Posted on August 29th, 2011 by Marian Houk
As Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu works to follow-up on his faxes sent a week ago to leaders around the world urging them to oppose any Palestinian change of status at the United Nations, and as the U.S. sent a message from Washington [hand-delivered to Jericho by the U.S. Consul-General in Jerusalem last Friday] threatening [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, US in UN, United Nations
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Israel launched reprisal attacks on Gaza within hours of the Eilat-area attacks on Thursday 18 August. Not too long afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu went on Israeli television and told his country and the world that the PRC, a small resistance group in Gaza, was responsible — and that Popular Resistance Committee [PRC] leaders [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Acknowledging the significance and importance of the moment, after a chaotic day of ambushes, fighting and hot pursuit in the area of Eilat on Thursday — and some 48 hours of subsequent reprisal attacks on Gaza — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday that “Israel regrets the deaths of the three Egyptian policemen during [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Chris Gunness, UNRWA Spokesman based in the Agency’s Sheikh Jarrah office in Jerusalem, sent out a message Friday saying that “Many people around the world were shocked by the images of unarmed refugees being shot at as they fled from their homes, amid the firing on their refugee camp. But the good news is that [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine & Palestinians, Syria, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by Marian Houk
After attacks on a bus and a car and later on another target a bit north of the Israeli southern city of Eilat along the border between the Israeli Negev and the Egyptian Sinai on Thursday, there is incomprehension at subsequent Israeli air strikes on Gaza. The Israeli attacks on Gaza, hundreds of kilometers to [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 16th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Australian media analyst/publisher/journalist Mike Hitchen has just written a post on his blog, here, reporting that the Campaign to Ban Landmines has strongly condemned the IDF move — leaked and widely reported authoritatively in the Israeli media, though only coyly hinted at by the IDF spokespersons — to plant new mines in the Golan to [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Landmines, Palestine & Palestinians, Syria
Posted on August 15th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Afghanistan, Samer Allawi, a Palestinian from the West Bank, has been in Israeli detention for the past week, He was stopped and taken into custody just before crossing the border to Jordan, as he was returning to Afghanistan following a three-week visit to his home and family in the West [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 14th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Jamal Juma’, in an interview with Ida Audeh published on the Electronic Intifada [EI] website, said, about the announced intention of the Palestinian leadership to go to the UN in September, that: “We have been talking to the national forces and leftist and democratic forces and institutions, as well as to the Palestinian human rights [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by Marian Houk
This is a story that gets little reaction, despite more news coming in from time to time. This time, it’s from a report, presumably in Hebrew, published in an Israeli military magazine. The right-wing Israeli website, Arutz Sheva, is reporting here, that the latest edition of the Bemachaneh (On the Base) military magazine says that [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Landmines, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Syria, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
Posted on August 11th, 2011 by Marian Houk
This business venture has real potential to advance development of the Palestinian agricultural sector — which should be one of the motors of the Palestinian economy — and the date palm trees are on the verge of producing their first fruit in the coming weeks. But, if the water wells are destroyed, the date palm trees will soon die in the 50 degree Centigrade summer heat.
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Jordan, Palestine & Palestinians
