Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Marian Houk
To listen to a clip from Marcel Khalife’s song, Passport, based on the poem by Mahmoud Darwish, click here .
Mahmoud Darwish’s final journey took him from the United States, where he died in a hospital in Texas apparently following complications after his third heart surgery, to Ramallah via Amman.
That made it possible for Lebanese [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Some interesting details on the Shebaa Farms issue from Nicholas Blanford in The National, an English-language paper published in Abu Dhabi :
“Securing the liberation of the Shebaa Farms has been a cornerstone of Fouad Siniora’s diplomacy since 2005 when he headed his first government. Mr Siniora said he believes that an Israeli withdrawal from the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Shebaa Farms, Syria, UN Peacekeeping, United Nations
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Peace appears to be breaking out all over, after one of the gloomiest recent periods in the region, during which speculation about imminent war has been nearly non-stop .
The truce or calm (“tahdiya”) between Israel and Hamas – which the parties say they hope will last at least an initial six months — started at [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions, Shebaa Farms
Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A Guest Post from Aletheia Kallos/MD:
from
http://www.stratfor.com/geopolitical_diary/geopolitical_diary_syria_and_israel_hint_peace_talks
Geopolitical Diary: Syria and Israel Hint at Peace Talks
April 24, 2008 | 0154 GMT
The morning of April 21, we woke up to a report in the Syrian media saying that Israel had agreed to hand the Golan Heights back to Syria in exchange for a peace agreement. The Syrian [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Nuclear technology and weapons, Syria
Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
In advance of the Arab League Summit Meeting — which is being attended by very few heads of state or government — that opened Saturday in Damascus, the UN rushed through several steps in its preparation for the formation of the tribunal to judge those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, Syria, The Hague, UN Secretary-General
Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Haaretz’s Meron Rapoport writes today that “Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema termed the assassination of Imad Mughniyah ‘terror’ in an interview to be published today in the popular Italian weekly L’espresso. He also said that Israeli assassinations of Hamas officials ’serve as an alibi for terror’. Concerning Mughniyah’s killing, ‘by my definition, [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Lebanon, Syria
Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
After the apparent assassination of Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus this week, a journalist (Benny Avni of the NY Sun, as it happens) asked if the UN will investigate this death, too. Here is the exchange, from 14 February daily noon briefing at UNHQ/NY — after which an clarification is later issued:
“Question: As to [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, Lebanon, UN Security Council
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
I was working on my computer, when suddenly my chair began to swivel. Or it seemed that the room began to sway. Like riding in a car on the roads full of potholes here. Nothing fell out of the cupboards, though. The sensation lasted under a minute. It was [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
None of the commentators who have expressed pleasure at news of the apparent death of Imad Mughniyeh is apparently embarrassed at all to say how happy they are, that he deserved to die as he apparently did in a car bomb explosion (in Damascus), or that the world is now better off for all this.
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Journalism and Journalists, Lebanon
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“A semi-military organization of a few thousand men resisted, for a few weeks, the strongest army in the Middle East, which enjoyed full air superiority and size and technology advantages. The barrage of rockets aimed at Israel’s civilian population lasted throughout the war, and the IDF did not provide an effective response to it. [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Shebaa Farms, UN Security Council
