From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Lichfield in Paris | Independent | 17 July 2003 Extreme-right and neo-Nazi groups in France have formed an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim alliance on the internet with extremist Jewish groups, a report published yesterday said. Since the French far right is known for its visceral anti-Semitism, the alliance has puzzled and disturbed anti-racism campaigners and mainstream Jewish organisations. A series of linked websites, calling for violent "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris Bunting | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 4 July 2003 In an incendiary polemic, Baruch Kimmerling attacks the violent policies of Ariel Sharon and argues that failure to see that Israeli and Palestinian fates are intertwined could reduce the Jewish state to a footnote in history. Chris Bunting reports To his enemies, Baruch Kimmerling is a traitor: a Jew who has betrayed his Jewishness.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada | 26 June 2003 A law forbidding Israeli citizenship for Palestinians from the Occupied Territories who marry Israelis passed its first reading in the Knesset on June 18. This is another milestone on Israel's road to open, institutionalized apartheid. According to Ha'aretz, the bill forbids the granting of Israeli citizenship in cases of reunification between families split between Israel and the Occupied Territories and will strictly limit the ability of Palestinians to obtain Israeli residence or to legally remain within the country.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Justin Raimondo | antiwar.com | 23 June 2003 Last week, after Israel targeted Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi – and, instead, got a woman passer-by and a three year-old child, while 27 others were injured. – George W. Bush came out with some very mild criticism of Israel: "I am troubled by the recent Israeli helicopter gunship attacks. I regret the loss of innocent life.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ran Ha’Cohen | Dissident Voice | 19 June 2003 Commenting on the Aqaba Summit, in an atmosphere of peace and reconciliation, a senior member of Israel's ruling junta said it all. Major General Amos Gilad – the Government Coordinator in the [Occupied] Territories – told Yedioth Achronoth (5.6.03): "In Mid-Eastern terms, we have not inflicted any suffering on the Palestinians". Yes: Merely 2.500 Palestinians killed in two and a half years, only tens of thousands injured, just 12.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Vik Iyer | The Independent | 20 June 2003 Suspended Labour MP George Galloway today attacked a newspaper which has apologised for claiming the anti–war campaigner had taken millions of pounds from Saddam Hussein. Mr Galloway insisted that he always knew the allegations were based on "malice, fabrication and forgery" and would "soon fall apart". The Christian Science Monitor previously reported on its website that Mr Galloway had been given millions of dollars by the deposed Baghdad regime to promote interests in the west.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nick Pretzlik | (Circular) | April 2004 The world is too terrible a place to live in, not because of the bad things that happen, but because of the good people who stand by and do nothing. Albert Einstein Until recently it was a mystery to me how in the 1930s on of the most evil regimes in history could usurp power in a country that at the time represented the pinnacle of culture in terms of the arts and sciences, and was thought to be a model of democracy.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DPA | Ha'aretz Daily | 1 April 2004 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Thursday it stopped distributing emergency food aid to some 600,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA said in a statement that the suspension followed restrictions introduced by Israel on the sole commercial crossing into Gaza through which it is able to bring in humanitarian assistance.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lev Grinberg, Political Sociologist, Ben Gurion University | La Libre | April 2004 (Translated from the original French) The murder of Sheik Ahmad Yassin by the government of Israel is part of a major move carried out by the government of Israel, which can be described as symbolic genocide. Unable to recover from the Holocaust trauma and the insecurity it caused, the Jewish people, the ultimate victim of genocide, is currently inflicting a symbolic genocide upon the Palestinian people.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | Logos Journal | March 2004 In the last two years I have made three trips to Israel and Occupied Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza Strip). Each trip represents a journey into an approximation of the literary nightmares of George Orwell and Franz Kafka. To a certain extent we are all subject to the Orwellian version of these nightmares. It was Orwell’s conviction that “political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectful.