From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ran HaCohen | Antiwar.com | 31 July 2006 Nothing compares to Israel's open, independent, and pluralistic media in times of war. Saturday we had the pleasure of watching Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman give an especially repulsive horror show on Israeli public television (Channel 1). Foxman was invited to the studio to comment on Kofi Annan's announcement that four UN observers had been apparently killed by Israel deliberately.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuven Abarjel and Smadar Lavie | Jordan Times | 27 July 2006 On Jan. 25, 2006, Hamas won a landslide victory in the democratic Palestinian legislative elections. The elections were conducted under tight US supervision. Immediately thereafter, Israel’s general attorney, Menny Mazouz, started exploring the legal procedures to jail the movement’s leadership. Soon after that, the Israeli army started executing the Gazan leadership of the movement by air strikes.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | The Independent | 17 July 2006 Hugh was so right, tragically so. Hugh Blaschko was one of the greatest men that ever lived. He and his wife Mary gave me shelter, became my surrogate family from 1972 to 1978 when I had to cope with the loss of my old homeland, Uganda. Born in Germany, Hugh was from one of those cultured, intellectual Jewish Berlin families crushed by Nazism.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonathan Cook | The Electronic Intifada | 12 July 2006 The same malign intent by Israel towards the Palestinians is stamped through its history like the lettering in a childrens stick of seaside rock. But despite the consistent aim of Israeli policy, generation after generation of Western politicians, diplomats and journalists has shown a repeated inability to grasp what is happening before its very eyes.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | Electronic Intifada | 14 July 2006 Imagine a group of high ranking generals who simulated for years Third World War scenarios in which they can move huge armies around, employ the most sophisticated weapons in their disposal and enjoy the immunity of a computerized headquarters from which they can direct their war games. Now imagine that they are informed that in fact there is no Third World War and their expertise is needed to calm down some of the nearby slums or deal with soaring crime in deprived townships and impoverished neighborhoods.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubmann and Benjamin Joffe-Walt | The Guardian | 20 June 2006 Following a heart attack earlier this year, Paul Mackney, then general secretary of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (Natfhe), was lying in hospital last month flipping through emails on his Blackberry. A proposal calling on the lecturers' union to encourage an academic boycott of Israel had just been made public, and flooding his inbox were messages accusing him, among many things, of being a "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Weir | Counterpunch | 18/19 March 2006 "The trend toward secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy." - Associated Press CEO, in a speech about the importance of openness. "The official response is we decline to respond." - Associated Press Director of Media Relations, replying to questions about AP. In the midst of journalism's "Sunshine Week"--during which the Associated Press and other news organizations are valiantly proclaiming the public's "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt | London Review of Books Vol. 28 | 23 March 2006 For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Saree Makdisi | Los Angeles Times | March 10, 2006 RICHARD ROGERS, the noted British architect, was recently summoned to the offices of the Empire State Development Corp. to explain his connection to a group called Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine. Empire State is overseeing the redesign of New York's $1.7-billion Javits Convention Center, and Rogers is the architect on the job.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Council of Arab Americans | 4 January 2005 In a widely used college textbook published by McGraw-Hill, an article titled "The Great War on Militant Islam" includes racist references to Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians. See an excerpt below. "Christianity and Judaism in particular - regard themselves, like Islam regards itself, as a final, divinely revealed truth. Yes, they too proselytize, and they have their occasional religiously motivated murderers.