Archive for the ‘US Foreign Policy’ Category

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili have agreed to open talks between the six world powers and Iran on October 1. The meeting will bring together representatives of the UK, China, Russia, France, the US, and Germany with top officials from Tehran in a location yet to be [...]

Principled Policy as a Last Resort Michael Thomas CNI Board Member American policy toward Hamas has been self defeating. From and after the elections of 2006, in the name of the war on terror, the US has dishonored its commitment to democratic institutions; has vigorously supported massive violations of international humanitarian and human rights law [...]

Hamas and Current American Policy Michael Thomas CNI Board Member Part I summarized what was learned about Hamas in meetings throughout the Levant in May of this year. In this Part II, we will consider information about Hamas from sources we did not talk to, and analyze current American policies and their evident effects. Hamas: [...]

By Shane McCarthy, CNI Staff Writer shane@cnionline.org The disparity between American and Israeli interests was once again illuminated in a recent meeting between Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem. In a joint news conference at the King David Hotel, Mr. Barak stated that he did not approve of America’s [...]

By Brian Doyle and Shane McCarthy CNI Staff Writers brian@cnionline.org and shane@cnionline.org The Foundation for Middle East Peace, a Washington-based non-profit promoting a just Israeli-Palestinian accord, unveiled a DVD “New Hope for Peace: What America Must do to End the Israel Palestine Conflict” at the US Institute for Peace today in which four American elder [...]