Posted on June 10th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Israeli academia and other institutions may soon be the subject of an international boycott called by the U.K. Universities and Colleges Union (UCU). academia, due to the prolonged and increasingly harsh occupation of the oPt, which has resulted in the “denial of educational rights” to Palestinians. The Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and the Israeli [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on June 9th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The AP reported today that “Lebanon’s army on Saturday pounded al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants hiding in a Palestinian refugee camp in renewed heavy clashes following a few days of intermittent fighting. Black smoke billowed from the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon where witnesses reported some of the heaviest army shelling since June 1, when the [...]
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Filed under: Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that: “The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, said Thursday that Lebanon’s Palestinians should be allowed to set up their own security force inside the camps to prevent formation of armed gangs in the future. Speaking after talks with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in the West [...]
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Filed under: Lebanon
Posted on June 6th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Turkish troops have crossed into northern Iraq, but “the raid is limited in scope”, according to two senior Turkish security officials interviewed by the Associated Press. Their mission is to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press. The last major Turkish incursion into northern Iraq was in [...]
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Filed under: Iraq
Posted on June 6th, 2007 by Marian Houk
You can tell when there’s a big news story in the Middle East, simply by going to the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem. This lovely hotel is now too expensive for Palestinians to frequent, or for anyone who doesn’t have an organization behind them and a big expense account. It has been not exactly [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor’s newly installed and second president, has today accused police of shooting two activists in the new political party to which he belongs – the National Congress of Reconstruction of Timor. This party is headed by Timorese liberation struggle leader Xanana Gusmao, who is now running in elections set for 30 June [...]
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Filed under: East Timor
Posted on June 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
China Hand, meanwhile, has posted this perceptive piece on his/her China Matters blog: “The Hariri Tribunal and the Approaching Lebanese Train Wreck – China Abstains and Gets out of the Way” — “The Security Council, by a vote of 10-0-5 (five abstentions by China, Russia, Indonesia, Qatar, and South Africa), authorized the imposition of a [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Lebanon
Posted on June 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
It should be remembered that in the failed Camp David Negotiations between the now-deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israel’s then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak, hosted by U.S. President Bill Clinton in July 2000, the Palestinian delegation stated that the situation of the 425,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was among the worst that existed — and [...]
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Filed under: Lebanon
Posted on June 3rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
Fighting has broken out at a second of the 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon — at Ain el-Hilwe in southern Lebanon. What? They have Islamic militants there, too? The Fatah al-Islam forces fighting against a Lebanese Army onslaught in Nahr Al-Bared camp in the north have refused to surrender. The current Palestinian Minister of [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Lebanon
Posted on June 1st, 2007 by Marian Houk
The latest reports from the Koreas say that South Korea is refusing to send food aid to North Korea until it shuts down the nuclear reactor as promised. But, this is awaiting U.S. freeing of frozen North Korean funds. AP reports that: “North Korea’s No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, affirmed the North’s intentions to [...]
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Filed under: North Korea
