Posted on April 17th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Though there was no announcement of either the time or the place that this will take place, reports indicate that Palestinian Authority P.A. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will deliver a letter today signed by Palestinian leader [and President of the State of Palestine] Mahmoud Abbas to Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. UPDATE: On the other [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The Times of Israel today published in English, here, the full text of the DRAFT letter that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been preparing to send to Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu later this week. The Times of Israel said that the DRAFT letter from Abbas was “bitter”. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid first wrote about this [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Here’s a photo by French journalist Emilie Baujard, taken at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport at midday today, showing press technicians waiting for the arrival of any Air Flotilla participants who managed to slip through the barriers at European airports before boarding flights to Ben Gurion today. Hundreds of tickets were cancelled at the request of [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This was published on Saturday in a post published here by Dimi Reider on +972 magazine [and tweeted on Sunday by @fqadi, here]. With the grammatical mistakes made in the form, one lawyer argued that it is logically impossible for any signer to be accused of membership in a “pro-Palestinian organization” — after all, anyone [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2012 by Marian Houk
There was a Tweet over the weekend signalling the start of the startling [not unusual but anachronistic, a throw-back to the darker days of the Second Palestinian Intifada] IDF punitive blockading of ar-Ram by large boulders put into place by construction equipment. A piece published in Haaretz, here makes an attempt at explanation: “The Israel [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2012 by Marian Houk
In advance of important talks with Iran about its nuclear program on 13 [or 14?] April [apparently in Istanbul, after all] Israeli Maj-Gen (res) Amos Gilad said in a briefing in Jerusalem this week that Iran, today, has ability to put together a nuclear weapon [but probably won't]. Iran does “have the know-how to assemble [...]
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Posted on April 7th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The Israel Project sent out an email over the weekend saying that Salam Fayyad, who had nothing to do with negotiations, will meet Benjamin Netanyahu next week about negotiations… The same news was published in a report by Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday [which cited the Israeli Prime Minister's Arabic-language media adviser Ofir Gendelman [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2012 by Marian Houk
It was so hot. It was the second hot day, after a long and dreary winter, one of the worst in recent years, most people here agree. And then, unexpectedly, there was such heavy traffic. It came to a standstill in the village of Huwwara, just south of Nablus. It was so hot, and the [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Barak Ravid, who reports for Haaretz, Tweeted late on 4 April: “I obtained a draft of the letter that Palestinian President Abbas is planning to give PM Netanyahu next week … In the letter Abbas will accuse the Netanyahu government of undermining Palestinian Authority” – article posted here“… Then, Ravid sent out Tweets with scans [...]
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Posted on April 1st, 2012 by Marian Houk
Today is Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, the start of Easter Week. Palestinian + Israeli Christians and tourists from around the world are now going to a procession following the path that Jesus is believed to have taken some 1,979 years or so ago, when he entered Jerusalem on a donkey and was greeted by followers [...]
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