Month: January 2016

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mustafa Barghouthi | Baltimore Sun | 13 December 2007 As one who for decades has supported a two-state solution and the nonviolent struggle for Palestinian rights, I view the recent conference in Annapolis with a great deal of skepticism – and a glimmer of hope. Seven years with no negotiations – and increasing numbers

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nadim Rouhana | The Nation | 11 December 2007 The Annapolis peace talks regard me as an interloper in my own land. Israel’s deputy prime minister, Avigdor Lieberman, argues that I should “take [my] bundles and get lost.” Henry Kissinger thinks I ought to be summarily swapped from inside Israel to the would-be Palestinian

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DINA KRAFT | New York Times | 11 October 2006 ANATA, West Bank, Oct. 9 — Sawsan Salameh, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was thrilled to get a full scholarship from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to begin a doctorate in theoretical chemistry. But a recent move by the Israeli Army to ban

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) IMEMC & Agencies | International Middle East Media Center | 20 September 2006 Following on a statement by an Israeli commander that the Israeli army fired at least 1.2 million cluster bomblets on Lebanon during the war, the majority of which were fired when hostilities were largely over, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator verified

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) STEVEN ERLANGER | NY Times | September 4, 2006 JERUSALEM, Sept. 4 – Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert authorized construction bids today for another 690 homes in the occupied West Bank in the face of pro forma American criticism. The houses will be built in Maale Adumim and Betar Illit, two settlements near Jerusalem

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Azmi Bishara | Al-Ahram Weekly | 10-16 August 2006   Journalist: How will the deaths of Israeli soldiers today affect your plans? Israeli Army Spokesman: You saw that massacre of 12 Israelis .. it will … Journalist: Massacre you said? But those were soldiers and this is war. Spokesman: No, it was a massacre

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ran HaCohen | Antiwar.com | 31 July 2006 Nothing compares to Israel’s open, independent, and pluralistic media in times of war. Saturday we had the pleasure of watching Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman give an especially repulsive horror show on Israeli public television (Channel 1). Foxman was invited to the studio to comment

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuven Abarjel and Smadar Lavie | Jordan Times | 27 July 2006 On Jan. 25, 2006, Hamas won a landslide victory in the democratic Palestinian legislative elections. The elections were conducted under tight US supervision. Immediately thereafter, Israel’s general attorney, Menny Mazouz, started exploring the legal procedures to jail the movement’s leadership. Soon after

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | The Independent | 17 July 2006 Hugh was so right, tragically so. Hugh Blaschko was one of the greatest men that ever lived. He and his wife Mary gave me shelter, became my surrogate family from 1972 to 1978 when I had to cope with the loss of my old homeland,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonathan Cook | The Electronic Intifada | 12 July 2006 The same malign intent by Israel towards the Palestinians is stamped through its history like the lettering in a childrens stick of seaside rock. But despite the consistent aim of Israeli policy, generation after generation of Western politicians, diplomats and journalists has shown a