Posted on March 13th, 2010 by Marian Houk
A very interesting post by Max Blumenthal: “As the anti-Goldstone, human rights-bashing Lawfare Project’s opening event on March 11 wrapped up, I asked its chairman, Columbia University Law School Dean David Schizer, for an interview. Schizer, who had just attacked the Goldstone Report from the podium, pointedly refused to speak to me and looked for [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Gaza, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Marian Houk
What happens when Israeli Border Police decide to stage a massive raid — looking for “tax delinquents” as well as “illegal West Bank worker” — in Shuafat Refugee Camp (the only Palestinian refugee camp inside the boundaries of what Israel unilaterally defined as the “Greater Jerusalem Municipality” in 1967?
The legal residents of the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Last Friday afternoon, Israeli police arrested 17 Israeli anti-occupation demonstrators who had crossed the Green Line and assembled in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, where over the last year three families have been thrown out of homes built for them in the early 1950s by the the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The Jerusalem Post’s well-informed Defense correspondent, Yaakov Katz, has reported that “The IDF is close to completing a comprehensive report that will respond to the accusations that were leveled at the military by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, more commonly known as the Goldstone Report. Work on the report began [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by Marian Houk
As settlers continue to take revenge from Palestinians for the murder of an Israeli settler in the West Bank near Nablus last Thursday, after which the Israeli Defense Forces shot three Palestinian men who are members of the Fatah movement headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, tensions continue among Palestinians about the measures taken. [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 28th, 2009 by Marian Houk
What upset the Palestinian Authority officials after the IDF raids on Nablus in which three “suspected” or “wanted” Palestinian men, all members of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, were shot in what not only Palestinians but also some Israelis (such as the human rights organization B’Tselem) say were “extrajudicial killings”?
Haaretz tells us that “The PA [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 27th, 2009 by Marian Houk
An Israeli settler living in the Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron deep in the West Bank, territory occupied by Israel in June 1967 (and claimed by the Palestine Liberation Organization for the future Palestinian state) was shot and killed on Thursday while driving on a road near where he has made his home.
The next day, [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Yasuf Mosque, in Salfit Governorate of the northern West Bank, was attacked last week by Israeli settlers.
(The Israeli political establishment and major international players all expressed shock and denounced the attack. It seems that attacking a mosque is worse, and taken more seriously, than attacking anything else. Certainly there are fears that it is more [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Here is the graphic of the map, as Haaretz reconstructed it, of the “unprecedented” offer made during direct contacts in 2008 between Israel’s then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen ):
The accompanying article, published in Haaretz today, was written by Aluf Benn, who reported that “Former prime minister Ehud Olmert [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday that there is a big “pilgrimage” being planned for Thursday by a “group of activists dedicated to bringing Jews to the Temple Mount” (known to Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif, where Al-Aqsa Mosque is located, in the Old City of East Jerusalem.
The JPost story said that these activists “were [...]
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