Posted on October 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Allah Yerhamu – May God have mercy on him. Thia is an Arabic phrase spoken after the news of someone’s death. A communication over military radio between D-9 bulldozers operating in Gaza when American activist Rachel Corrie was trying to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home in the spring of 2003. Corrie had just [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2010 by Marian Houk
According to a report by AP, Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist who has analyzed Omar Khadr, the now-24-year-old Canadian citizen who has been imprisoned in extreme conditions at Guantanamo Bay prison since he was captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15, “Khadr was an extremist when he was taken to Guantanamo, where he [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Via Mondoweiss, who thanks Max Blumenthal, and via jkdamours’s Channel on Youtube, an enormously witty and spot-on protest of the Israeli occupation at the OECD Tourism Conference in Jerusalem last week: As delegates turn up in a bus for a dinner at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, cool Israeli protestors have blindfolded, bound people with [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on October 24th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Here’s former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, wading right into the middle of the weekly Friday demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah on 22 October, accompanied by two other members of The Elders visiting the region, including delegation leader Mary Robinson and Ela Bhatt — and a whole squad of nervous U.S. security agents, some in suits, and [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
…but you still won’t really feel the oppressive heat pounding down under the sun’s rays … Machsom Watch [Checkpoint Watch] – a group of Israeli women against the occupation and for human rights, who monitor the situation at Israeli military checkpoints and Israeli military courts in the occupied Palestinian West Bank – have put together [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Asked by the U.S. government to refrain from publishing the anticipated WikiLeaks documents on Iraq, the American and international media is doing exactly the opposite. The media coverage is extensive, and impressive work has already gone into analyzing the data – described as being mainly “secret field reports”. An Al-Jazeera feature, about 7 minutes long, [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Journalism and Journalists, USA
Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Said Ghazali
At the conference on Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations – from Camp David to the present day, held at the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem last Tuesday, my two questions were left unanswered. Anybody could guess what they were? Of course not, has anybody got possessed by any supernatural intellect power to read what’s in my mind? But [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Elders delegation visiting the region visited the weekly Friday demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah today, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said, according to a report in Hazaretz, that “the eviction of Palestinians from their homes might be in accordance with Israeli law, but is against international law”.
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Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
As a delegation of The Elders wrap up their current Middle East visit, delegation leader Mary Robinson said in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon, according to their press release, that “Jerusalem lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and agreement on its future must also be at the heart of any solution. The changing ethnic [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
A delegation of The Elders, headed by Mary Robinson and including Jimmy Carter [see our previous posts here] visited Silwan, a hotspot in East Jerusalem just outside of the walls of the Old City of East Jerusalem, and downwind of two major Islamic sites — Al Aqsa Mosque, and the Dome of the Rock — [...]
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