From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nathan Guttman | Haaretz | May 30, 2005 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act. A Virginia grand jury is now examining the evidence in the case, which involved receipt of classified defense information from Larry Franklin, a Pentagon official, and its transfer to the representative of a foreign country, Naor Gilon, of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jeffrey Blankfort | Middle East Labor Bulletin, Volume 4, No. 3 | Fall 1993 NEW ORLEANS—The embattled Anti-Defamation League's National Director, Abraham Foxman, is "going to war — and he's going to enlist American Jews as his foot soldiers," wrote the No. California Jewish Bulletin's Garth Wolkoff this past May, and he wasn't joking. The first battle took place in this picturesque Gulf Coast port city at the end of June and the ADL and its allies emerged victorious.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Volume 27, No. 10 | 19 May 2005 The right of the Palestinian refugees expelled in the 1948 war to return home was acknowledged by the UN General Assembly in December 1948. It is a right anchored in international law and in accordance with notions of universal justice. More surprisingly perhaps, it also makes sense in terms of realpolitik: unless Israel agrees to repatriate the refugees, all attempts to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict are bound to fail, as became clear in 2000 when the Oslo initiative broke down over this issue.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 13 May 2005 A dossier of evidence documenting alleged instances of anti-semitic behaviour at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) has been compiled and delivered to Colin Bundy, the head of the school, with a threat that legal action could follow should he not take action to implement his own anti-discrimination rules. The document has been collated by the Jewish lobbying group, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, following a meeting with the then education minister Ivan Lewis last month after six months of controversy surrounding Soas, which is part of the University of London.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jennifer Loewenstein | Occupation Magazine | April 2005 I. Introduction Shortly before midnight on July 22nd, 2002 I heard an unusually loud roar from an aircraft flying low above the skies of Gaza City. Because the sound of Israeli warplanes is commonplace in the area, I didn`t feel particularly alarmed and went to sleep as usual. I was awakened less than a half hour later by a call on my cell phone: An F-16 fighter jet had just dropped a one-ton bomb on an apartment building in one of Gaza City`s poorest and most crowded neighborhoods, about 15 minutes from where I lived.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Aluf Benn and Yuval Yoaz | Haaretz | 4 April 2005 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided Monday to extend a temporary law preventing Palestinian spouses of Israelis from becoming Israeli citizens. "There's no need to hide behind security arguments," Sharon said at a meeting in his bureau attended by the justice and interior ministers, the national security adviser and the head of the Shin Bet security service.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Glenn Kessler | Washington Post | 5 May 2005 Congress imposed the tight restrictions on aid to the Palestinians that President Bush had announced with fanfare in his State of the Union address, possibly dealing a blow to U.S. efforts to support new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. In the emergency spending bill that lawmakers completed late Tuesday, the White House had sought $200 million "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Counterpunch | 11 April 2005 "A smear is among the simplest of propaganda techniques. It can take the form of repeated, unapologetic, systematic name-calling, or otherwise implying or asserting that opponents are bad, evil, stupid, untrustworthy, guilty of reprehensible acts, or part of some undesirable category. A smear might be conducted subtly or vaguely so the target cannot seek legal action against a slander or libel, which must be specific and believable to be legally actionable.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jim Lobe | Right Web | 2 March 2005 Daniel Pipes, the founder of the Middle East Forum and an anti-Islamist activist, is working to organize a new policy institute, which will be called the Anti-Islamist Institute (AII). According to Pipes, “In the long term ... the legal activities of Islamists pose as much or even a greater set of challenges than the illegal ones.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Haaretz | 31 March 2005 After half a century of reticence and recrimination, Israel on Wednesday honored nine Egyptian Jews recruited as agents-provocateur in what became one of the worst intelligence bungles in the country's history. Israel was at war with Egypt when it hatched a plan in 1954 to ruin its rapprochement with the United States and Britain by firebombing sites frequented by foreigners in Cairo and Alexandria.