Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Marian Houk
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in Washington today that: “I spoke today with Quartet Representative Blair to discuss developments in the Middle East. This Administration has, from the beginning, worked to bring about comprehensive peace in the Middle East, including a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On that issue our [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
Food for thought: Today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, in her remarks to the press after her meeting at the State Department in Washington D.C. with the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton, that: “Together, we have a population of 800 million, a $27 trillion economy, a zone of peace, [...]
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Filed under: Donors, European Union, Quartet, USA
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Akiva Eldar has reported in Haaretz that the new European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton of Upholland (who has replaced Javier Solana), said in an address to members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg that “she had spoken with Israelis, Palestinians and the U.S. Secretary of State about [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Financial Times has published, today, an OpEd piece by Chris Patten [co-chair of the International Crisis Group and a former European commissioner for external affairs] on last week’s statement of policy on Palestine and Israel:
“It was not quite as good as it should have been. Acting seemingly on instruction from Israel’s foreign ministry, Italy, [...]
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Filed under: Donors, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on November 1st, 2009 by Marian Houk
After huffing and puffing to blow the house down (well, to sue the Palestinian Authority, for Israel’s refusal to release sufficient telecommunications wavelengths), the Qatari and Kuwaiti-owned Wataniya mobile phone company made the surprise announcement that it had launched its service in Palestine today, just two weeks after the planned date — and despite Israel’s [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Qatar, Quartet
Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Marian Houk
It was announced that President Obama’s Special Envoy George Mitchell (who has also been claimed as Special Envoy for U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, is travelling back to the Middle East on Friday.
That means he should be here by Saturday.
But, according to the U.S. State Department spokesperson Philip J. Crowley, Mitchell will be “in [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, UN General Assembly, USA
Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Marian Houk
On the sidelines of a meeting of the G-8 countries in Trieste, Italy, the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, European Union, Russian Federation, and the United States) — joined by Quartet Representative Tony Blair — met to review the situation in the region, and issued a statement on Friday that reflected the somewhat tougher tone [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Register of damages due to The Wall, Sanctions
Posted on March 14th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Former U.S. National Security Advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, and former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, are among the ten authors of a newly-revealed letter handed to Barack Obama just before his inauguration, urging the new president-elect to change policy and make contact with Hamas.
This was revealed today in a story published by the [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Sanctions, United Nations
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Is the Quartet coming apart?
One of the Quartet’s four members — the European Union — is keeping up a sustained post-Gaza-war resistance to Israeli policies in East Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, the Israeli threats in recent weeks to demolish over a hundred Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem (88 in Silwan, 55 in Shua’fat refugee camp, [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Robert Serry, told the UN Security Council today that “the inconclusive results of last year’s Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and unmet Road Map obligations, especially regarding settlements” are realities that must be faced — and “squarely addressed”.
Of course, the Serry statement was balanced. Carefully balanced.
But there [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Register of damages due to The Wall, Sanctions, UN Security Council
