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The shifting sands of state power in the Middle East

June 30, 2010

In The Washington Quarterly, Alastair Crooke writes:
In his commendably candid interview with Time in January 2010, President Barack Obama noted that managing politics in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict “is just really hard.” The president, however, might well have been speaking about the Middle East as a whole. It is not just the Israeli-Palestinian track that has [...]

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NEWS & OPINION: Saudi Arabia silences its critics

January 4, 2008

Al Jazeera no longer nips at Saudis
By Robert F. Worth, New York Times, January 4, 2008
“The gulf nations now feel they are all in the same boat, because of the threat of Iran, and the chaos of Iraq and America’s weakness,” said Mustafa Alani, a security analyst at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. “So [...]

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