Posted on May 14th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Reports came from Egypt last night, from Gaza this morning, from Ramallah this evening, and Israel tonight that some kind of deal had been agreed by Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to end their action in exchange for Israeli concessions on their demands. The news came as 4 of 8 Palestinian prisoners protesting their Administrative [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 17th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Palestinian Authority [P.A.] Prime Minister Salam Fayyad did not accompany the P.L.O.’s Chief Negotiator Sa’eb Erekat today to see Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as previously announced [ten days ago]. The meeting was held in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Jerusalem. Photo posted on YNet here and also on the website of the [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Though there was no announcement of either the time or the place that this will take place, reports indicate that Palestinian Authority P.A. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will deliver a letter today signed by Palestinian leader [and President of the State of Palestine] Mahmoud Abbas to Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. UPDATE: On the other [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The Times of Israel today published in English, here, the full text of the DRAFT letter that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been preparing to send to Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu later this week. The Times of Israel said that the DRAFT letter from Abbas was “bitter”. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid first wrote about this [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Here’s a photo by French journalist Emilie Baujard, taken at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport at midday today, showing press technicians waiting for the arrival of any Air Flotilla participants who managed to slip through the barriers at European airports before boarding flights to Ben Gurion today. Hundreds of tickets were cancelled at the request of [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This was published on Saturday in a post published here by Dimi Reider on +972 magazine [and tweeted on Sunday by @fqadi, here]. With the grammatical mistakes made in the form, one lawyer argued that it is logically impossible for any signer to be accused of membership in a “pro-Palestinian organization” — after all, anyone [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2012 by Marian Houk
There was a Tweet over the weekend signalling the start of the startling [not unusual but anachronistic, a throw-back to the darker days of the Second Palestinian Intifada] IDF punitive blockading of ar-Ram by large boulders put into place by construction equipment. A piece published in Haaretz, here makes an attempt at explanation: “The Israel [...]
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Posted on April 6th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen sent this Tweet today, with a photo from the ceremony in Sarajevo marking 20 years since the siege on the Bosnian: “Like a red scar through the heart of #Sarajevo. A chair each for the dead. Utterly and unbearably moving” Bowen [@jfjbowen] also Tweeted this: Concert soon to 11541 empty red [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Former Yugoslavia, Human Rights
Posted on April 1st, 2012 by Marian Houk
In an awful twist, Palestinian female prisoner Hana Shalabi is being sent to Gaza, as this post is being written, via Israel’s Erez Terminal, after a 43-day hunger strike that has put her life into danger. The International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly made arrangements to bring her family — from the West [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel
Posted on April 1st, 2012 by Marian Houk
Today is Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, the start of Easter Week. Palestinian + Israeli Christians and tourists from around the world are now going to a procession following the path that Jesus is believed to have taken some 1,979 years or so ago, when he entered Jerusalem on a donkey and was greeted by followers [...]
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