Posted on January 7th, 2012 by Marian Houk
In an otherwise uninteresting commentary published as an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Dennis Ross, adviser to several American presidents on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, suggested that … as Israel’s Supreme Court has just recommended that there should be “no additional quarries” in the West Bank that are Israeli-owned, there is now some sort of [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Acknowledging the significance and importance of the moment, after a chaotic day of ambushes, fighting and hot pursuit in the area of Eilat on Thursday — and some 48 hours of subsequent reprisal attacks on Gaza — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday that “Israel regrets the deaths of the three Egyptian policemen during [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 4th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Today, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and the Hamas leadership are supposed to sign a reconciliation accord initialed by all 13 Palestinian factions in Cairo yesterday. This comes after a bitter, extremely bitter, rivalry between the two largest Palestinian political factions Here is an account — to mark this date, and “in the spirit [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 28th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, Founder and President of the Palestine Land Society, spoke at the Jerusalem Fund in Washington today about “Mapping Palestine: For its Survival and Destruction”: Video streaming by Ustream. In his speech, Dr. Abu Sitta — described here as a historical geographer and researcher who writes about Palestinian refugees and their right [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 27th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The announcement came by email today, from Ben Or, an Israeli PR firm in Tel Aviv. The email says: “President Abbas has invited the leadership of the Israel Peace Initiative to the Mukaata [sic] in Ramallah to present their new regional peace initiative. The invitation follows the Palestinian President’s recent statement regarding his willingness to [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 26th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Does it matter? Yes. UPDATE: Ethan Bronner went over the translations with me by phone just now, and agrees that the English version we published is closer to the Hebrew text that he received. He says he did not do the translation into English, which was sent to him in the same mail as the [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
Posted on April 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
A reliable source has indicated that Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister who is now the part-time Special Middle East Envoy of the Quartet, is moving his office out of the legendary American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem. Blair’s presence — and its overbearing security requirements — has contributed to ruining the American Colony [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on March 12th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Uri Avnery has written, in his weekly article, that [sarcasm alert here] “JERUSALEM IS abuzz with brilliant new ideas. The brightest minds of our political establishment are grappling with the problems created by the ongoing Arab revolution that is reshaping the landscape around us”. The Avnery article continues: “Minister of Defense Ehud Barak has announced [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 11th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, wrapped up Friday a couple of days visit in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. (0Pt = UN terminology, adopted from the 2004 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Wall, which she mentions below). In a statement to the media, Pillay [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
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
