Posted on September 6th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Here, as published today in Haaretz, is the Israeli claim to an Exclusive Economic Zone in the Eastern Mediterranean — in an area that seems to be rich with newly-discovered undersea gas deposits [the two lighter blue zones, marked Leviathon and Tamar, are the two announced by Israel over the past two years or so]: [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Lebanon
Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Here are some excerpts, which I’m recording here as notes for the record, from a discussion about the Israeli seizure of the Flotillas headed to Gaza and Israel’s continuing naval blockade of Gaza, in comments made on a post on Mondoweiss, written by Steve Fake and published on 19 July, entitled “Destination? Gaza!: The Freedom [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, International Tribunals, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on February 4th, 2011 by Marian Houk
In a move stunning in its timing and significance, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu announced on Friday afternoon – with the Quartet’s Tony Blair standing by his side – that he now thinks it’s time, finally, to develop Palestinian-allocated offshore natural gas deposits buried under the eastern Mediterranean in maritime space, defined by mutual agreement [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Cyprus, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on December 20th, 2010 by Marian Houk
In continuing confirmation of our previous reporting about the Israeli government’s new appreciation for international law, the Israeli Foreign Ministry is now making an effort to explain the significance of the agreement it reached last Friday afternoon with Cyprus on how to delimit their overlapping maritime rights. The Israeli FM explained in an email to [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The first negotiated Israeli decision — negotiated, not imposed — was announced today from Cyprus. The Associated Press reported from the Cypriot capital Nicosia this evening that “Cyprus and Israel signed an accord Friday demarcating their maritime borders to facilitate a search for mineral deposits in the east Mediterranean where huge natural gas reserves have [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Marian Houk
A Libyan-chartered Greek ship flying the Moldovan flag and carrying 2,000 tons of food and medical supplies destined for Gaza has reportedly developed mechanical problems [in the engine? with communications devices?] overnight as it approached its declared destination of the Egyptian port of El-Arish. Israeli warships are reportedly tracking the Amalthea. The Israeli Minister of [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Sanctions
Posted on July 10th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Israeli Foreign Ministry officials told Haaretz that Minister Avigdor Lieberman has contacted the Greek and Moldovan Foreign Ministers, and asked them to stop a Moldovan-flagged cargo ship which intended to sail, imminently, from Greece to Gaza. Reports indicated, Saturday evening, that the ship had just sailed. The voyage for this ship from Greece to Gaza [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Uri Avnery has written in his weekly article that the Gush Shalom movement he heads sees “no reason to withdraw our Supreme Court petition to disband the Turkel commission [appointed to look into the Israeli handling of the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May] and to appoint an official State Commission of Inquiry”. According to Avnery: [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
2010.05.07 On 7 May, the Turkish relief organization IHH posted these remarks on its website [in a post entitled "Israel Is Acting Like Pirates"]: “Bulent Yildirim, President of IHH, said ‘If they harass the flotilla, what is left to separate the state of Israel from the pirates of Somalia?’ noting that the convoy will not [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
This statement, an IHH communication dated 31 May, is posted [still] on the IHH website. It is entitled: “Crisis Furthers In the Mediterranean, Turkish Government Expected To Intervene”, and is posted here. Here is the sub-title: “Israeli assault boats are harassing the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, which are carrying humanitarian aid to Palestine. 6 [...]
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