From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom & Uri Avnery's Site | 11 September 2004 Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment. One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a “crime against humanity”. It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves of a million Palestinians crowded in the tiny strip, and rob them of their scarce water.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | 11 September 2004 At 8:30am yesterday, the newsreader on Pacifica Radio's Morning Show told us of Shaul Mofaz's latest announcement that "Israel has locked down the West Bank and Gaza Strip until the Jewish holiday season ends in October…from fears of Palestinian attacks." (Direct quotation). But what will prevent Israeli attacks? And what about the (very real) fears of Palestinians?
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DR REV STEPHEN SIZER | Preteristcentral.com | 2001 Dr Rev. Stephen Sizer is a Vicar at Christ Church, Virginia Water and an area Tutor at the School of Theology, Westminster College Oxford. He holds several positions of a trustee and is renowned for his lectures on Christian Zionism. He besides having numerous articles published on the Palestinian issue also has a book published by Eagle Publishers, The Panorama of the Holy Land, a spiritual tour guide of important sites in Palestine.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brian Whitaker | The Guardian | 6 August 2004 A Jewish youth organisation has asked to be removed from the register of charities after complaints that it backed Robert Kilroy-Silk's views on Arabs. Brit Trumpeldor of Great Britain - known as Betar - was registered 20 years ago "to educate Jewish youth in good citizenship and the values of the Jewish heritage and tradition". But yesterday the Charity Commission reported that its activities "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Arab Media Network | 31 July 2004 This is a TV series about Russia . But it could have been about Israel . Or about the United States . It is entitled “The Oligarchs” and is now being screened on Israeli television. Some of its episodes are simply unbelievable – or would have been, if they had not come straight from the horses' mouths: the heroes of the story, who gleefully boast about their despicable exploits.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Guardian Leader | The Guardian | 22 July 2004 Once again Israel has vowed to flout a United Nations resolution and once again America will let it. In voting against the general assembly's resolution demanding that Israel obey a World Court ruling to dismantle the wall it is building through the West Bank, the deputy US ambassador James Cunningham said the move was missing the point.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jane Lampman | The Christian Science Monitor | 7 July 2004 Christian Zionists are growing in influence - even as they fight for policies their critics say work against peace in the Mideast. For these believers, it's all about fulfilling biblical prophecy. JERUSALEM – Ray Sanders and his wife, Sharon, grew up on farms in the American Midwest, but Israel has long been their home.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Hirst | The Guardian | 17 July 2004 Camp David failed because Israeli hardliners manipulated intelligence. In his memoirs, the former US president Bill Clinton writes that the Camp David summit, of which this month marks the fourth anniversary, was the greatest failure of his career. And that, he says, was overwhelmingly Yasser Arafat's doing - for, unlike Israeli premier Ehud Barak, who had been ready for "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oren Medicks | Redress | 7 July 2002 "The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends, the anti-Semite nations will become our allies." (The Diary of Theodor Herzl) ----------- As an Israeli peace activist, I believe that Israel's future depends on our ability to promote a just and lasting peace with our neighbours, primarily with the Palestinian people. Given the huge inequality in all aspects of the balance of power between the Israeli and Palestinian societies, only effective external intervention can prevent Israel from continuing its oppressive policies towards the Palestinians.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters | 3 July 2004 LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. general who was in charge of Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison said on Saturday she had met an Israeli interrogator in Iraq, a controversial allegation likely to irritate many in the Arab world. A U.S. military spokesman in Washington said he had no information and an Israeli official denied Israel was involved. Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, who was responsible for military police guarding all Iraqi jails at the time prisoners were abused by U.