From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul Campos | Rocky Mountain News | 4 January 2005 Daniel Pipes, the well-known neoconservative intellectual and director of the Middle East Forum, has just published an opinion piece in which he implies that the wholesale relocation of American citizens of the Muslim faith to internment camps might be a good idea. Pipes doesn't actually come right out and support internment camps for American Muslims, but his article (published originally in The New York Sun and reprinted in various other papers) casts a nostalgic glance back at the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and hints that we ought to consider similar steps in the context of the war on terrorism.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | December 2004 Uri Avnery deconstructs Sharon's recent speech to Israeli financial, political and academic leaders in which he painted a rosy picture of Israel's prospects. But "the most important part of the speech was the part that was not there. There was no peace offer to the Palestinians. He did not talk about peace at all." Ariel Sharon's speech at the Herzliya Conference, an annual gathering of Israel's financial, political and academic aristocracy, proved again his wondrous ability to conjure up an imaginary world and divert attention away from the real one.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Counterpunch | 9 December 2004 Ariel Sharon is surrounded by a coterie of "advisors" who step in to develop, perfect and sell plans for the continued and inexorable dispossession of the Palestinians. What is surprising is that these advisors, the intellectual progenitors of continuing mass crimes, are an outspoken bunch; they don't shy away from revealing their latest fiendish plans or their true intent.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liat Weingart | Znet | 29 November 2004 I'm in the living room of a family friend. The subject changes from yoga to Israel-Palestine, and I tell her that I think Americans need to change their foreign policy towards Israel. She says, "in what way, so that the Arabs will throw the Jews into the sea?" It takes four minutes of back and forth for the conversation to degenerate.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem | The Observer | 5 December 2004 The message has been consistent: Israel believes the US-backed road-map is the way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It has been repeated by Ariel Sharon and by ministers, yet now government papers suggest that Israel intends to bypass the peace plan, creating a Palestinian state of enclaves, surrounded by walls and linked by tunnels and special roads.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Neve Gordon | In These Times | 12 November 2004 Will Israel take steps to address Palestinian grievances or continue myth-making? The leader and symbol of the Palestinian people is dead. His departure from the political scene has far-reaching implications, particularly for Israeli-Palestinian relations. The official Israeli line for the past four years has been that there is no Palestinian partner and that Yasser Arafat is persona non grata.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | November 10 "Real armies attack armies, but the mighty Israeli army is ganging up on refugee camps and murdering women and children…It is not a heroic act to use state-of-the-art machines of death against impoverished civilians who even have a hard time securing food for their kids." - Husni Zurub, Mayor of Khan Younis 25th October 2004
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Tanya Reinhart - Talk at the Euro-Palestine Concert, Paris | 6 November 2004 We gather here at difficult times, when it seems that the Palestinian cause has been almost eliminated from the international agenda. The Western world is hailing the new "peace vision" of Sharon's disengagement plan. The day this plan passed in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week was hailed by Le Monde as a historical day.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gilad Atzmon | Gilad.co.uk | 13/11/2004 In the last ten days of his life the world held its breath following what appeared to be an everlasting battle between a giant freedom fighter and the angel of death. Many of us were following the news with care, many of us were praying for the president's recovery. Apparently, not all of us: we also had a chance to see some necrophiliac Israeli ministers who would not let go, for them this was an opportunity to entertain themselves with fatality, an opportunity not to be missed.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush-Shalom.org | 13 November 2004 "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him." This biblical injunction (Proverbs 24:17) is one of the most profound Jewish moral tenets. In this connection, Israel is very far from being a "Jewish State", as it likes to define itself.