Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Marian Houk
What happened in Gaza in the last two months is not the first time Palestinians have been subjected to … what shall I call it? Let’s just say, such an experience. There was the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the 1973 war, the 1982 siege of Beirut, the suppression of the first and second Palestinian [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The first reports were that a red-faced Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked off the stage at Davos because he was cut off when he tried to reply to the State President of Israel, Shimon Peres. An AP report after the event, and a subsequent press conference, says that “Peres was passionate in his [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The U.S. State Department spokesman announced in today’s regular daily briefing in Washington that U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East, George Mitchell, met Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Jerusalem. This meeting could have happened at the U.S. Consulate in East or West Jerusalem, of course … Rice had some meetings at the U.S. [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Marian Houk
George Mitchell, the new U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, said after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah today that he wanted to convey the deep concern in the U.S. about the loss of Palestinian life. Mitchell arrived in the region just days after the end of the active phase of a three-week [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Humanitarian Aid, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Here are two more items — actually, three — which deserve attention and reflection: I. More excerpts from a Statement to the United Nations Security Council in New York by John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, 27 January 2009: “There are important principles at stake here too, as the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Here are two different but related items, which are juxtaposed here for full consideration – I.) From the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a communication dated 27 January 2009: FAQ – Answers to questions on the operation in Gaza – MFA Spokesperson responds to frequently asked questions about the IDF operation against Hamas terror in [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Marian Houk
There was an attack on an Israeli patrol alongside the Gaza border yesterday (Israeli media say a roadside explosion went off just on the Israeli side of the border), near Kissufim. One Israeli soldier was killed, and several wounded. All crossings between Israel and Gaza were then closed (barring the entry and exit of journalists, [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Iran, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Marian Houk
This would be hilarious, if it weren’t so serious: Dion Nissenbaum wrote on his blog yesterday that “When the head of the Israeli Government Press Office tells The Jerusalem Post that there was no ban on journalists entering Gaza during the recent military operation, the appropriate response would be to laugh … One can argue [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Marian Houk
An medical treatment clinic set up by the Israeli Ministry of Health “for the people of Gaza” on 18 January, the day after Israel announced a unilateral cease-fire it its military offensive in Gaza, is to be closed down tomorrow (Wednesday), Israel’s YNet website has reported. The clinic was located in the main Erez Terminal, [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Bradley Burston wrote in Haaretz today that “The war had gone on only a few days when Israel Channel 10 television began interspersing coverage of Palestinian rockets exploding in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon and commercials for the Israeli version of the veteran reality show Survivor, in which one of the contestants is shown [...]
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