Posted on April 17th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Palestinian Authority [P.A.] Prime Minister Salam Fayyad did not accompany the P.L.O.’s Chief Negotiator Sa’eb Erekat today to see Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as previously announced [ten days ago]. The meeting was held in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Jerusalem. Photo posted on YNet here and also on the website of the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
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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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
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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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
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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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
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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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 10th, 2012 by Marian Houk
As Iran’s enigmatic-by-necessity former nuclear negotiator Hossein Mosavian [now living in the U.S. after being jailed in Iran for his contacts abroad] has written, here [see previous articles, http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/274770], the six-country talks with Iran about its nuclear program that are scheduled to take place this weekend in Istanbul are the first time in nine years [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Nuclear technology and weapons, Sanctions, USA
Posted on April 9th, 2012 by Marian Houk
After some interesting moves over the past week, the positioning ahead of the 6-nation talks with Iran about its nuclear program is getting tedious. The “P5+1″ talks with Iran [or, as the Europeans prefer to call them, "P3+3"] countries — Germany, Britain, France, China, Russia, and the U.S. — will be held either on the [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Negotiators and negotiations
Posted on April 8th, 2012 by Marian Houk
In advance of important talks with Iran about its nuclear program on 13 [or 14?] April [apparently in Istanbul, after all] Israeli Maj-Gen (res) Amos Gilad said in a briefing in Jerusalem this week that Iran, today, has ability to put together a nuclear weapon [but probably won't]. Iran does “have the know-how to assemble [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Negotiators and negotiations, Nuclear technology and weapons, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Security Council, USA
Posted on April 7th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The Israel Project sent out an email over the weekend saying that Salam Fayyad, who had nothing to do with negotiations, will meet Benjamin Netanyahu next week about negotiations… The same news was published in a report by Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday [which cited the Israeli Prime Minister's Arabic-language media adviser Ofir Gendelman [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
