Posted on May 7th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Today is Day 70 [or is it Day 69?] of a historic hunger strike by two Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh. The two men are protesting the Israeli military orders of Administrative Detention under which they have been seized and kept prisoner without their [or their lawyers] knowing the details [...]
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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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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 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 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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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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Posted on March 28th, 2012 by Marian Houk
A colleague called me today as he was leaving Erez “terminal”, just coming out of Gaza after two days there. The situation of the people who don’t have any electricity, or any fuel, is terrible, he said. He asked, “Whose fault do you think it is”? [He said he is leaning toward blaming Hamas...] But, [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Day 62 of Khader Adnan’s hunger strike has begun like a vigil … The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society has issued a notice that, after numerous inquiries and expressions of concern, they have confirmed Adnan is still alive this morning. Earlier this week, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, a human rights organization working for better health care for [...]
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