Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Marian Houk
South Africa’s Justice Richard Goldstone, who headed the UN Fact-Finding Mission on last winter’s Gaza war, has published an introspective piece in the Jerusalem Post today, in which he said that: “Over the past 20 years, I have investigated serious violations of international law in my own country, South Africa, in the former Yugoslavia, in [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Miyuki Hatoyama, 66, wife of new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has won an award for looking good — in her jeans. According to a report by the Associated Press, she won the annual prize given to celebrities who look best in denim, along with four Japanese musicians and a Taiwanese actor. The first lady was [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Maan News Agency reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a meeting of Fatah Revolutionary Council at the Presidential headquarters compound, the Muqata’a, in Ramallah, that “To keep you updated, when the Goldstone report was released, we agreed on it and welcomed it. Arab countries proposed a high-level project to be submitted to the UN [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
Posted on October 17th, 2009 by Marian Houk
A new Palestinian telecommunications company, Wataniya Mobile, failed to launch its service by 15 October, a date the company had set to begin operations. The problem is dispute over frequency allocation complicated by the Israeli military occupation and total control of the West Bank. Wataniya has said that if the launch date is not met, [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
Posted on October 17th, 2009 by Marian Houk
As we reported yesterday, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva adopted a resolution supporting the report on last winter’s Gaza war that the HRC had commissioned from a team lead by South Africa’s Justice Richard Goldstone. The vote was 25 in favor, 11 against, and 6 abstentions, as follows: In favour: Argentina, Bahrain, [...]
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Just over half of the members — 25 out of 47 — of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva voted Friday to endorse the Goldstone Report on last winter’s Gaza war that they would otherwise not have considered until March 2010. The Palestinian leadership which agreed, and which requested, the deley of five months [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Excerpts from an interview with Yasser Abbas (son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) in his office in Ramallah, 18 December 2008: Previous excerpts: Part 3: Business and Businessmen in Palestine Part 2: Fatah and Hamas – what’s the problem? Part 1: Fatah and Hamas – and the Abbas family house in Gaza Marian Houk (Question): [...]
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Filed under: Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Excerpts from an interview with Yasser Abbas in Ramallah – 18 December 2008 – by Marian Houk – Part 3 Other excerpts: Part 4: Separation of Powers in Ramallah Part 2: Fatah and Hamas – what’s the problem? Part 1: Fatah and Hamas – and the Abbas family house in Gaza Question (Marian Houk): Let [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Global Economy, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, Qatar
Posted on October 14th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Other excerpts: Part 4: Separation of Powers in Ramallah Part 3: Business and Businessmen in Palestine Part 1: Fatah and Hamas – and the Abbas family house in Gaza Yasser Abbas (apparently named after Yasser Arafat), Palestinian businessman and older of the two surviving sons of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said in an interview in [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 14th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Other excerpts: Part 4: Separation of Powers in Ramallah Part 3: Business and Businessmen in Palestine Part 2: Fatah and Hamas – what’s the problem? Yasser Abbas is the second son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (known as Abu Mazen, after the given name of his oldest son, Mazen, who died following surgery in Qatar [...]
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