Posted on September 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Today’s quote of the day is from the Jerusalem Post interview with the Israeli military’s Coordinator of [Israeli] Government Activities in the [Palestinian] territories (COGAT), Major-General Eitan Dangot, who decides on a daily basis exactly what can get into or out of the Gaza Strip, or not: “The Palestinians in Gaza have for years been [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
A 14-month old boy died of tear gas inhalation in the Isawiyya neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Friday. The toddler was apparently at home when the tear gas was fired [by Israeli Border Police], though Israeli media reports misleadingly suggest that the child died “during a riot”. YNet is also reporting here that “a possibility [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
An Associated Press report published in Haaretz informs us that: “Turkish President Abdullah Gul said late Monday that Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla would have sparked war ‘in old times’.” Indeed. Gul repeated his country’s demand, made following the Israeli naval attack at sea on the Freedom Flotilla in the Eastern Mediterranean, [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Donors, Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Turkey
Posted on September 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
When Architect Frank Gehry pulled out of the Museum of Tolerance project being built by the Simon Wiesenthal Center with the backing of the Jerusalem Municipality on a corner of the ancient Mamilla Cemetary, he didn’t make his motives publicly clear. There was dissembling and vagueness all around. But, Gehry did pull out his drawings [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel
Posted on September 20th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The IDF’s Maj. Igor Moiseev, who was the Binyamin Brigade’s operations officer for two years, gave expert testimony during the sentencing phase of the trial of Bil’in activist Abdullah Abu Rahmeh in a military court last week that he was not aware of instructions banning the use of a certain weapon, the Ruger rifle, as [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 18th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The horror simply does not disappear. That there are other horrors in the world does not in any way diminish what happened 28 years ago in Sabra + Shatila, where massacres took place in two undefended Palestinian refugee camps in west Beirut. It was, indeed, “one of the most horrific crimes of the 20th century” [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
It was, indeed, “one of the most horrific crimes of the 20th century” … Franklin Lamb wrote in an article published in The Daily Star [Lebanon] yesterday that “The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied”. Lamb writes in that article, and in an [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Al-Jazeera has reported that “A Lebanese general who called the country’s prime minister, Saad Hariri, a liar and urged people to topple his government, has been summoned for questioning by the state, according to a judicial official. Brigadier-General Jamil Sayyed, who made the comments, was among four military officers who were jailed without charge for [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights, Lebanon, Syria
Posted on September 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
In reprisal for recent attacks on Israeli settlers in the West Bank that were supported — and claimed, sort of — by Hamas, and certainly also for recent rocket attacks from Hamas-ruled Gaza, Israeli troops shot and killed a 38-year-old Hamas operative in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank near Tulkarem [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 16th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Jerusalem Post’s well-connected Defense Correspondent Yaakov Katz has written, in an article published today, that “In contrast to the media, the IDF did not make a big deal Wednesday about the firing of at least two mortar shells containing phosphorus into Israel. Firstly, it is not the first time that phosphorus mortar shells were [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
