Posted on July 12th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Boycotts are in the air — billed as a peaceful alternative to war and conflict of all sorts. The definitive worth of the tactic is debatable — and in some circles it is being debated. Naomi Klein recently visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory [West Bank + Gaza -- yes, the Israeli military allowed [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, United Nations Agencies and Programmes, US in UN
Posted on July 10th, 2009 by Marian Houk
There is an edited version of an interview with Leonard Cohen published today in The Guardian which makes me wonder about Leonard Cohen and love. It made me think of someone whose birthday is today (not Leonard Cohen – his birthday is 21 September, as we already reported here . ) According to The Guardian, [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Items for reflection: (1) At a briefing for journalists at Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that there is “concrete data which attests to the fact that the security fence has no impact on economic activities and there are many, many ways actually, to kind of circumvent that, and we [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Advisory Opinion was a landmark — and it has been ignored. A reminder: five years ago today, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands, handed down an Advisory Opinion – on 9 July 2009 – which ruled that “The construction of the wall being built by Israel, the occupying Power, in the [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Leonard Cohen might not be Michael Jackson, but he has a devoted, even passionate, following in various parts of the world. Israel is one of those places. The occupied Palestinian territory is not. Yet, an announcement has been made that Leonard Cohen will perform in Ramallah in late September — a day after he [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on July 8th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Two very rare events — public hearings into the IDF’s Operation Cast Lead “and the circumstances surrounding it” — are over. The hearings were held by the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict that was mandated by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, which is headed by South Africa’s Justice Richard Goldstone. The hearings [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Go west, Israeli authorities are suggesting to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem. To the West Bank, that is. It is an offer to go into voluntary exile from people and places that have been most meaningful to these Palestinians’ lives — and this is not just insurance benefits, but family, friends, loved ones, stores, schools, [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Almost a week after they were confronted by Israeli naval vessels and towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, the Free Gaza Movement indicates that its activists captured at sea on board a boat flying a Greek flag and sailing from Cyprus to Gaza were “accused of entering Israel illegally”, but that all charges were [...]
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Filed under: Cyprus, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Marian Houk
It is a slightly but significantly different formulation from the demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish State. As Israel’s Prime Minister clarified just days after his recent policy speech at Bar Ilan University (billed as his answer to U.S. President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo University on 4 June), [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Col (Res) Shaul Arieli, adviser to Israel’s Former Prime Minister (now Defense Minister) Ehud Barak during the Camp David-and-after negotiations in 2000-2001, who continued along the same line when the government faltered by participating in working on drafting the still-limping Geneva Accord/Iniitiative, has written recently in Haaretz that “Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise – that Israel will [...]
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