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 28th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“Tensions may be heating up again about Israeli reconstruction plans for a damaged ramp leading from the Western Wall Plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem, where Jewish worshippers pray at Judaism’s most sacred and revered site, up to the Mughrabi Gate entrance to the Haram as-Sharif mosque esplanade, the third holiest site of Islam. [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Uncategorized
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
An article reported from Gaza by the Christian Science Monitor on 16 June informs us that:
“…Severe fuel shortage has forced motorists to buy soybean oil to replace the diesel fuel and gasoline that Israel now provides to Gaza at a severely diminished quantity. Cooking oil sells for around $8 per gallon while gasoline on [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, 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 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
From Haaretz today, this headline and sub-head: “UNICEF severs ties with Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev: UN children’s fund says company owned by mogul has been involved in building settlements in W. Bank“.
And from the text of the story: “UNICEF decided to review its relationship with Leviev after a campaign by Adalah-NY and found ‘at [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Millennium Goals, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, Sanctions, UN Administration
