Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah.
As Rice pushes for progress in Israeli-Palestinian talks, UN Rights Expert denounces the Quartet (click at title of entry)
Marian Houk is a journalist with long experience in the United Nations and in the Middle East, currently based in Jerusalem.
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Marian Houk
October 15, 2007
The UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, John Dugard, has said today that the UN Secretary General should pull out of the Quartet that the U.S. has put together to support President Bush’s moves for Middle East peace -- unless the Quartet begins to pay due regard to the deteriorating human rights situation in the Palestinian territory....
Marian Houk
October 15, 2007
The UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, John Dugard, has said today that the UN Secretary General should pull out of the Quartet that the U.S. has put together to support President Bush’s moves for Middle East peace -- unless the Quartet begins to pay due regard to the deteriorating human rights situation in the Palestinian territory....
At lease Olmert finished negotiations with Lebanon. Lebanon is stating they have discovered a plot against the UN Peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon. What was it I said. "The Middle East has to solve it's own problems." There is no other way. The diplomatic corp of the USA has no money, no military and means to bring brevity to any negotiations.
Report: Swap gives Israel papers written by Arad (click here)
By Amos Harel, Barak Ravid and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents
Hezbollah gave Israel documents written in Ron Arad's handwriting on Monday, during the first swap conducted since the Second Lebanon War, the Lebanese daily Al-Akbar on Tuesday. Israel said the swap was part of a larger negotiation process on the release of two of its soldiers abducted by the guerilla group in July 2006. The paper did not specify when the documents were written, but reported that they apparently dated to when the abducted Israel Air Force navigator was held in Lebanon. Arad went missing when his fighter jet went down over Lebanon in 1986....
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 news roundup for October 15, 2007.
In this edition: Israel and Hezbollah carry out a first swap since the Prime Minister Olmert avoids commenting on the three probes against him.
The jailed killer of Yitzhak Rabin requests a leave to attend his unborn son's circumcision.
Swap at naqoura raises hopes that larger deals could be forthcomingBy Rym Ghazal and Mohammed Zaatari Daily Star staff
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
BEIRUT/NAQOURA: Israel and Hizbullah exchanged the remains of an Israeli civilian
for a captive Lebanese fighter and the bodies of two of his comrades on Monday during a swap conducted under tight security at the Naqoura border crossing point. The bodies of two Hizbullah fighters, Ali Wezwaz, from Mais al-Jabal and Mohammad Dimashqiyeh from Aita al-Jabal, along with Lebanese fighter Hassan Naim Akil, were exchanged on Monday in return for the body of Israeli citizen Gabriel Dwait, an Ethiopian Jewish immigrant who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on January 20, 2005....
for a captive Lebanese fighter and the bodies of two of his comrades on Monday during a swap conducted under tight security at the Naqoura border crossing point. The bodies of two Hizbullah fighters, Ali Wezwaz, from Mais al-Jabal and Mohammad Dimashqiyeh from Aita al-Jabal, along with Lebanese fighter Hassan Naim Akil, were exchanged on Monday in return for the body of Israeli citizen Gabriel Dwait, an Ethiopian Jewish immigrant who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on January 20, 2005....
