Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu — unrepentant, it is said, after a very recent flap with Washington over measures to expand Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem — said in Washington today that “Jerusalem is not a settlement — Jerusalem is our capital”. [Actually, Netanyahu was only repeating words spoken on Monday by Howard Kohr, executive [...]
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Filed under: International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
UPDATE: Tuesday 23 March 2010 — Haaretz is reporting that “The Israel Defense Forces’ chief prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the army to open an internal investigation into the circumstances that led soldiers to open fire and kill two Palestinian youth in the West Bank over the weekend. Major Avihai Mandelblit’s issued his order to the [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
This is a photo, taken by a field worker for BTselem, of the xray made on Saturday in a Nablus hospital of the bullet lodged in the brain of a Palestinian teenager shot in his village of Iraq Burin, in the West Bank south of Nablus, on Saturday 20 March. He died just before dawn [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
UNSG BAN Ki-Moon entered the Gaza strip this morning (Sunday) — despite firing of at least four rockets from Gaza on Saturday to Israeli perimeter communities. Such firing usually brings Israeli reprisals — but that will have to wait until BAN leaves the Gaza Strip. [UPDATE: SMS Israel is reporting that Palestinian sources say the [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on March 20th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Not long after UNSG BAN Ki-Moon was escorted by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in security and relative luxury on a “brief” tour of the West Bank, to see settlements and The Wall, near Ramallah, two teenage Palestinians were shot by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank village of Iraq Burin, south of Nablus. [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad gave UN Secretary-General BAN Ki-Moon a safe and secure look at the situation on the ground in the West Bank. UNSG BAN was originally supposed to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas — but Abbas reportedly is suffering back pain following an accidental fall last week, and was advised to rest [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Russia has wanted to host an international conference on Middle East Peace since the start of the Annapolis process of direct negotiations in late November 2007. It wasn’t exactly a full international multilateral conference, but today the Quartet of Middle East negotiators (US, Russia, European Union + UN) met in Moscow — with their Special [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, European Union, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Russia, USA
Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Marian Houk
It’s Friday — and now we know that the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Nil’in, who have had weekly demonstrations for years, every Friday after the noon prayers, against The Wall that has taken so much of their lands are Closed Military Zones. That means: by Israeli military order, no non-residents (not other Palestinians, [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Barak Ravid reported in Haaretz, rather quickly after the announcement of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin’s almost-overdue phone call to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (she was in Moscow attending a meeting of the Quartet), on what Israel will do now to help mend its most important external relationship. Both the White House and [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, USA
Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Today, a friend was coming from Jerusalem to Ramallah, via the Qalandia checkpoint, and got stuck again in the middle as Israeli forces fired all they had at Palestinian demonstrators. She said that when Israeli soldiers fired stun grenades very near her car, the airbags reacted, the way they should in a major crash — [...]
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