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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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
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 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The UN Security Council met with relative efficiency on Saturday afternoon at UNHQ/NY and voted unanimously [15-0] to send an advance team of some 30 unarmed military observers to Syria, as an advance team of monitors to observe compliance with a six-point plan by “Joint Envoy” Kofi Annan to stop the violence that has killed [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Human Rights, Kofi Annan, Syria, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
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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Posted on April 1st, 2012 by Marian Houk
Hebron is the only Palestinian city outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank where Israeli settlers are living in the midst of a Palestinian population. It is not a situation where good neighborliness abounds. Yes, there was a Jewish community in Hebron which became victim to enraged Palestinian mobs in 1929, and a horrible massacre [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2012 by Marian Houk
Today’s recommended reading [published during the last week]: Andrew Sullivan in The Daily Beast on “Why Continue To Build The Settlements?” — a review of the much-discussed book [or, polemic, as Sullivan writes] by Peter Beinart, The Crisis of Zionism. Sullivan writes: “Let us be clear. The Israeli government is systematically taking and holding the [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2012 by Marian Houk
March 30 protests [in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, as well as inside Israel and just outside its northern and eastern perimeters] marked the start of Year Two of Popular Protests against … continued Israeli occupation. It was, this year, a combination of the Global March to Jerusalem + Land Day. The day started [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
