Alastair Crooke is Director of Conflicts Forum, a geo-political and geo-financial consultancy, and adviser to a number of larger geo-financial entities. He was formerly advisor on Middle East security issues to Javier Solana, the EU Foreign Policy Chief for 9 years. He was also a staff member of Senator George Mitchell’s Fact Finding Committee that inquired into the causes of the Intifada (2000-2001) and an adviser to the International Quartet. Prior to that he worked for the British government, predominantly in West Asia, for 35 years, including managing a number of ceasefires in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Lebanon on behalf of the European Union and working on a number of hostage cases. He is author of Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution (2009) and a forthcoming book addressing the metaphysics to our present global anguish. He is a regular media commentator on politics and geo-financial issues. Conflicts Forum Substack: https://conflictsforum.substack.com.
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