Posted on March 13th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Five members of an Israeli family — including both parents and an infant — living in the northern West Bank settlement of Itamar, not far from Nablus, were brutally murdered in their home on Friday night. The bodies were discovered when their 12-year-old daughter returned home. Two boys (ages 2 and 6) may have survived, [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 12th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Uri Avnery has written, in his weekly article, that [sarcasm alert here] “JERUSALEM IS abuzz with brilliant new ideas. The brightest minds of our political establishment are grappling with the problems created by the ongoing Arab revolution that is reshaping the landscape around us”. The Avnery article continues: “Minister of Defense Ehud Barak has announced [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 8th, 2011 by Marian Houk
With a perfectly straight face, and their usual air of polite and respectful seriousness, the pioneering Israeli human rights organization GISHA is now challenging the religious discrimination that is apparent in the non-issuance of Israeli permits — to Palestinian Muslims locked inside Gaza — to pray at the third-holiest site in Islam, Al-Aqsa Mosque in [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 7th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Nabil El-Araby (ElAraby) has been named the Foreign Minister of the new Egypt. A brilliant choice. See his separate opinion on the Advisory Opinion on the Wall, here, written when he served as a Judge on the International Court of Justice: “What I consider relevant to emphasize is that this special responsibility [of the United [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Egypt, International Court of Justice - ICJ, United Nations
Posted on March 1st, 2011 by Marian Houk
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a regular session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that “Today the world’s eyes are fixed on Libya. We have seen Colonel Qadhafi’s security forces open fire on peaceful protestors again and again. They have used heavy weapons on unarmed civilians. Mercenaries and thugs [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Libya, UN General Assembly
