From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nanjundiah Sadanand, Professor of Physics, Central Connecticut State University | Academics for Justice List | 29 October 2004 Yet another well funded organization has joined the crusade of the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the U.S to counter the increasing realization on the part of ordinary Americans of the brutal, indefensible realities of Israeli oppression in the occupied territories of Palestine. It is called the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and is headed by Clifford May, who wrote recently in a syndicated column for the Scripps-Howard news service titled, "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) William Rivers Pitt | Truthout.org | 15 September 2004 This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel into which the universe poured the essence of evil. It is a simple, straightforward story of a man who hates freedom and kills for the pure joy of feeling innocent blood drip from his fingers.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial |Financial Times | 8 October 2004 So now we know for certain. Ariel Sharon's plan to "disengage" from the Gaza Strip is a gambit to freeze the Middle East peace process indefinitely, hang on to nearly all the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, deny the Palestinians a state, and set aside forever the future of 4m Palestinian refugees, the status of occupied Arab east Jerusalem and where Israel's final borders are to be drawn.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | 6 October 2004 Twenty days ago I described the Nablus experience of Jewish Holy Days, and forecast what I thought the hermetic sealing of Palestine, announced by Shaul Mofaz on 10th September and said to be for Israel’s security, would mean for Palestine (Too Much to Atone for on Yom Kippur -http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/708/re2.htm) Now, judge for yourself – here is a summary of 30 pages of headlines and 2,000 detailed accounts of the thousands of actions of the Israelis, each one of which is adjudged a War Crime under International Law and Custom.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oded Yinon, translated by Israel Shahak | KIVUNIM / Palestine with Provenance | February 1982 Commentary: This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14--Winter, 5742, February 1982, Editor: Yoram Beck. Editorial Committee: Eli Eyal, Yoram Beck, Amnon Hadari, Yohanan Manor, Elieser Schweid. Published by the Department of Publicity/The World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem. This essay was translated into English by Israel Shahak, an anti-Zionist Israel Jew, and disseminated on 13 June 1982 -- a week after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on 6 June 1982, but several months before the massacre at Sabra and Shatila.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush-Shalom.org | 18 September 2004 The Security Service is haunted by a terrible fear: that another Israeli Prime Minister will be assassinated. The extreme right-wing, which does not hide its admiration for Yigal Amir and his deed, harbors some who dream of a similar action. After all, if Amir succeeded in murdering the Oslo process, why shouldn’t another Amir succeed in murdering the process of dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip?
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JON ELMER interviews URI DAVIS | 17 September 2004 Jon Elmer: Your autobiography subtitle describes you as an "anti-Zionist Palestinian Jew." By way of introduction, can you explain that designation? Uri Davis: Well, that particular designation is informed by a commitment to a rather conventional principle: the separation of religion from the state. I very much adhere to this principle, which I think is a hugely important contribution of the American and French revolutions, and a great advance toward humanism worldwide.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Weir | If Americans Knew | 15 September 2004 The most monumental cover-up in media history may be the one I’m about to describe. In my entire experience with American journalism, I have never found anything as extreme, sustained, and omnipresent. Three and a half years ago, when the current Palestinian uprising began, I started to look into Israel and Palestine. I had never paid much attention to this issue before and so – unlike many people – I knew I was completely uninformed about it.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ran HaCohen | Antiwar.com | 15 June 2005 What is the first picture the term "occupation" raises in our mind? Probably some kind of extreme violence among civilians: lethal fire in the middle of town, terrified kids in pajamas watching heavily armed soldiers searching a house, a helicopter firing a missile in the midst of Gaza. All these violent scenes do happen, but they do not give an adequate picture of what the occupation really looks like.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dominic Casciani | BBC News | 29 December 2005 Britain's top Jewish body has apologised for branding a Muslim charity a "terrorist organisation". In an out-of-court settlement, the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it should not have described Interpal in these terms. London-based Interpal, which raises millions for Palestinian causes, had launched a libel action against the Board, due in the High Court next year.