Posted on December 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
George Mitchell is still going through the motions. On his way back to the USA after a more-or-less useless visit to the region, he met yesterday in Brussels with Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s “Foreign Minister” (the exact title is High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy). Ashton is also Vice-President of the European [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, USA
Posted on October 18th, 2010 by Marian Houk
In a monthly report to the UN Security Council today, the UN political affairs department has just reported that: (1) “[Palestinian] Prime Minister Salam] Fayyad briefed AHLC [Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, meaning major donors] members as well as Arab League Foreign Ministers that commitments of donor funding for 2010 remain critically below what is necessary [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, UN Security Council
Posted on July 4th, 2010 by Marian Houk
An Israeli court on Sunday continued the detention of Hamas-affiliated East Jerusalem politician Mohammad Abu Tir for another week, until Monday 12 July. On the basis of a “deportation” order pending since 2006, Israeli Police took Abu Tir’s Permanent Residence ID card soon after he was released from jail in May, after serving a more-than-four-year [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, USA
Posted on June 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Facing possible “deportation” — whatever that means in the circumstances — from East Jerusalem, Mohammad Abu Tir, a Hamas-affiliated politician elected in January 2006 to the Palestine Legislative Council (PLC), was arrested this afternoon in Jerusalem (where he is not supposed to be, any more) reportedly by undercover Israeli police disguised as Palestinians, and taken to [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, USA
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
If anyone failed to understand the ever-so-careful language in the Quartet statement issued on Monday [following the Israeli cabinet pronouncements on Sunday] Tony Blair spelled it out perfectly clearly in an interview published in part on Tuesday [the rest is promised for later in the week] with the Jerusalem Post’s David Horovitz and Herb Keinon. [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Sanctions
Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
Monday 21 June 2010 Ram Cohen, principal of the Aleph High School in Tel Aviv, was summoned to appear before the Knesset Education Committee and the Minister of Education, Mr. Gideon Saar, today, as Cohen explained in an article published in YNet, “following my unequivocal words to my students, condemning the 43 year-old occupation and [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Russia has wanted to host an international conference on Middle East Peace since the start of the Annapolis process of direct negotiations in late November 2007. It wasn’t exactly a full international multilateral conference, but today the Quartet of Middle East negotiators (US, Russia, European Union + UN) met in Moscow — with their Special [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, European Union, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Negotiators and negotiations, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Russia, USA
Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Barak Ravid reported in Haaretz, rather quickly after the announcement of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin’s almost-overdue phone call to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (she was in Moscow attending a meeting of the Quartet), on what Israel will do now to help mend its most important external relationship. Both the White House and [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, USA
Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
A day before the Quartet (USA, EU, Russia + UN ) meets in Moscow, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton was (1.) in Jordan meeting King Abdallah II ["Jerusalem is a red line"] and (2.) in Ramallah to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen] on St Patrick’s Day — was she “wearing the [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
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 approach [...]
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