Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Free Gaza expedition of two ships that left Cyprus Friday morning heading for the Gaza Strip is now reporting that electronic jamming measures have started, directed apparently against them.
A statement reports that “At 10am this morning, the Cyprus team of the Free Gaza Movement was able to briefly speak with our people on board [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It really gets on your nerves, sometimes.
At a checkpoint this morning, the soldier took my passport, then barked: “Where are you from?” he asked.
“You mean where was I born? That’s different than where I am from. It’s written on my passport — New York”, I said.
[Huda reported that she was stopped at [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Japan, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“Those who you love are gone, gone. You either exist or you don’t…”
… from a translation posted by As’ad AbuKhalil on his Angry Arab blog today here of what he said was “one of Mahmud Darwish’s greatest poems, In Praise of the High Shadow”
Mahmoud Darwish was buried on Wednesday. [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The story AFP story that I quoted in my post yesterday was apparently wrong. It was not an IDF Colonel who boasted about Israel having total control of the West Bank, it was a Brigadier General. And not just any Brigadier General, at that. He is in charge of Israel’s [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It was a quiet sunny afternoon — not too hot — in East Jerusalem.
Then, a total of five large U.S. made IDF helicopters flew, rather low, over East Jerusalem, heading west.
They are, I was told, capable of carrying many weapons, and about 20 troops:
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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 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
In advance of the Arab League Summit Meeting — which is being attended by very few heads of state or government — that opened Saturday in Damascus, the UN rushed through several steps in its preparation for the formation of the tribunal to judge those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq [...]
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Filed under: Hariri Commission of Inquiry, International Tribunals, Lebanon, Syria, The Hague, UN Secretary-General
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Marian Houk
UNSG BAN Ki-Moon told countries gathered at the Donor’s conference in Paris yesterday that “I have made no secret of my concern for the 1.4 million people of Gaza who today are living under the most abhorrent conditions. With few exceptions, all manner of legitimate trade with Gaza has come to a standstill, with devastating [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN spokesperson was asked on Monday about UNSG BAN’s role in the still-planned Middle East peace conference (or “meeting”) that the U.S. is planning to convene by the end of the year in Annapolis:
“Question: Michèle, on this Middle East talk, I mean process, that Washington has called, is the Secretary-General going to be [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Aluf Benn reported in Haaretz last week that: “The United Nations cartographer Miklos Pinter is in Israel this week to move ahead on the specifics of marking the controversial boundaries of the Shaba Farms on the slopes of Mount Hermon, government sources in Jerusalem said. Pinter said a few weeks ago that [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Lebanon, Shebaa Farms, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
