Posted on July 10th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Israeli Foreign Ministry officials told Haaretz that Minister Avigdor Lieberman has contacted the Greek and Moldovan Foreign Ministers, and asked them to stop a Moldovan-flagged cargo ship which intended to sail, imminently, from Greece to Gaza. Reports indicated, Saturday evening, that the ship had just sailed. The voyage for this ship from Greece to Gaza [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Two Turkish-speaking Israelis who were asked to interpret after the Israeli naval assault at sea on the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, and the subsequent processing of some 700 passengers and crew in Ashdod port and beyond, wrote about their experience and their views of who was on board in a piece published on Zeek.Forward.com. [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Later today, the Israeli Foreign Ministry is expected to publish a new list — of items forbidden to enter Gaza. This is the revamp of Israel’s sanctions policy that was announced in the wake of the 31 May Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla attempting to “break the siege on Gaza” by sea, which resulted [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu: “Today, after we lifted the civilian blockade of Gaza there is no reason or justification for further flotillas”… From a report in Haaretz here. According to this article, Netanyahu also said that “These people just want to break the security blockade”. And Haaretz reported, Netanyahu said that “the list of [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press reported Tuesday evening that Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told “ultra-Orthodox soldiers in Kiryat Shmona” that “We have a natural right to examine and prevent the inflow of weapons into Gaza … For those who are truly concerned about the [humanitarian] situation in Gaza and wants to bring medical [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
If anyone failed to understand the ever-so-careful language in the Quartet statement issued on Monday [following the Israeli cabinet pronouncements on Sunday] Tony Blair spelled it out perfectly clearly in an interview published in part on Tuesday [the rest is promised for later in the week] with the Jerusalem Post’s David Horovitz and Herb Keinon. [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
Monday 21 June 2010 Ram Cohen, principal of the Aleph High School in Tel Aviv, was summoned to appear before the Knesset Education Committee and the Minister of Education, Mr. Gideon Saar, today, as Cohen explained in an article published in YNet, “following my unequivocal words to my students, condemning the 43 year-old occupation and [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
According to my first morning sms, the Lebanese Transport Minister has told the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation that the two boats planning to sail to Gaza — the Lebanese Flotilla — have been given permits to go to Cyprus. He indicated that it will then be up to Cyprus to decide if these Lebanese ships can [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Human Rights Watch has just sent out an email that started out by criticizing the weak mandate that it said undermines the credibility of the three-member panel appointed by the government to look into the Freedom Flotilla and also at the Israeli naval raid on the Flotilla at sea (in which at least 9 Turkish [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Marian Houk
It now appears, two weeks after the Israeli naval raid on the Freedom Flotilla bound for Gaza, that the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza’s maritime space will only be strengthened, with European and American help to engage in a complicated inspection regime in the Mediterranean Sea — while Israeli military-administered sanctions against Gaza via its [...]
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