Posted on June 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
In public remarks after his meeting with U.S. Special Envoy George Mitchell this evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu offered to come to Ramallah if the Palestinian side were ready for direct negotiations. It would be a first. Netanyahu told Mitchell, in front of the cameras: “I call on President Abu Mazen to come to [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on June 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Facing possible “deportation” — whatever that means in the circumstances — from East Jerusalem, Mohammad Abu Tir, a Hamas-affiliated politician elected in January 2006 to the Palestine Legislative Council (PLC), was arrested this afternoon in Jerusalem (where he is not supposed to be, any more) reportedly by undercover Israeli police disguised as Palestinians, and taken to [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, USA
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Hossein Mousavian, a former lead Iranian nuclear negotiator has relocated to America, taking up residence at Princeton University, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Actually, he’s apparently been at Princeton for ten months already. Mousavian was been Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami [who preceeded the present President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad], then [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
A stunning admission was published overnight on Richard Silverstein’s Tikun Olam blog, here: the Israeli Border Police person [apparently male] who finished off an already-wounded Ziad Julani in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of downtown East Jerusalem on 11 June, has reportedly admitted firing at “point blank range”. Why? Because, the Border Police person said, because [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
2010.05.07 On 7 May, the Turkish relief organization IHH posted these remarks on its website [in a post entitled "Israel Is Acting Like Pirates"]: “Bulent Yildirim, President of IHH, said ‘If they harass the flotilla, what is left to separate the state of Israel from the pirates of Somalia?’ noting that the convoy will not [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Cyprus, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
This statement, an IHH communication dated 31 May, is posted [still] on the IHH website. It is entitled: “Crisis Furthers In the Mediterranean, Turkish Government Expected To Intervene”, and is posted here. Here is the sub-title: “Israeli assault boats are harassing the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, which are carrying humanitarian aid to Palestine. 6 [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Here are extended excerpts of an interview with Mahmut Tural, Captain of The Mavi Marmara, about the Israeli Naval assault on the Freedom Flotilla that took place just before dawn on the 31st of May. The interview was posted on 16 June on the website of the Turkish relief organization IHH, which had chartered the [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Hagit Ofran of Peace Now is one of the Israeli experts on the settlements her compatriots are building in the West Bank [including East Jerusalem]. Hearing from Silwan on Sunday evening about the escalating clashes there, she went to see what was happening, and then posted her account, complete with photos and a video, on [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Marian Houk
After Hamas police on Sunday made a “forced withdrawal” from the Islamic Bank in Gaza of cash [belonging to an Islamic charity] that had been frozen by a decision of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Monetary Authority, Ma’an News reported on Monday that “officials within the banking sector said making withdrawals at gunpoint was not a good [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Clashes escalated on Sunday in Silwan, an Israeli Border Police official told YNet that “red lines” have been crossed with reported molotov cocktails being thrown, in addition to stones. YNet reported that clashes have continued since the announcement a week ago that the Jerusalem municipal planning committee had advanced a proposal to demolish 22 Palestinian [...]
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