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 6th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a renewed appeal by a group of Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups to interfere in the military-administered fuel cuts to Gaza.
On 27 January, the Court rejected a first petition that was originally brought in late October, after the Israeli military made it clear [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Sanctions, UN Secretary-General
Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Quartet’s special envoy Tony Blair told a European Parliament panel on Tuesday that “the present strategy in Gaza is not working”.
The AP reported from Brussels that “Blair says the international community must rethink its strategy toward the Gaza area ruled by the anti-Israel Hamas organization. Blair says action must be taken to get [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Journalists from the Jerusalem Post actually expected Republican presidential candidate, Senator John McCain to know exactly where and in what areas East Jerusalem and the West Bank overlap (in the Palestinian view, which is shared by many UN member states).
At least McCain was honest enough to admit he did not know: “On some matters of [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The main focus in U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s visit to the Muqata’a Presidential Compound in Ramallah this afternoon was whether or not the Palestinians had agreed to resume post-Annapolis “core issue” and “final status” talks with Israel that have been disrupted since Israel’s ferocious assault on Gaza over the past week.
Rice was unusually [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Well, now the truth is laid bare. AP reported today that “Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accepted a part-time job as strategic adviser to the JP Morgan Chase and Co. bank, but it will not affect his work as an international Mideast peace envoy, a Blair spokeswoman in Israel said Thursday. [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
This Coca-Cola craving in Gaza was first reported by McClatchy newspapers’ Dion Nissenbaum on his blog, Checkpoint Jerusalem. Now it is confirmed yet again. And, Condoleeza Rice, I hope you’re paying attention — the Associated Press has reported that “Both Egyptian and Hamas officials said about 2,150 [Palestinian] pilgrims returned [from the Hajj] [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
After the Paris Donor Meeting on 17 December, the Quartet (U.S., European Union, Russia, and the UN Secretary-General) issued a statement in which they urged donors to resume direct aid to the Palestinian Authority.
Direct aid was stopped in early 2006, after Hamas won a majority of seats in elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Now, six [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Well, things are moving fast now here in the region…
USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore, who was just sworn in at a ceremony in Washington by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on 13 December, turned up in Jerusalem on 14 December – and then on the main road past Qalandia to Ramallah on 15 December, where [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Israel has been reducing fuel supplies to Gaza for some weeks now – though tightened Israeli sanctions against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip were supposed to go into effect only a week ago.
Gaza is totally dependent on Israeli supplies of fuel – including gas for cooking, gasoline for automobiles, and diesel to operate generators, [...]
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