Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
DOES THIS NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO SAY IT ALL?
NETANYAHU CALLS ON PALESTINIANS TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AS “THE NATION STATE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE”
At the official launch of direct peace talks at the White House on Thursday (2 September), according to a report in Haaretz, “Netanyahu explained, addressing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas directly, that just as [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2010 by Marian Houk
Ehud Barak, Israel’s current Defense Minister Ehud Barak [who, as such, rules the West Bank, while Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is in charge of Israel within the "Green Line"] gave an interview to Haaretz from his office at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, published today, in which the editors say he has [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Haaretz (with an input from Reuters) reported today that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told journalists in Ramallah on Monday that it was important to know “What kind of state does Mr. Netanyahu have in mind when he says ‘Palestinian state? … I think this is a most fundamental question and I believe, without wishing [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
USAID just doesn’t know what to do with its money?
It could partly build a new school (it could build maybe one-fourth of a new school) with what it has agreed to spend in giving the Israeli team of the “Geneva Initiative” — not a deprived or unconnected group of people — to film certain [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Now, at last, at long last, the U.S. government has spoken out, and called incitement, “incitement”.
And it was on a Sunday, too, a day on which Washington is normally quiet.
The U.S. went further, and said that the remarks made by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in a sermon in a Jerusalem synagogue over [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on August 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The fact that he is old is no excuse.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said, in a sermon at a synagogue in Jerusalem this weekend, a few days before last-ditch efforts to hold Israeli-Palestinian direct talks in Washington, that “Abu Mazen [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] and all these evil people should perish from this world … God should [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Akiva Eldar reported in Haaretz overnight that the Palestinian negotiating team (meaning Sa’eb Erekat and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) have “delivered to the Americans an opinion prepared by Israeli jurists. The Palestinians say this paper proves that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the government has no authority to freeze construction on private land are [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Have we reached the summit of cynicism?
[Can we get any more cynical?]
Haaretz correspondent Avi Issacharov wrote on his Haaretz blog Sunday that “Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to resume direct negotiations with Israel on September 2 in Washington without any of his preconditions being met. Israel has not promised to end construction in [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
Here’s George Mitchell in Washington on Thursday, answering a question about Hamas (“the green elephant in the room”), after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced invitations to Israel and the Palestinian leadership to come to dinner on 1 September, and hold direct talks on 2 September.
In his answer, Mitchell is pretending that it [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2010 by Marian Houk
A new crop of billboards has gone up at strategic locations around Ramallah — that is, at the entrances to the city, where diplomats from donor countries is most likely to see them.
The second target seems to be the cadres of the Palestinian Authority’s various Ramallah-based ministries.
The billboards, sponsored by USAID, show headshots of various [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
