Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
The caption for this AP photo reads: “A journalist looks over newly excavated fortifications outside the Old City walls in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 22 2010. An Israeli archaeologist says the ancient fortifications date back 3,000 years to the time of the Bible’s King Solomon and offer evidence for the accuracy of the biblical narrative”.
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Israel, Journalism and Journalists
Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Citing “security reasons” – the ubiquitous and unanswerable catch-all phrase against which it is almost impossible to mount any defense — Israel’s Ministry of the Interior has just issued a six-month travel ban on map expert Khalil Toufakji. (His name is also spelled, in an alternative transliteration from Arabic into English, as Tafakji). Toufakji, like [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by Marian Houk
As settlers continue to take revenge from Palestinians for the murder of an Israeli settler in the West Bank near Nablus last Thursday, after which the Israeli Defense Forces shot three Palestinian men who are members of the Fatah movement headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, tensions continue among Palestinians about the measures taken. The [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Today is the 21st anniversary of the Proclamation, by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at a meeting on 15 November 1988 of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s National Council (PNC) in Algiers, of the still-unrealized State of Palestine. Still, today is marked as Palestinian Independence Day, here in Ramallah and the rest of the West [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Law, Israel
Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Marian Houk
Livescience.com has published an interesting article about a study of psychopaths. The article reports that according to University of Wisconsin clinical psychologist Joseph Newman: “Although not all psychopaths are violent, their kind of behavior is very destructive socially, and hurts our trust of other people”. The Livescience.com article added that “Scientists investigating the disorder commonly [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research
Posted on July 4th, 2009 by Marian Houk
For those who follow what is happening in and to Gaza, there is an interesting article in the Jerusalem Post that reported “Reeling from four damning reports in one week from human rights organizations about the IDF’s conduct in Operation Cast Lead, the sense among senior defense officials is that the ‘legal front’ against Israel [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has announced he will make a big speech this week [UPDATE: at the beginning of next week, Netanyahu's office confirmed this evening. FURTHER UPDATE: It will be delivered on Sunday at Bar-Ilan University, as Obama's speech was delivered at Cairo University. And, by the way, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal will [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Ambassadors and other diplomats, Boundaries & Borders, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Marian Houk
A former guard at the detention facilities in the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba has given a rare interview to the Associated Press describing abusive treatment of prisoners who were detained in Afghanistan and other parts of the world after the 9/11 attacks (on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Guantanamo, Human Rights, International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, USA
Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Daily Press Briefing Gonzalo R. Gallegos, Acting Deputy Spokesman Washington, DC August 6, 2008 … MR. GALLEGOS: Yes. QUESTION: Do you have some (inaudible) additional information for revoking the visas of the three Gaza students? What is the information? What is the additional information? Were they told what it is? And if they aren’t aware, [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Israeli human rights organization Gisha reported late on Sunday that “The U.S. Consulate tonight told Fulbright candidates from Gaza that it is restoring funding for the prestigious scholarship program and is ‘working closely’ with the government of Israel to secure permits for the students to leave Gaza in order to attend visa interviews at [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions, USA
