Posted on September 16th, 2011 by Marian Houk
As we wrote in our post last year, here, which we published on 18 September 1982, the day the world found out what had been going on for at least the previous 48 hours: The horror simply does not disappear. That there are other horrors in the world does not in any way diminish what [...]
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Filed under: French, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Was the UNSG taking a diplomatic half-step back from his earlier support for a long-overdue Palestinian State? What he said, at a hastily-summoned press conference at UNHQ/NY on Thursday, was exactly this: “I am profoundly troubled by the lack of progress in the peace negotiations. It is vital that they resume. Ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, US in UN
Posted on September 10th, 2011 by Marian Houk
During a visit to Canberra, Australia, the UN Secretary-General BAN Ki-Moon made headlines here, and probably around the world, by saying that a Palestinian state is “long overdue”. AFP reported that the UNSG said: “The two state vision where Israel and Palestinians can live… side by side in peace and security — that is a [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Palestine & Palestinians, US in UN, USA
Posted on September 6th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Here, as published today in Haaretz, is the Israeli claim to an Exclusive Economic Zone in the Eastern Mediterranean — in an area that seems to be rich with newly-discovered undersea gas deposits [the two lighter blue zones, marked Leviathon and Tamar, are the two announced by Israel over the past two years or so]: [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Lebanon
Posted on September 1st, 2011 by Marian Houk
The New York Times has posted a leaked, advance copy of the “Final” Report commissioned by the UN Secretary-General on how to avoid a repetition of the mayhem and deaths that occurred during the Israeli naval interception on the high seas of a Freedom Flotilla aiming to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. During the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Sanctions, Turkey, UN Secretary-General
