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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Azmi Beshara | Al-Ahram Weekly | 8-14 January 2004 Land is at the heart of the drama unfolding in Palestine. But it is not the only thing, argues Azmi Beshara Rhetoric about demography so dominates Israel’s political discourse that one might be tempted to assume that Israel has abandoned its preferred designation as the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brian Klug | The Nation | February 2, 2004 In 1879 the German journalist Wilhelm Marr, a former socialist and anarchist, founded an organization that was novel in two ways. It was the first political party based on a platform of hostility to Jews. And it introduced the world to a new word: “anti-Semite.”

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | 14 January 2004 Anne Gwynne writes to The Guardian in response to Jonathan Spyer’s article (14/01/04) In an article entitled “Israel’s Demographic Time Bomb” by Jonathan Spyer, formerly Adviser to the Government of Ariel Sharon, The Guardian (14/01/04) ran this heading, ‘Jews risk becoming a minority in their own land’ (well,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Volume 25, No. 1 | January 2004 Even though we live in an age of intensive and intrusive media coverage, TV viewers in Israel were lucky to catch a glimpse of the meetings that produced the Geneva Accord. The clip we watched in November showed a group

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Dissident Voice | 22 December 2003 Review of The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2003) There’s no more explosive topic in American public life today than the issue of Israel, its treatment of the Palestinians and its influence on American politics. Yet

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

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

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

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

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