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 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 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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Posted on February 16th, 2012 by Marian Houk
With all the international attention now coming to the 61-Day Hunger Strike being carried out by Khader Adnan after he was seized from his home on December 17 in a village near Jenin in a pre-dawn raid that in which he and his terrified pregnant wife and two daughters were abused, is his treatment getting [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2012 by Marian Houk
NGO Monitor today said that the use of the term “Judaization” yesterday by Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, to describe Israeli housing policies, was “antisemitic” and “immoral”, and called for her immediate resignation. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights earlier posted a press release [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2012 by Marian Houk
As Palestinian protestors outside Ofer Prison were surrounded by tear gas and hit by rubber bullets fired by Israeli soldiers [at "Beitunia Checkpoint"] today [the second such demonstration in three days], an Israeli military court inside Ofer affirmed the 4-month sentence of Administrative Detention that was imposed on Khader Adnan on January 8. UPDATE: Addameer [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Israeli policies on housing have been — and continue in new ways to be — discriminatory, according to the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik. Rolnik concluded a 12-day official visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory [oPt, in UN terminology] on Sunday, and discussed her [...]
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