Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by Marian Houk
This is something I found out quite accidentally, in a discussion yesterday with a Palestinian official in Ramallah about the lack of reciprocity in Israeli-Palestinian relations [including Press accreditation for media]: This year, for the first time since the Israeli conquest in the June 1967 war, it seems journalists holding ONLY Israeli GPO press cards [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Read it for yourself: here below is the full text, in English, of a press release announcing new rules, as transmitted from the Israeli Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs in conjunction with the Israeli Government Press Office [GPO] which is part of the Prime Minister’s Office [PMO] currently headed by Benyamin Netanyahu. First, [...]
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Posted on December 21st, 2011 by Marian Houk
OK, here we go, in an experiment in new media journalism: I’m going to repost, in chronological order from first to last, my Tweets this morning on a story about Jerusalem. Some related background, by Khaled Abu Toameh, was published on 17 December in the Jerusalem Post here. [Maybe it's a bit rough, this experimental [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
This is a difficult subject for me to write about, but I shall start: On Monday 19 December, the a three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court held its first hearing in my petition for restoration of an Israeli press card [which I did have from mid-2007 until 2010]. For the past two years, I [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2011 by Marian Houk
I’ve spent a lot of time on Twitter this year, since the January 25 (#Jan25) demonstrations in Egypt that successfully demanded “Irhal” (Get Out!) the departure of the former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak — who left Cairo for Sharm as-Sheikh on 11 February, but who formalized military rule in his place. Demonstrations flared up again [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2011 by Marian Houk
An annual event at the pastoral tranquility of the UN office in Geneva — or, as it is known locally, the Palais des Nations, which is former home and site of the sad story of the League of Nations — the sheep-grazing of the lawns in October-November. The photo below was taken by the dashing [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Take a look at this article, published here: Look at the headline: The Children of Shu’fat Camp Rejoice at “Animals” Muppet Show . OK. Now, read the article itself. It’s not so long. It appears, from careful reading, that this WAFA article was produced entirely on the basis of a press release from UNRWA. In [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
23:55 pm: A Tweet from Turkish journalist @MahirZeynalov says that 11, not 10, Palestinian released prisoners has arrived in Ankara: “11 released Palestinian prisoners make sajdah right after they leave the plane in Ankara’s airport. Palestinian Amb. to Turkey met them”. UPDATE: The additional person appears to be a woman — perhaps the one [or [...]
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Posted on October 4th, 2011 by Marian Houk
It is a very strong statement – but apparently there is no agreement yet on a news boycott to stop the policy of strip-searching and “undressing” foreign and Arab journalists in Israel. The Foreign Press Association [FPA] in Israel today called this policy an “abomination”, and demanded that “it simply must stop”. It does not [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Israel launched reprisal attacks on Gaza within hours of the Eilat-area attacks on Thursday 18 August. Not too long afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu went on Israeli television and told his country and the world that the PRC, a small resistance group in Gaza, was responsible — and that Popular Resistance Committee [PRC] leaders [...]
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