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.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) The Canadian Islamic Congress | Press Release | 8 November 2004 ISLAMIC CONGRESS SAYS MEDIA AND TWO JEWISH GROUPS OWE APOLOGY TO ORGANIZATION, ITS PRESIDENT, CANADIAN MUSLIMS, AND THE CANADIAN PUBLIC The Canadian Islamic Congress today said that the Canadian media and two Canadian Jewish groups owe CIC, its president, Muslims, and the Canadian public an apology. Following the controversial airing of the Michael Coren Show on October 19, Canadian news media launched a relentless and unfair attack against the Canadian Islamic Congress and its president -- and are still doing so -- while covering up for weeks the outrageous statements made on the same show by Adam Aptowitzer, then the Ontario chairman of the B'nai Brith Institute of International Affairs.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Halpin | Information Clearing House | 2 November 2004 The sea was warm. A kingfisher perched momentarily atop a rusting reinforcing rod with a tiny fish in its bill. Its iridescent beauty was a glistening tear drop on the face of this weeping land. Strings of boats were streaming out of the harbour with the powerful mother ship towing the tiddlers astern. The Prophet in action.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) B. Michael (translated by The Other Israel-staff from Hebrew) | Yediot Aharonot | 15 October 2004 Between Sept 29 and Oct 15, fifteen days in all, I killed thirty children. Two children per day. Two dead children per day is more or less four bereaved parents per day. Why more or less? Because some of them were brothers. So, two dead children for one pair of bereaved parents.