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Articles of the author Samir Ghattas
Netanyahu seeks a third term
Israeli Prime Minister 's decision to call early elections is meant to sideline potential rivals, writes Samir Ghattas On 9 October, Israeli Prime Minister announced that he was calling early elections. Before dissolving itself, the Israeli (...)

25 - 10 - 2012
A new terror map
How could one terrorist attack pack enough power not only to shake the foundations of the status quo in Sinai but send tremors that have shaken Egypt and Gaza, plus Egypt's sensitive, if relatively stable, relationship with Israel? Samir Ghattas (...)

30 - 08 - 2012
Chronicles of what comes next
The Arabs should beware not to become victims of Israeli economic hegemony if and when direct conflict recedes, opines Samir Ghattas * Well before the present decade the whole world knew we were on the threshold of a new millennium. That awareness (...)

31 - 12 - 2010
News analysis: Seething calm
There is no love lost between Obama and Netanyahu, but there is hope, says Samir Ghattas No sooner did the recent mid- term congressional election results come out in the US than they unleashed widespread debate over their impact on a broad array of (...)

11 - 11 - 2010
Becoming Israeli
Are we up to a one-state solution, asks Samir Ghattas* He meant it when he said it. Unlike his wily predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas doesn't play with words. Emerging from a meeting with the US president on 9 June, the Palestinian president declared that (...)

08 - 07 - 2010
Let's try something else
The "Ben-Gurion of Palestine", Salam Fayyad, wants a state before one is established. Is his third way right, asks Samir Ghattas* In three months time, we'll mark the anniversary of UN Resolution 181 of 1947, which provided for the partitioning of (...)

17 - 09 - 2009
Back door open
Samir Ghattas reviews a decade and a half of Syrian-Israeli negotiations Contrary to the common impression, 2008 brought major developments in the Turkish-brokered Syrian-Israeli negotiations. Such was the progress that Syrian President Bashar (...)

30 - 07 - 2009
Egypt's bitter Palestinian harvest
On the Palestinian scene, 2008 was nothing short of catastrophic, Egypt often caught in the middle, writes Samir Ghattas As far as the Palestinian cause is concerned, 2008 has rightfully been called the year of disaster. But the crises that swept (...)

01 - 01 - 2009
Palestinians in crisis: the Arab solution
Arab mediation of internal Palestinian strife need not end up a circus if planned and executed well and backed by collective will, writes Samir Ghattas* It is the regretful opinion of many that the internal Palestinian situation has hit a nadir (...)

11 - 09 - 2008
Obama, McCain and Palestine
The exit of Bush from the White House is already anticipated in the Arab region with sighs of relief. But what is ahead under the next US president; more of the same, regardless of who wins, or change? Obama, McCain and Palestine As Palestinians (...)

31 - 07 - 2008
Turning up the heat
Despite its violent attacks, Israel in Gaza faces a strategic dilemma it cannot easily overcome, writes Samir Ghattas* The changing of the seasons is marked worldwide, but in the Middle East it frequently results in sparks. Sadly, an instance has (...)

13 - 03 - 2008
Lessons from Balfour to Bush
The irony of history is such that the creation of an independent state of Palestine now depends on the same factors that led to the creation of Israel, writes Samir Ghattas* It has been a full 90 years between the Balfour Declaration of 2 November (...)

13 - 12 - 2007
Gazan scenarios
Under domestic pressure, the Israeli government may sabotage the upcoming Washington meeting by authorising a show of force over Gaza, writes Samir Ghattas* Gaza has never been a friend of Israel. For four decades it was an occupied territory, a (...)

27 - 09 - 2007
Internationalise now
Having proven unable to lead the Palestinians towards their national aspirations, the Palestinian political establishment should dissolve and open the way for an international trusteeship, writes Samir Ghattas It is no coincidence that the call to (...)

23 - 08 - 2007
After Gaza
What happens now? Samir Ghattas* examines likely scenarios in Gaza and the West Bank Barely a month after the commemoration of the 59th anniversary of the Nakba -- the creation of Israel, the defeat of the Arabs and the dispossession of hundreds of (...)

21 - 06 - 2007
A moral roadmap?
Samir Ghattas* finds hope in the election of Amir Peretz as leader of Israel's Labour Party Israel has had its own bout of electoral fever recently, with the contest over the Labour Party leadership. Although the elections were internal and (...)

24 - 11 - 2005
One year after Arafat
With questions yet unanswered as to the causes of Arafat's death, Samir Ghattas examines the lost political savvy that preceded his passing and wonders if the two are not related On Friday 11 November, Palestinians commemorated the first anniversary (...)

17 - 11 - 2005
Uncertain futures
The fallout from the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza has yet to settle. When it does, writes Samir Ghattas*, the political landscape -- for Palestinians and Israelis -- could look very different No sooner had Israel pulled out of Gaza than the (...)

06 - 10 - 2005
Sharon's last gamble
The fallout from the Gaza redeployment will shape Israel's domestic politics for the foreseeable future, writes Samir Ghattas* In a symbolic visit Sharon plans to inspect the remains of Jewish settlements in Gaza evacuated in a police and army (...)

25 - 08 - 2005
Commentary: Hamas' heavy hand
Pushed on by factional rivalry, Hamas is flexing its muscles in Gaza to the cost of Palestinian unity, writes Samir Ghattas* International media have already begun to converge on Gaza in anticipation of the Israeli unilateral withdrawal scheduled (...)

21 - 07 - 2005
Low expectations
The Palestinian president's trip to the US was not a failure, but then neither was it a victory, writes Samir Ghattas* Mahmoud Abbas has just concluded his first visit to the US as Palestinian president. Last time he was in the US, two years ago, he (...)

02 - 06 - 2005
Palestinian watershed
While wrangling continues as to the date and form of Palestinian parliamentary elections, 2005 is sure to be a momentous year in the annals of Palestinian history, writes Samir Ghattas* How long can the Palestinians hold their breath while the (...)

26 - 05 - 2005
Armed struggle: a context
Discerning the successes and failures of the Palestinian armed struggle requires a dispassionate analysis of background, writes Samir Ghattas* During New Year celebrations 40 years ago Israel, along with many Arab countries, was stunned by the first (...)

27 - 01 - 2005
A beginning beckons
Palestinian elections will mark the real crossing of the threshold into the post-Arafat era, writes Samir Ghattas* In the wake of Yasser Arafat's death came a deluge of official statements and encouraging analyses on the renewed possibilities of (...)

16 - 12 - 2004
Facts and forecasts
Samir Ghattas* debunks the myth of the power of the American Jewish lobby, and examines its possible ramifications In the teeth of many opinion polls, the expectations of most political forecasters and the hopes of millions George W Bush, the most (...)

02 - 12 - 2004
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