Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
There is something very awful about this.
The “tahdiya” or cease-fire or truce that Egypt negotiated between Israel (which refuses to talk to Hamas because of conditions that Israel said the UN has imposed) and Hamas was supposed to lead — after a halt in violence from both sides which started last Thursday — to a [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It appears that just as the revelation that Holocaust bank accounts had been retained for decades by Swiss banks without much effort to identify survivors or heirs was used to wrench modifications in the secrecy provisions that were the Swiss banking system’s greatest pride and asset, the disaster caused by the recent cyclone in Myanmar [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Journalism and Journalists, Myanmar, NGOs, USA, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This is Dahiet al-Bariid (the place where there is/was a post office) in northern Jerusalem.
The post office was on the Other side of The Wall, in the direction that most of these cars are heading, towards Ramallah (still about 20 minutes away, over roads in unbelievably bad condition, and skirting the Qalandia checkpoint).
The Wall is [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This says it all.
The UN, or some brilliant minds working in the Department of Public Information, together with some media advisors placed within the Secretary-General’s office (not the present one, though he hasn’t done anything to change this disgraceful system), thought that the way to get “good” coverage of the work of the UN — [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Claudia Rosset comments: “As Hollywood buffs and UN money-raisers already know, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has just named actor George Clooney as the UN’s newest Messenger of Peace, with a ’special focus on UN peacekeeping’. Clooney, currently visiting Sudan, is expected to ‘receive his designation’ Jan. 31st at UN headquarters in New York … The [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Sudan - Darfur, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Marian Houk
It wasn’t always possible for corporations to contribute to the United Nations…now, it has been announced that The United Nations emergency fund collected $420 million Thursday in voluntary pledges for 2008 relief programs … Western Union pledged $100,000, becoming the first corporate donor to contribute to the emergency fund … The fund received no pledges [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2007 by Marian Houk
… now when will the UN admit that the Millennium Development Goals (MDG, for short) are also the Emperor’s New Clothes, and utterly unverifiable either when they were stated at the millennium in 2000, or when they are supposed to be achieved, in 2015? How could the UN know how many people worldwide [...]
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Posted on October 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
I heard it from my friend in the Bethlehem Governorate. I had asked him how he and his colleagues had managed, since their salaries went unpaid until last month, following American and European sanctions imposed after Hamas took the most votes in January 2006 Palestinian elections.
Israel, the Americans, and some of the Europeans say [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Israel’s Kol Israel Radio, and the news agencies, are reporting that one Israeli bank — the largest Israeli bank, Bank Hapoalim — is cutting off relations with banks in Gaza, as a result of the Government’s recent decision to brand Gaza as an “hostile territory”/”enemy entity”.
The Jerusalem Post wrote Wednesday that Bank Hapoalim is “Israel’s [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Back in 1999, Azmi Bishara, the brilliant but over-wordy Israeli Arab member of Knesset (Israel’s Parliament) wrote that a Palestinian state is becoming an Israeli demand.
Bishara is now in somewhat-self-imposed exile, somewhere in the Arab world, to avoid probable indictment for having given some critical information to Hezbollah in a phone call last summer, during [...]
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