Posted on September 16th, 2011 by Marian Houk
As we wrote in our post last year, here, which we published on 18 September 1982, the day the world found out what had been going on for at least the previous 48 hours: The horror simply does not disappear. That there are other horrors in the world does not in any way diminish what [...]
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Filed under: French, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
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 March 19th, 2011 by Marian Houk
In a silly but revealing interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu made several noteworthy quotes. The choice, for our Quote of the Day series, however, will go to his remarks explicitly saying that “several Palestinian terrorists” are responsible — though no one has yet been charged, much less tried or convicted [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Iran, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
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 September 18th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The horror simply does not disappear. That there are other horrors in the world does not in any way diminish what happened 28 years ago in Sabra + Shatila, where massacres took place in two undefended Palestinian refugee camps in west Beirut. It was, indeed, “one of the most horrific crimes of the 20th century” [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
It was, indeed, “one of the most horrific crimes of the 20th century” … Franklin Lamb wrote in an article published in The Daily Star [Lebanon] yesterday that “The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied”. Lamb writes in that article, and in an [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Al-Jazeera has reported that “A Lebanese general who called the country’s prime minister, Saad Hariri, a liar and urged people to topple his government, has been summoned for questioning by the state, according to a judicial official. Brigadier-General Jamil Sayyed, who made the comments, was among four military officers who were jailed without charge for [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights, Lebanon, Syria
Posted on September 16th, 2010 by Marian Houk
It was, as Franklin Lamb has written, “one of the most horrific crimes of the 20th century” … After the evacuation from Beirut [on a Greek ship, under a "UN umbrella"] of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters along with their leader, the late Yasser Arafat, some of those left behind — those in Sabra + [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Human Rights, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 9th, 2010 by Marian Houk
According to a report on France 24, Lebanon’s current Prime Minister Saad Hariri (son of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri who was assassinated by bombing as his car drove in the Lebanese capital Beirut on 14 February 2005), has now admitted, in an interview with the London-based, Saudi-owned “Pan-Arab” newspaper AshSharq al Awsat, that: “At [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Lebanon, Syria
Posted on August 28th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The worst and most excruciatingly awful show on Palestinian TV is a wierd, arrogant, and embarassing nightly half-hour which has now become a part of the Ramadan post-Iftar must-watch family programming that airs every evening after the day’s fast is broken, the table has been cleared, and the formerly drooping audience its not quite yet [...]
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Filed under: Journalism and Journalists, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
