Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It really gets on your nerves, sometimes.
At a checkpoint this morning, the soldier took my passport, then barked: “Where are you from?” he asked.
“You mean where was I born? That’s different than where I am from. It’s written on my passport — New York”, I said.
[Huda reported that she was stopped at [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Japan, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Peace appears to be breaking out all over, after one of the gloomiest recent periods in the region, during which speculation about imminent war has been nearly non-stop .
The truce or calm (“tahdiya”) between Israel and Hamas – which the parties say they hope will last at least an initial six months — started at [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions, Shebaa Farms
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“The human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory remains grave”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour informed the members of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week.
Three new reports on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory were discussed at the Human Rights Council in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Kofi Annan, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a renewed appeal by a group of Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups to interfere in the military-administered fuel cuts to Gaza.
On 27 January, the Court rejected a first petition that was originally brought in late October, after the Israeli military made it clear [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Sanctions, UN Secretary-General
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
UN Secretary BAN Ki-Moon said, in a statement issued by his spokesman, that he was “deeply concerned at the recent announcement by the Israeli government to invite new tenders for construction in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem … The Government of Israel’s continued construction in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is contrary to international [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, USA, United Nations
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A guest post by Aletheia Kallos/MD:
i see ban [UNSG BAN Ki-Moon] has cut out the indignation & bluster
& is reduced to issuing warnings of the dangers of an improbable war
& the uncertainty of the fate of unmee has been institutionalized
& extended to fill out the present 6 month mandate
ending in july
from
http://www.maximsnews.com/news20080411unossgenglish10804110201.htm
ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: TERMINATING U.N. MISSION
COULD RESULT [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Ali Abunimah has written in the Electronic Intifada that “Compared with the international silence that surrounded Israel’s recent massacres of Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Gaza Strip, condemnation and condolences for the victims of the shooting attack that killed eight students at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem have been swift”.
Abunimah lists U.S. President George [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Aletheia Kallos has alerted me to the latest development in “Eritrea’s actually still ongoing farewell bash for UNMEE” (the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea) — Eritrea seems to be blocking the UN peacekeepers’ movement, and cutting off their food catering. The UN SG had his spokespeople issue a statement at today’s [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The UN announced that the main body of the UN Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has begin a “temporary relocation”, due to Eritrea’s blocade of diesel fuel supplies which poses a danger to the functioning and possibly to the lives of the peacekeepers. This “temporary relocation”, the UN says, is to [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Posted on February 9th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Another case in the world of diesel fuel deliberately withheld — this time, not in Gaza, but in Eritrea.
And it’s the Eritreans who are withholding it from the UN Peacekeeping mission in their country.
This is another good example, if more were needed (see South Lebanon-Israel now, and the Iraq-Kuwaiti boundary in the future) of why [...]
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