Posted on November 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
That’s right: 63 years ago today, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 181 which calls for the establishment of a Jewish State and an Arab State in Palestine. For 63 years, the “international community” as we know it has backed the establishment of a Jewish State. Six months later, the State of Israel was proclaimed [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN History
Posted on November 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Posted on November 26th, 2010 by Marian Houk
American-Palestinian businessman Sam Bahour, living in Ramallah, writes in Haaretz today another version of his recent analysis criticizing “feel-good plans” to solve the Middle East morass by providing jobs (primarily factory assembly-line jobs) to Palestinians in the West Bank to invest them into salaries, pensions (and, ultimately, even mortagages — something previously unheard-of in Palestinian [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Environment, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on November 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Palestinian Deputy Minister of Information, Mutawakkel Taha (a poet who was formerly head of the Palestinian writers union) has apparently published a 5-page document in Arabic on his Ministry’s website presenting an unreformed position arguing Muslim “ownership” of the site. It was not immediately possible to find this document, or determine what, exactly, it [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on November 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Israeli Ministry of Tourism has just welcomed visitor 3,000,001 in 2001 — a record, apparently. And, it is launching a four-month advertising campaign on Fashion TV (because, it says, FTV viewers are “a broad quality market with the means to travel to Israel”) — a campaign that is expected to be viewed in some [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Marian Houk
French President Nicholas Sarkozy, who looked years younger (with the aid of pink powder? Or was it due to his wife’s care?) during an astonishing interview in mid-November with three famous French TV journalist (during which he made an astonishing and evidently well-rehearsed ode to his wife — why not talk about politics and take [...]
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Filed under: Corruption, French, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Palestinian map expert Khalil Tufakji has reported that he was summoned to the Russian Compound in West Jerusalem on Tuesday to be informed that the travel ban imposed on him six months ago, would be extended for another six months. This time, however, Tufakji indicated he intends to appeal the decision. The Israeli human rights [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Today, at dawn, the rebuilt tent structures that now constitute the unrecognized Israeli Bedouin village of Al-Araqib (Al-Arakib) in the Negev were destroyed, again — for the seventh time — by Israeli bulldozers protected by Israeli military forces. Israeli bulldozers, destroying tents housing Israeli citizens, some of whom served in the Israeli Defense Forces… in [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel
Posted on November 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Dear Readers, I am travelling and am on the road in France…Will post when possible, which will not be often… I do expect to be back in Jerusalem by end November. Happy holidays to all…
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Posted on November 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said in an interview with the Saudi-owned, London-based Arabic-language daily newspaper that “While continuing Israeli settlement activity is undoubtedly bad, it is not as serious and threatening as these American guarantees and undertakings. Let us consider the issue of keeping an Israeli security presence in the Jordan Valley: The [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
