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 July 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
On Tuesday evening, at almost the very last minute, I received a press invitation to attend a reading
by the enormously important and iconic Palestinian poets, Mahmoud Darwish, in Ramallah.
I had just returned from Ramallah — and experienced the worst traffic situation I had ever been in, around the fortress Qalandia checkpoint which Israel now describes [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
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 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 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
There is something very awful about this.
The “tahdiya” or cease-fire or truce that Egypt negotiated between Israel (which refuses to talk to Hamas because of conditions that Israel said the UN has imposed) and Hamas was supposed to lead — after a halt in violence from both sides which started last Thursday — to a [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
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 shots taken from our airport bus as we were waiting to go into the terminal at Sharm as-Sheikh. We were trying to cover the summit meeting between Egyptian President Husni Mubarak, who is shown arriving in his Egypt Air jet taxing around the runway to a concrete reinforced protocol bunker.
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Filed under: Egypt, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
A view from the lobby of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem over to the nearby French Consulate, where both French and European flags flew as French President Sarkozy meet a delegation of Palestinians, including Hanan Ashrawi from Ramallah, and a group of businesspersons from Jerusalem — who all said they felt “reassured” after the [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
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 June 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“The human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory remains grave”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour informed the members of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week.
Three new reports on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory were discussed at the Human Rights Council in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Kofi Annan, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Palestine & Palestinians
