Where to Draw the Line on International Assistance to the Palestinians?
In the immediate aftermath of Hamas's parliamentary victory in late January, the Quartet -- the United States, the EU, Russia, and the UN -- set clear criteria for funding a Palestinian Authority (PA) under Hamas's leadership. The Quartet said direct funding would be a function of the new government's "commitment
Mar 1, 2006
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David Makovsky
Michael Herzog
Articles & Testimony
Patterns of Discontent:
Will History Repeat in Iran?
While international attention is focused on Iran's nuclear program and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bombast, Iranian society itself is facing turbulent times. Increasingly, patterns are re-emerging that mirror events in the years before the Islamic revolution. These include political disillusionment, domestic protest, government failure to match public expectations of economic success
Mar 1, 2006
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Patrick Clawson
Halting Palestinian Funds
On February 28, 2006, Institute executive director Robert Satloff appeared on PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer program to discuss international funding of the Palestinian Authority following Hamas’s victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections. The following is a transcript of Dr. Satloff’s appearance on the program. Access streaming video and audio of
Feb 28, 2006
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Robert Satloff
Brief Analysis
Al-Qaeda Attack on Abqaiq: The Vulnerability of Saudi Oil
The February 24 attack by al-Qaeda on Saudi Arabia's giant oil processing facility at Abqaiq failed. At least two of the attackers were killed, along with two security guards. On February 27, Saudi authorities said they had killed another five terrorists linked to the Abqaiq attack in a clash in
Feb 28, 2006
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Simon Henderson
Promoting Political Reform in Egypt:
Meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
The following is a transcript of remarks presented by liberal Egyptian political reformer Dr. Hala Mustafa to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the secretary's visit to Cairo. "Elections have become the center of public discussion and debate regarding democracy, but today I want to go beyond elections to focus
Feb 22, 2006
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Hala Mustafa
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Republic of Caution
Coca-Cola is banned in Syria. The country's ruling Baath party justifies this prohibition on the grounds that the Coca-Cola Company markets its beverages in Israel. Hence, when I toured all of Syria's 14 provinces recently, I found all sorts of cola, but no Coke -- that is until I stopped
Feb 20, 2006
Principles in Countering Terror Threats
On February 19, 2006, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon, outgoing chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), addressed the Intelligence Summit in Arlington, Virginia. General Yaalon is a distinguished military fellow at the Institute. The following is the prepared text of his remarks. In the past five years
Feb 19, 2006
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Moshe Yaalon
In-Depth Reports
Hamas Triumphant:
Implications for Security, Politics, Economy, and Strategy
The victory of the Islamic Resistance Movement -- Hamas -- in Palestinian legislative elections on January 25 unleashed a political tsunami throughout the Middle East and beyond. After forty years of undisputed dominance in Palestinian politics, the secular, nationalist Fatah -- the party of Yasser Arafat and the Oslo Accords
Feb 17, 2006
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Robert Satloff
Brief Analysis
Hamas Visits Ankara:
The AKP Shifts Turkey's Role in the Middle East
Khalid Mishal, a Hamas leader currently residing in Damascus, visited Ankara today. Despite fierce debate in the Turkish press and objections from the secular-minded foreign policy elite, Mishal's visit went ahead with backing from Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. From the American
Feb 16, 2006
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Soner Cagaptay
Brief Analysis
The Security Implications of a Hamas-Led Palestinian Authority
On February 8, 2006, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon addressed The Washington Institute's Special Policy Forum. General Yaalon served until June 2005 as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces. The following is a transcript of his remarks. "Hamas's recent victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections challenges all those
Feb 16, 2006
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Moshe Yaalon
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United States Must Focus on Getting Hamas to 'Transform Itself' and Accept Israel's Right to Exist
Dennis B. Ross, who was the chief U.S. Middle East peace negotiator in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, says that in the aftermath of the Palestinian electoral victory by Hamas and with elections pending in Israel, there are "two different dynamics" at play in the region
Feb 15, 2006
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Dennis Ross
Brief Analysis
Free Trade Agreements:
The Quiet Economic Track of U.S. Middle East Policy
In January, the United States halted talks on free trade with Egypt to protest the Egyptian government's imprisonment of Ayman Nour, a leading opposition figure who challenged President Hosni Mubarak in September 2005 presidential elections. Washington made no formal announcement, perhaps hoping to avoid open confrontation with Cairo, and in
Feb 13, 2006
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Fight Delay
This is the concrete deal that Hamas is offering Israel: an open-ended armistice in exchange for a well-armed and independent Palestinian state; a prolonged cessation of hostilities, but no peace treaty and no resolution of the conflict's underlying issues. According to conversations with its leaders and its public statements, Hamas
Feb 13, 2006
Brief Analysis
Miscommunication between Iranian Society and the West on Iran's Nuclear Program
In recent months, the growing controversy surrounding the Iranian nuclear program and Western suspicions about the military intentions of the Iranian regime has reached a crucial phase. A serious problem for the Western campaign to press the Islamic Republic about its nuclear program is that Iranian society has been indifferent
Feb 10, 2006
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Mehdi Khalaji
Brief Analysis
Addicted to Oil:
The State of the Union and the Middle East
In his January 31 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush declared that America was "addicted to oil" and urged spending on technologies "to break [that] addiction." Noting that oil is often imported from unstable parts of the world, he set a goal of replacing more than 75
Feb 8, 2006
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Simon Henderson
Articles & Testimony
Prospects for Peace:
A Panel of Experts Tells <i>Time</i> What Hamas's Victory Might Bring
DENNIS ROSSFormer U.S. envoy to the Middle East Hamas is going to have to make choices because they're going to need the outside world if they're going to deliver for the Palestinians. No one should make it easier for them and let them off the hook. International organizations and governments
Feb 6, 2006
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Dennis Ross
Brief Analysis
Can al-Qaeda's Lebanese Expansion Be Stopped?
As Israelis assess the implications of Hamas's victory in January elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council, a new threat may be developing in Lebanon. Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists have been present in Lebanon for a decade, but recent statements by Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi suggest that the dual objectives of
Feb 6, 2006
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Emily Hunt
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