Middle East Politics.Net http://middleeastpolitics.net Facts, News, Trends, Analysis Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:56:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Gaza One Year On http://middleeastpolitics.net/2010/01/12/gaza-one-year-on/ http://middleeastpolitics.net/2010/01/12/gaza-one-year-on/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:56:32 +0000 davidhulme http://middleeastpolitics.net/?p=4107 The New York Review of Books reports on Gaza and the Israeli Peace Movement one year after the Gaza offensive.

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]]> http://middleeastpolitics.net/2009/09/09/official-figures-on-gaza-offensive/feed/ 0 Dubai’s Unique Role in the ME http://middleeastpolitics.net/2009/09/08/dubais-unique-role-in-the-me/ http://middleeastpolitics.net/2009/09/08/dubais-unique-role-in-the-me/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:38:32 +0000 davidhulme http://middleeastpolitics.net/?p=4093 Juan Cole’s blog has a guest writer today, Jim Crane, author of City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism. A paragraph from the guest blog notes, “In short, Dubai is an open city, a Hong Kong-style trading entrepôt with all the spies, smugglers and schemers inherent in that role. It just happens to service the world’s most dangerous region.”

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]]> http://middleeastpolitics.net/2009/09/08/turkey-and-water-to-iraq-and-syria/feed/ 0 Israel, Hamas, Fatah Prisoner Swap http://middleeastpolitics.net/2009/02/16/israel-hamas-fatah-prisoner-swap/ http://middleeastpolitics.net/2009/02/16/israel-hamas-fatah-prisoner-swap/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:11:33 +0000 davidhulme http://middleeastpolitics.net/?p=4085 Helena Cobban has a very detailed run down on the latest Israeli-Palestinian behind-the-scenes negotiations over prisoner releases that could free key Hamas and Fateh militants from Israeli hands, and one Israeli soldier held in Gaza since 2006. All of this could be the precursor to declaration of another truce between Hamas and Israel. At the same time reconciliation between Hamas and Fateh seems to be proceeding with a view to shared responsibilities and new elections.

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More on this at Vision.

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