Posted on October 25th, 2011 by Marian Houk
John Quigley, renowned legal scholar and professor of international law who has written several books on the Question of Palestine — and who believes that the state of Palestine already exists, based in the Palestine Liberation Organization’s 1988 Declaration of Independence — is in Ramallah for a few days. He will be speaking at a [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
Posted on December 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Jonathan Pollak, the Israeli anti-occupation activist who has just been sentenced to three months in jail for participating in a demonstration against tightened IDF-administered sanctions that affect over 1.5 million people in the closed Gaza Strip, has spoken to Haaretz’s Amira Hass about his conviction, and his convictions. The interview is published today, here. Pollak [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 7th, 2010 by Marian Houk
In a Op-Ed piece Avner Cohen co-authored with Marvin Miller [a research associate in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] that appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune on 25 August, the two wrote that “Opacity was first codified in a secret accord between President [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Israel, Nuclear technology and weapons, USA
Posted on September 16th, 2010 by Marian Houk
It was, as Franklin Lamb has written, “one of the most horrific crimes of the 20th century” … After the evacuation from Beirut [on a Greek ship, under a "UN umbrella"] of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters along with their leader, the late Yasser Arafat, some of those left behind — those in Sabra + [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Tawjihi (pronounced Taw – jee – hee, with accent on the middle syllable) is the exam taken by all Palestinian students at the end of their obligatory schooling. A whole year is devoted to preparing for the Tawjihi. It takes two weeks to take all the parts of the exam. Then it takes about [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by Marian Houk
If Israel was ambivalent (or of several minds) about the applicability of international law, prior to the Israeli naval assault on the Freedom Flotilla in the pre-dawn hours of 31 May, the Israeli government has now rediscovered its value. Professor Ruth Lapidot, a former legal adviser to Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is one of [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Ambassadors and other diplomats, Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Humanitarian Aid, International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Hossein Mousavian, a former lead Iranian nuclear negotiator has relocated to America, taking up residence at Princeton University, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Actually, he’s apparently been at Princeton for ten months already. Mousavian was been Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami [who preceeded the present President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad], then [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Ambassadors and other diplomats, Iran, Negotiators and negotiations, Nuclear technology and weapons
Posted on June 19th, 2010 by Marian Houk
This is Part Two, a continuation of extended excerpts from Reema Hammami’s article (from the Spring 2010 issue [No. 41] of Jerusalem Quarterly, edited by the estimable Salim Tamari), on the growth and tightening of Qalandia checkpoint — which has now become a “border terminal” between Ramallah and Jerusalem. Her article continues: “But how was [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on May 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
A Haaretz opinion article written by two Israeli academics argues that “Israel will enter negotiations with profound gaps between its goals for the diplomatic process and those of the Obama administration. Rather than a final-status solution, the Israelis prefer to manage the conflict and perpetuate the existing territorial reality. At the basis of this position [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on May 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Richard Silverstein has posted on his blog, Tikkun Olam, here, a youtube video of an Al-Jazeera TV interview with a tired but fit Noam Chomsky in Amman on Sunday evening, after both he and his daughter were denied entry into the West Bank earlier in the day: In the interview, Chomsky tells Al-Jazeera that he [...]
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