Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Standing on Jaffa Road with a group of journalists waiting for transport to Tel Aviv for a briefing by senior former Israeli military analysts about “Alternatives to a Two-State Solution”, we saw first a black security motorcycle with two black-helmeted and clothed men riding on it, racing in the direction of the Central Bus Station. [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Marian Houk
My friend and colleague Robert J. Parsons, a journalist in Geneva, sent me the news item below– a report from the Inter Press Service (IPS) about what happened to one of its correspondents.
Angry Arab also has a link to the Gaza Today blog here which picked up the same story as it was reported [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Despite the spin from both sides, it is not entirely clear what happened in a one-hour summit meeting on Tuesday between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
An Israeli official told journalists who were waiting at the summit site as the meeting was underway that he expected the two leaders would discuss [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Sanctions
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here are glimpses of the press at work — covering the summit meeting today in Sharm as-Sheikh between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Husni Mubarak:
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Filed under: Egypt, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Uncategorized
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
By following links on Dion Nissenbaum’s blog yesterday, I came across this 20 June post on blogging, from Adam Reilly’s blog for the Boston Phoenix,
DontQuoteMe
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“…there’s a lot of disagreement out there about what, exactly, ‘blogs’ and ‘bloggers’ are. Who decided, for example, that writing like a grown-up means you’re not blogging? [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board will be considering yet another resolution, on Monday, castigating Iran for questions about its past, present and future nuclear programs, as the Associated Press’s veteran writer in Vienna, George Jahn, reported in a dispatch filed earlier today.
Jahn writes that the growing pressure is aimed at wresting concessions from [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Journalism and Journalists, Nuclear technology and weapons, UN Security Council
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here are some excerpts from an apparently rare interview with Gore Vidal in last Sunday’s (25 May) issue of The Independent. The interview was done by Robert Chalmers:
“You would consider yourself to be living under a dishonourable regime?” “Absolutely.”
“With a corrupt president?” “Yes.”
“Who cheated his way to power?” “Oh, yes.”
“Is this the [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Journalism and Journalists, USA
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It appears that just as the revelation that Holocaust bank accounts had been retained for decades by Swiss banks without much effort to identify survivors or heirs was used to wrench modifications in the secrecy provisions that were the Swiss banking system’s greatest pride and asset, the disaster caused by the recent cyclone in Myanmar [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Journalism and Journalists, Myanmar, NGOs, USA, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
A Sudanese journalist working for Al-Jazeera Television was released from Guantanamo prison camp yesterday after six years of detention and sixteen months on a hunger strike. He was never charged with any crime.
Upon his arrival in Sudan, he was carried off the plane on a stretcher, and taken straight to the hospital.
AP quoted him [...]
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Filed under: Guantanamo, Journalism and Journalists, Sudan, USA
Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Haaretz is reporting that the Israeli Defense Forces is saying that its troops who killed Reuters cameraman in Gaza didn’t know they were firing at TV crew: “Israel Defense Forces troops were unable to identify Reuters News cameraman Fadel Shana as a journalist before they fired at him from a tank, the army said [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
