Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Where to begin? Israel’s YNet news website is reporting today that Israel’s State President Shimon Peres “is unpleased by the government’s decision to renovate a selected list of heritage sites – which includes the Cave of the Patriarchs [which is also, for Palestinians and Muslims worldwide, the Ibrahimi or Abraham Mosque in Hebron] and Rachel’s [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The very estimable journalist Chris Hedges wrote in an article published by Truthdig on 1 February: “ ‘The very notion that on any given story all you have to do is report what both sides say and you’ve done a fine job of objective journalism debilitates the press’, the late columnist Molly Ivins once wrote. [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The UN General Assembly has asked UNSG BAN Ki-Moon to report back in five months about Israeli and Palestinian progress in investigating concerns about war crimes during the IDF’s three-week Operation Cast Lead in Gaza last year. That does not mean, however, that there is a five-month deadline for the completion of the investigations. In [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attended the Friday prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron today. In remarks to journalists in Hebron, Fayyad accused Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and his government of “expropriating” or “annexing” the Ibrahimi (Abraham) Mosque and several other sites important to the three monotheistic religions, including Rachel’s tomb in [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
At the dawn prayers in the Ibrahimi (Abraham) Mosque in Hebron on 25 February 1994 — during the month of Ramadan – American-born Baruch Goldstein walked in, armed, past the armed Israeli soldiers on guard who had so terrified me the afternoon before, when I was sitting in the back seat of a clearly-marked UN [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Unrest continued for a third day in Hebron over the Israeli government decision to declare the important Ibrahimi (Abraham) mosque an Israeli heritage site, as schoolgirls in headscarves and green and white striped dresses over their jeans confronted Israeli troops who shot tear gas at them, while the situation was discussed at an Arab League [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Palestinians are furious at an Israeli government decision to classify the very important Ibrahimi (Abraham) Mosque in Hebron (as well as Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem) as Israeli heritage sites. It was not a decision to annex these two sites to Israel. It was a decision to allocate money to upgrade and rehabilitate the sites. But, [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
The caption for this AP photo reads: “A journalist looks over newly excavated fortifications outside the Old City walls in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 22 2010. An Israeli archaeologist says the ancient fortifications date back 3,000 years to the time of the Bible’s King Solomon and offer evidence for the accuracy of the biblical narrative”.
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Israel, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd, The Wall) has visited The Wall here — Israel’s “security barrier” — a couple of times. He narrates a film just released (thanks to Angela for this information) by The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in Jerusalem, and he begins by saying: “The reason for walls is [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on February 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Washington Post has picked up an article written by Ben Hubbard for the Associated Press about the misery that is Qalandia checkpoint. Apparently, Ben spent five days there, early in the morning when Palestinians with permits are being treated not unlike animals as they try to get to work. Thousands — no, millions, upon [...]
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