Posted on December 31st, 2011 by Marian Houk
The Israeli organization Zochrot [Remembrance] uploaded an extraordinary video on 27 December 2011 – the testimony of Amnon Neuman about the emptying of Palestinian villages and expelling the inhabitants to Gaza in the early years of the State of Israel, — which is posted here. Thanks to Adam Horowitz of Mondoweiss, who posted this video [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 29th, 2011 by Marian Houk
In this excerpt from his interview on Democracy Now, which can be read in full here, the just-released Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah gives his view of the current stage of the Egyptian revolution: AMY GOODMAN: Alaa, you, in court, refused to answer questions of the military court. Can you explain why, and also who [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Michael Sfard, a Tel Aviv-based Israeli lawyer who represents Palestinians aggrieved by the Israeli government and its policies, has been forcing Israeli clarification of its policies. Even when he loses a case, as happened on Monday in a ruling handed down by Israel’s Supreme Court on Israeli stone quarries operating in the West Bank [which [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Today is the third Anniversary of the launch of the IDF’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The 22-day operation was launched at 11:30 am or so, on 27 December 2008. In the first strikes, some 250 Hamas police were mowed down at their police academy graduation ceremony in Gaza City. The debate continues over whether [...]
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Posted on December 26th, 2011 by Marian Houk
An Israeli military judge in Ofer Military Prison/Court has halved the extension of Hussam Khader’s sentence of Administrative Detention — a victory of sorts. So, instead of serving a second 6-month [renewable] sentence of Administrative Detention in an Israeli jail, as determined two weeks ago in Ofer, the Israeli military judge reduced Hussam Khader’s present [...]
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Posted on December 25th, 2011 by Marian Houk
A child is born… And his father, Alaa, a prisoner of conscience in Egypt, has today been released from detention [while investigations continue]… The Egyptian blogger, Alaa [Abd El Fattah], has been jailed for weeks [54 days, as it happens] by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Armed Forces [SCAF], for refusing to appear before a [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Egypt, Human Rights
Posted on December 24th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Here is a tale that illustrates a number of things. Nablus, 3:30 pm on a sunny and relatively quiet Friday afternoon, at the entry to the city: an unmarked black SUV-type van, with very dark windows, was parked at 90 degree angle to road. The unmarked black van had a Palestinian Authority [PA] license or [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Because my Israeli Government Press Office [GPO] has not been renewed [wrongly, I am claiming] since 2010, I have been unable to travel to Gaza the way all accredited journalists here can travel, via Israel’s Erez crossing, or “terminal”. Therefore, I have only read about the relatively new phenomena of Hamas press cards. I first [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Amira Hass has written this, or things like this, in Haaretz before. But, it’s like Picasso’s Blue period — she keeps trying to explain what she sees, over and over again, until she finally captures its essence. [I have sometimes explained what I'm doing in the same way...] It isn’t that this time she finally [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by Marian Houk
This is only a preliminary report… and is still Breaking News – UPDATE: Nabil Shaath told journalists at a pre-Christmas in Bethlehem tonight [Thursday] that “I heard good news, basically, from Cairo … Hamas is willing to accept non-violence, basically, a long-term ‘hudna’, but they do not want us to talk about it very much [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, USA
