From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammed Abed | The Badger Herald | 8 September 2005 The territory of historical Palestine is home to two ethnic groups, Israelis and Palestinians. Today, this entire territory is under the full political and military control of Israel, a state that defines itself as serving the interests of only one of the ethnic groups residing within its territory rather than every person that falls under its political control, irrespective of their ethnic origin.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shahid Alam | 1 September 2005 "Captain Gordon Pim stated in his speech that it was a philanthropic principle to kill natives; there was, he said, "mercy in a massacre." Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate the Brutes (1996)
At last Mr. Elie Wiesel has spoken of the ‘dispossessed’ in Palestine. It is appropriate that he should do so; that is what the world has long come to expect of him.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sara Roy | Miftah | 20 August 2005 Israel’s disengagement plan is widely hailed by the international community, led by the United States, as a first step toward the final resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. This essay is a refutation of that view. After presenting the current situation of Gaza as the result of deliberate Israeli policies of economic integration, deinstitutionalization, and closure, the author demonstrates how provisions of the plan itself preclude the establishment of a viable economy in the Strip.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stopthewall.org | August 24th, 2005 Without a doubt, the Zionist Occupation of Palestine did not evacuate the Gaza settlers out of good will. The Occupation understood that it would never be able to defeat Palestinians in Gaza, and despite all the Israeli crimes, sieges, and massacres, that the Palestinian resistance could not be broken. Israel failed in its attempts to create internal Palestinian conflict in Gaza.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Levy | Haaretz | August 14, 2005 The struggle against incitement is the refuge of cowards, who are afraid to attack the inciters for their genuine acts of injustice. The battle by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz against turning incitement into a wholesale offense is an important fight to preserve freedom of expression in Israel. Mazuz does not deserve the flood of criticism that has followed his statement that no legal connection has been established between the incitement that preceded the murder of Yitzhak Rabin and the murder itself, and that right-wing inciters deserve condemnation, but not prosecution.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hind Khoury |International Herald Tribune | 11 August 2005 JERUSALEM After more than 38 years of its oppressive military occupation of the Gaza Strip, Israel will soon begin evacuating the few thousand settlers who have been denying freedom to more than a million Palestinians there. Israel has marketed the Gaza withdrawal as yet another historic opportunity to jump-start the peace process. But Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem indicate that Israel's unilaterally imposed disengagement was never meant to start a peace process, but rather to end one.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rafael Behr | The Observer | 17 July 2005 Likening the Israelis' treatment of Palestinians with the Holocaust is outrageous to most Jews. But Jacqueline Rose has dared to do just that in The Question of Zion, says Rafael Behr The Question of Zion Jacqueline Rose Princeton University Press £12.95, pp155 Shortly after the bombs went off in London last week, Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, issued a gagging order to stop his ministers from commenting on the event.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Haaretz Editorial | Haaretz | 16 June 2005 The housing fair that took place in the north last Sunday was aimed at attracting new residents to towns in the Galilee. But it turns out that not all Israeli citizens are welcome in these "community villages." Haaretz reporter David Ratner, who was present at the fair, received the impression that the welcoming approach of agents from the Misgav Regional Council suddenly disappears when the applicant is an Arab citizen - even if he is a doctor and department chair at Poriya Hospital, a factory owner or a journalist.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Angela Godfrey, ICAHD (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) | June 2005 MINISTRY OF STATE FOR JERUSALEM AFFAIRS PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY FACT SHEET Israel’s intention to demolish an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem is part of its on-going strategy of transferring Christians and Muslims from Jerusalem while making room for more Israeli Jewish colonies. The demolition orders, which have not been cancelled, not only violate the Fourth Geneva Convention but also (i) Phase 1 of the Road Map which requires Israel to end “actions undermining trust, including .
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sharif Hamadeh |Electronic Intifada | May 31, 2005 International support for Israel turns on the uncritical acceptance of the Jewish state as bravely fulfilling the obligations of a Western-style democracy in an otherwise hostile region. In reality, this is simply a PR-friendly re-branding of an old Herzlian notion. In The Jewish State, Theodor Herzl, the premier Zionist ideologue, envisioned that the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine would form, “part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism.