Posted on May 4th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Today, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and the Hamas leadership are supposed to sign a reconciliation accord initialed by all 13 Palestinian factions in Cairo yesterday. This comes after a bitter, extremely bitter, rivalry between the two largest Palestinian political factions Here is an account — to mark this date, and “in the spirit [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 3rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
There are now reports that Osama/Usama Bin Laden’s wife was wounded, not killed, in the U.S. raid that killed him [and that another woman was wounded as well]. What happened to her, and to any others wounded, or simply present, inside the compound? Apparently, the U.S. special forces [Navy Seals???] took “computers” from the compound [...]
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Filed under: Guantanamo, Pakistan, USA
Posted on May 2nd, 2011 by Marian Houk
The transcript of the White House briefing, about 20 hours after Osama Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by American special forces, is now posted online here. President Obama’s counterterrorism Adviser John Brenner said to journalists this afternoon/evening that President Obama and his advisers watched the American operation that killed Ben Laden “in real time”, [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Human Rights, International Law, Pakistan, USA
Posted on May 2nd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Is the “War on Terror” now over? Can we go back to life the way it was before? Because, for sure, there’s no way to ask any questions about this. [Though, there are probably videos that will be shown later...] U.S. President Obama said it was a “targetted operation”… which “took care to avoid civilian [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Pakistan, USA
Posted on May 1st, 2011 by Marian Houk
According to a report by the Associated Press just published in Haaretz, Israel’s “Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz says he is delaying a cash transfer to the Palestinian Authority because of a new unity deal between rival Palestinian factions. Steinitz says he will hold up the transfer of $89 million in Palestinian tax funds and customs [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 1st, 2011 by Marian Houk
According to a report published in Haaretz today, here, the IDF is going to deploy fresh conscripts for May 15/Nakba Day protests along The Wall after crash training + “psychological preparation”. The IDF preparations are apparently geared not just to contain, if necessary, but also to actually prevent planned Palestinian civilian non-violent protests to mark [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 1st, 2011 by Marian Houk
NATO claims it targetted a command and control center in Tripoli. The Libyan government took journalists to the site. It was reportedly a compound with several buildings. Underneath one, there may or may not have been a bunker. One of the most comprehensive reports so far is written by Simon Denyer and Leila Fadel for [...]
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Filed under: Libya, NATO
