Posted on September 30th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Jerusalem Post reported that “Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was expected to meet with his top ministers on Wednesday evening, for the second time in one day, to discuss establishing a commission of inquiry to investigate IDF actions during Operation Cast Lead”.
However, this is not being painted as a any kind of concession to those [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, International Tribunals, Israel
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Marian Houk
South Africa’s Justice Richard Goldstone, today defended before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva his fact-finding mission’s nearly 600-page long report on the 22-day Israeli military offensive in Gaza (27 December to 18 January).
He said he regretted that regret that “the response to date of the Government of Israel avoids dealing with the substance [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, International Tribunals, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Tensions continue — among Palestinians, at least — after disturbances the mosque esplanade in the Old City of East Jerusalem on Sunday, despite the imposed calm for the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur observed this year from Sunday night through Monday night.
There were minor disturbances reported in several East Jerusalem neighborhoods and in Bethlehem.
UPDATE: [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Palestinian journalists have confirmed with sources in Ramallah a report that first appeared in Haaretz today, which said that Israeli officials are linking the release of telecommunications frequencies for a new Palestinian mobile phone operator to the withdrawal of the Palestinian Authority’s request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to investigate information [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Tribunals, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Clashes are continuing on Sunday afternoon on the mosque esplanade where two mosques Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock are situated in the Old City of East Jerusalem.
In the morning, there were reports saying hat Jewish worshippers protected by Israeli police (armed of course) had entered the mosque esplanade — which is [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 26th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The IDF has just sent out an announcement that it has started enforcing a total closure of what it called “Yehuda/Shomron”, until the end of Yom Kippur (which starts tomorrow, Sunday, at sunset, and which ends 25 hours later, on Monday evening just after sunset).
IT is not clear exactly what “Yehuda/Shomron” is — though it [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Leonard Cohen, who celebrated his 75th birthday earlier this week, gave his scheduled concert at Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan stadium last night without any adverse incident — bringing enormous pleasure to the mostly but not entirely Israeli audience.
It is a pity that he will not be playing in Ramallah this weekend, as he had proposed [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Adriana Huffington, who has apparently been in Israel for a conference of bloggers, was interviewed by the Jerusalem Post. The full interview will be published by the newspaper next week, its website says. But a video excerpt is already posted.
Adriana Huffington of Huffington Post interviewed by Jerusalem Post
Huffington said that blogs [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on September 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
U.S. President Barack Obama presided over the UN Security Council meeting today that adopted Resolution 1887, which notes, among other things, that “enjoyment of the benefits of the NPT by a State Party can be assured only by its compliance with the obligations thereunder”. That is a nice, consensus phrase — and [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The AP’s Karin Laub, who normally works from Ramallah, is in New York to cover the Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy going on at the sidelines of the high-level segment of the annual UN General Assembly debate. Today, she wrote a report (based on an interview published in the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat — which she did not [...]
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