Posted on April 29th, 2011 by Marian Houk
It only takes a minute for everything to turn wrong. This was a special crowd situation — in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, after the announcement that Husni Mubarak was stepping down from his long-held — since the assassination of his predecessor, Anwar Sadat — post as Egypt’s president. There had been months of tension, weeks of [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Human Rights, Journalism and Journalists, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment
Posted on April 28th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, Founder and President of the Palestine Land Society, spoke at the Jerusalem Fund in Washington today about “Mapping Palestine: For its Survival and Destruction”: Video streaming by Ustream. In his speech, Dr. Abu Sitta — described here as a historical geographer and researcher who writes about Palestinian refugees and their right [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 27th, 2011 by Marian Houk
This was a surprise. The announcement came at the end of the day, in the early evening. Reuters broke the story. Hamas and Fatah, meeting in Cairo, had reached agreement on reconciliation. Further details were not immediately available, and only a few pieces of information filtered out as evening became night, and later. With the [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, USA
Posted on April 27th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The announcement came by email today, from Ben Or, an Israeli PR firm in Tel Aviv. The email says: “President Abbas has invited the leadership of the Israel Peace Initiative to the Mukaata [sic] in Ramallah to present their new regional peace initiative. The invitation follows the Palestinian President’s recent statement regarding his willingness to [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 26th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Does it matter? Yes. UPDATE: Ethan Bronner went over the translations with me by phone just now, and agrees that the English version we published is closer to the Hebrew text that he received. He says he did not do the translation into English, which was sent to him in the same mail as the [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
Posted on April 26th, 2011 by Marian Houk
At 7:45 in the morning on Sunday — it was Easter morning, which is not only a Christian holiday, it is also a Palestinian national and religious holiday, according to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad — my doorbell began to ring, loudly and insistently. Finally, leaving the bolt latched, I opened the door a crack. [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights
Posted on April 25th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Perhaps because this did NOT involve “security” matters, an Israeli lawyer representing a Palestinian arrested in the West Bank and taken to Israel to be charged with a minor crime is challenging this as a violation of international law. Haaretz is reporting here that Mohamed Beni Gama, a Palestinian resident of the West Bank, was arrested at his [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 25th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Today’s quote of the Day – the 16th in our series — comes from remarks made by Israeli historian Tom Segev, interviewed by Ed Sanders in the Los Angeles Times about the significance of the 1961 trial in Jerusalem of Nazi officer Adolph Eichmann, months after Eichmann was captured and secretly abducted from a hiding [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
This drama has played out on Twitter for the past 48 hours. Since the Jan25 revolution in Egypt led to Husni’s Mubarak’s forced resignation, there has been speculation about a new and more open Egyptian policy to Gaza. But, the adventures of two Egyptian guys [@dooolism and @tarekshalaby] trying to enter Gaza via Rafah (or, [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, Israel
Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
About ten days ago, as I was headed off to a conference in memory of Ibrahim Abu Lughod at Bir Zeit University (outside Ramallah), I was only able to get about 75 meters to my destination. Why? My leased car, which had been parked on the street, suddenly had three flat tires, all at once. [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
