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.
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.