Posted on January 31st, 2010 by Marian Houk
Palestinian TV news has shot up in the ratings, I am told, over the past few months — and Al-Jazeera has dropped.
Previously, Palestinians were getting their local news from Al-Jazeera. Could Al-Jazeera really give enough local coverage to satisfy the Palestinians here, I used to ask? It is all there is, I was [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
What has been revealed is not new, and it is not a surprise. It is no longer a shock, but it is still sickening.
There are many who will, nonetheless, argue that this is distorted and not true — who will hurl accusations and denunciations, and try to damage those who collect this testimony as well [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
From a link on Facebook, a post on Joseph Dana’s blog on the Friday demonstrations that have been taking place for the past 3 to 4 months in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, where Palestinian refugee families are being evicted, one by one, from homes they have been living in for over 50 [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
From an interesting AP post-mortem obit (“Whats in Salinger’s Safe?”) of the reclusive American writer J.D. Salinger, posted here:
“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing,” J.D. Salinger told The New York Times in 1974. “Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Today is Friday. Palestinian television will normally be show the Friday prayers from Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, located in the Old City of East Jerusalem, but this Friday Palestinian TV will broadcast live from Burrin, a village in the northern West Bank, near Nablus, where a mosque under construction, [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Marian Houk
In his first State of the Union speech to Congress last night in Washington, U.S. President Obama did not even mention the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, despite the priority he gave the matter upon taking office.
Obama said in his early days in office that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was in the United States’ national interest.
Obama’s [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Haaretz is reporting today that “A majority of Israel’s Holocaust survivors suffer from depression, sleeping disorders or other emotional distress, according to a survey released Tuesday by a leading advocacy group. The Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel issued its report on the eve of International Holocaust Memorial Day, which [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Marian Houk
In the wrap-up stories, two weeks after the enormous destruction caused by a devastating earthquake in Haiti, the AP is reporting that “UN experts estimate there may be 1 million unaccompanied or orphaned children or youngsters who lost at least one parent in the Jan. 12 quake. Some young Haitians are even being released [...]
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Filed under: Haiti
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Haaretz newspaper is reporting today that the earthquake disaster which recently hit Haiti can — indeed, will — also inevitably happen in Israel.
Avi Shapira, chairman of the National Earthquake Preparedness Committee, who just returned from Haiti and addressed a special Knesset (Parliament) committee on Tuesday, said that “An earthquake of the same magnitude as the [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The McClatchy newspaper group published an article yesterday from Port au-Prince, the earthquake-devastated capital of the Carribean nation of Haiti (one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere) reporting that a “Lack of construction codes sealed Haitian capital’s fate”.
Actually, this story is repeated nearly every time there has been a major, catastrophic urban earthquake.
Living [...]
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Filed under: Haiti, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
