Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
From Haaretz today, this headline and sub-head: “UNICEF severs ties with Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev: UN children’s fund says company owned by mogul has been involved in building settlements in W. Bank“. And from the text of the story: “UNICEF decided to review its relationship with Leviev after a campaign by Adalah-NY and found ‘at [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Millennium Goals, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, Sanctions, UN Administration
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
From Haaretz on Saturday 21 June: (1) Oil prices jump after report of Israeli drill for Iran attack Iranian cleric: Israel to receive ‘slap in face’ if it strikes; IAEA chief ElBaradei: I will resign if Iran is attacked. … “Friday’s spike was not the first caused by tensions between Israel and Iran. Oil prices [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, Global Economy, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Israel
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
By following links on Dion Nissenbaum’s blog yesterday, I came across this 20 June post on blogging, from Adam Reilly’s blog for the Boston Phoenix, DontQuoteMe ” : “…there’s a lot of disagreement out there about what, exactly, ‘blogs’ and ‘bloggers’ are. Who decided, for example, that writing like a grown-up means you’re not blogging? [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Peace appears to be breaking out all over, after one of the gloomiest recent periods in the region, during which speculation about imminent war has been nearly non-stop . The truce or calm (“tahdiya”) between Israel and Hamas – which the parties say they hope will last at least an initial six months — started [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions, Shebaa Farms
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“The human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory remains grave”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour informed the members of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week. Three new reports on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory were discussed at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Kofi Annan, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here are extended excerpts from a letter of reply from a Machsom (Checkpoint) Watch volunteer — these volunteers are all and exclusively eminently respectable adult Israeli women — to an angry soldier who objected to one of her monitoring reports: “…from the point of view of a human being…it is impossible not to see the [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a renewed appeal by a group of Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups to interfere in the military-administered fuel cuts to Gaza. On 27 January, the Court rejected a first petition that was originally brought in late October, after the Israeli military made it [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Sanctions, UN Secretary-General
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Nothing better than the full text… Here is an extended excerpt from Monday’s U.S. State Department briefing, with an extended exchange between the spokesman and several journalists, on what happened, exactly, concerning the Gazan students and their possible Fulbright scholarship study in the coming academic year: “QUESTION: Just on the Fulbright matter. MR. MCCORMACK: Yes. [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press is reporting today that, in their meeting in Jerusalem yesterday, on Jerusalem Day 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that “Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem will stay in Israel’s hands” under any final peace deal”, according to Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev”. That means, of course, the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
UN Secretary BAN Ki-Moon said, in a statement issued by his spokesman, that he was “deeply concerned at the recent announcement by the Israeli government to invite new tenders for construction in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem … The Government of Israel’s continued construction in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is contrary to international [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations, USA
