Month: January 2016

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul Campos | Rocky Mountain News | 4 January 2005 Daniel Pipes, the well-known neoconservative intellectual and director of the Middle East Forum, has just published an opinion piece in which he implies that the wholesale relocation of American citizens of the Muslim faith to internment camps might be a good idea. Pipes doesn’t

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | December 2004 Uri Avnery deconstructs Sharon’s recent speech to Israeli financial, political and academic leaders in which he painted a rosy picture of Israel’s prospects. But “the most important part of the speech was the part that was not there. There was no peace offer to the Palestinians. He did not

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Counterpunch | 9 December 2004 Ariel Sharon is surrounded by a coterie of “advisors” who step in to develop, perfect and sell plans for the continued and inexorable dispossession of the Palestinians. What is surprising is that these advisors, the intellectual progenitors of continuing mass crimes, are an outspoken bunch;

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liat Weingart | Znet | 29 November 2004 I’m in the living room of a family friend. The subject changes from yoga to Israel-Palestine, and I tell her that I think Americans need to change their foreign policy towards Israel. She says, “in what way, so that the Arabs will throw the Jews into

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem | The Observer | 5 December 2004 The message has been consistent: Israel believes the US-backed road-map is the way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It has been repeated by Ariel Sharon and by ministers, yet now government papers suggest that Israel intends to bypass the peace plan, creating a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Neve Gordon | In These Times | 12 November 2004 Will Israel take steps to address Palestinian grievances or continue myth-making? The leader and symbol of the Palestinian people is dead. His departure from the political scene has far-reaching implications, particularly for Israeli-Palestinian relations. The official Israeli line for the past four years has

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | November 10 “Real armies attack armies, but the mighty Israeli army is ganging up on refugee camps and murdering women and children…It is not a heroic act to use state-of-the-art machines of death against impoverished civilians who even have a hard time securing food for their kids.”

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Tanya Reinhart – Talk at the Euro-Palestine Concert, Paris | 6 November 2004 We gather here at difficult times, when it seems that the Palestinian cause has been almost eliminated from the international agenda. The Western world is hailing the new “peace vision” of Sharon’s disengagement plan. The day this plan

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gilad Atzmon | Gilad.co.uk | 13/11/2004 In the last ten days of his life the world held its breath following what appeared to be an everlasting battle between a giant freedom fighter and the angel of death. Many of us were following the news with care, many of us were praying for the president’s

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush-Shalom.org | 13 November 2004 “Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him.” This biblical injunction (Proverbs 24:17) is one of the most profound Jewish moral tenets. In this connection, Israel is very far