From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Hirst | The Guardian | 17 July 2004 Camp David failed because Israeli hardliners manipulated intelligence. In his memoirs, the former US president Bill Clinton writes that the Camp David summit, of which this month marks the fourth anniversary, was the greatest failure of his career. And that, he says, was overwhelmingly Yasser Arafat's doing - for, unlike Israeli premier Ehud Barak, who had been ready for "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oren Medicks | Redress | 7 July 2002 "The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends, the anti-Semite nations will become our allies." (The Diary of Theodor Herzl) ----------- As an Israeli peace activist, I believe that Israel's future depends on our ability to promote a just and lasting peace with our neighbours, primarily with the Palestinian people. Given the huge inequality in all aspects of the balance of power between the Israeli and Palestinian societies, only effective external intervention can prevent Israel from continuing its oppressive policies towards the Palestinians.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters | 3 July 2004 LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. general who was in charge of Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison said on Saturday she had met an Israeli interrogator in Iraq, a controversial allegation likely to irritate many in the Arab world. A U.S. military spokesman in Washington said he had no information and an Israeli official denied Israel was involved. Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, who was responsible for military police guarding all Iraqi jails at the time prisoners were abused by U.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Seymour Hersh | The New Yorker | 20 June 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS: Perri Dorset, Director, Public Relations (212) 286-5898 Daniel Kile, Publicist (212) 286-5996 http://www.newyorker.com/press/content/ Current and former intelligence officials in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe confirm that "Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan," in Iraq, "providing training for commando units,"
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Letter to Editor | The New York Times | 2 December 1948 TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: LETTER SIGNED BY: ISIDORE ABRAMOWITZ, HANNAH ARENDT, ABRAHAM BRICK, RABBI JESSURUN CARDOZO, ALBERT EINSTEIN, HERMAN EISEN, M.D., HAYIM FINEMAN, M. GALLEN, M.D., H.H. HARRIS, ZELIG S. HARRIS, SIDNEY HOOK, FRED KARUSH, BRURIA KAUFMAN, IRMA L. LINDHEIM, NACHMAN MAJSEL, SEYMOUR MELMAN, MYER D. MENDELSON, M.D., HARRY M.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Baruch Kimmerling | Le Monde Diplomatique | June 2004 The current Israeli policy of ‘politicide’ goes back to the 1948 war: it describes the process intended eventually to dissolve the Palestinian people as a social, political and economic identity. Baruch Kimmerling ARIEL Sharon’s political troubles began some years ago when a grassroots movement inside Israel demanded that a "wall of separation" be built around major urban centres.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yitzhak Laor | London Review of Books, Volume 26, No. 11 | 3 June 2004 On Sunday 16 May, a day before the IDF launched its long-awaited, well-planned attack on the civilian population of Rafah, the Israeli chief of staff, Major-General Moshe (Boogey) Ya'alon said it was 'almost the last chance' for such an operation and that 'special conditions were in place' for an imminent attack.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | May 2004 I) What is Apartheid? Apartheid is originally an Afrikaans word and this denotes the origin of the concept in the political system created by white (mainly Dutch and later English) South Africans. The word literally means “aparthood.” In the West it has come to denote a “legally sanctioned system of racial segregation.” However, because legal systems can be manipulated or ignored, we should look beyond the legal aspect of any apartheid system.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart, Translated from Hebrew by Netta Van Vliet | Yediot Aharonot | 20 April 2004 Biddu is a beautiful Palestinian village, surrounded with vines and fruit orchards, a few miles to the east of the Israeli border of 1967. In the last couple of months, the village, that has lived in peace with its Israeli neighbors even during the present Intifada, has become yet another symbol in the history of Israel/Palestine.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Vol. 26, No. 9 | 6 May 2004 Ilan Pappe warns that Israel is heading for disaster The day after the assassination in Gaza of the Hamas leader, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, Yuval Steinitz was interviewed on Israeli radio. Steinitz is the Likud chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee in the Knesset. Before that he taught Western philosophy at the University of Haifa, where his epistemological world-view was shaped by romantic nationalists such as Gobineau and Fichte, who stressed purity of race as a precondition for national excellence.