From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | 14 January 2004 Anne Gwynne writes to The Guardian in response to Jonathan Spyer’s article (14/01/04) In an article entitled “Israel’s Demographic Time Bomb” by Jonathan Spyer, formerly Adviser to the Government of Ariel Sharon, The Guardian (14/01/04) ran this heading, ‘Jews risk becoming a minority in their own land’ (well, their stolen land – they have no real history here – the Golden Age of Jews lasted only, at most fifty years, under David, from 975 to 925 BC).
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Volume 25, No. 1 | January 2004 Even though we live in an age of intensive and intrusive media coverage, TV viewers in Israel were lucky to catch a glimpse of the meetings that produced the Geneva Accord. The clip we watched in November showed a group of well- known Israeli writers and peaceniks shouting at a group of not so well-known and rather cowed Palestinians, most of them officials of the Palestinian Authority.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Dissident Voice | 22 December 2003 Review of The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2003) There's no more explosive topic in American public life today than the issue of Israel, its treatment of the Palestinians and its influence on American politics. Yet the topic is one that is so hedged with anxiety, fury and fear that honest discussion is often impossible.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom & Uri Avnery's Site | 11 September 2004 Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment. One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a “crime against humanity”. It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves of a million Palestinians crowded in the tiny strip, and rob them of their scarce water.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | 11 September 2004 At 8:30am yesterday, the newsreader on Pacifica Radio's Morning Show told us of Shaul Mofaz's latest announcement that "Israel has locked down the West Bank and Gaza Strip until the Jewish holiday season ends in October…from fears of Palestinian attacks." (Direct quotation). But what will prevent Israeli attacks? And what about the (very real) fears of Palestinians?
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DR REV STEPHEN SIZER | Preteristcentral.com | 2001 Dr Rev. Stephen Sizer is a Vicar at Christ Church, Virginia Water and an area Tutor at the School of Theology, Westminster College Oxford. He holds several positions of a trustee and is renowned for his lectures on Christian Zionism. He besides having numerous articles published on the Palestinian issue also has a book published by Eagle Publishers, The Panorama of the Holy Land, a spiritual tour guide of important sites in Palestine.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brian Whitaker | The Guardian | 6 August 2004 A Jewish youth organisation has asked to be removed from the register of charities after complaints that it backed Robert Kilroy-Silk's views on Arabs. Brit Trumpeldor of Great Britain - known as Betar - was registered 20 years ago "to educate Jewish youth in good citizenship and the values of the Jewish heritage and tradition". But yesterday the Charity Commission reported that its activities "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Arab Media Network | 31 July 2004 This is a TV series about Russia . But it could have been about Israel . Or about the United States . It is entitled “The Oligarchs” and is now being screened on Israeli television. Some of its episodes are simply unbelievable – or would have been, if they had not come straight from the horses' mouths: the heroes of the story, who gleefully boast about their despicable exploits.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Guardian Leader | The Guardian | 22 July 2004 Once again Israel has vowed to flout a United Nations resolution and once again America will let it. In voting against the general assembly's resolution demanding that Israel obey a World Court ruling to dismantle the wall it is building through the West Bank, the deputy US ambassador James Cunningham said the move was missing the point.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jane Lampman | The Christian Science Monitor | 7 July 2004 Christian Zionists are growing in influence - even as they fight for policies their critics say work against peace in the Mideast. For these believers, it's all about fulfilling biblical prophecy. JERUSALEM – Ray Sanders and his wife, Sharon, grew up on farms in the American Midwest, but Israel has long been their home.