The prince's accomplice

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ramzy Baroud | Al-Ahram Weekly, Issue No. 759 | 8-14 September 2005 In the halls of infamy, Machiavelli and Sharon walk hand in hand, writes Ramzy Baroud* Many lessons can be extracted from observing Israeli dominion over the Palestinians in the past 55 years, most notably the audacious mandate of institutionalised violence. Even more

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Disengagement and the Politics of Post-National Realism

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammad Abed | Znet Magazine | 17 August 2005 I The Meaning of Disengagement Maintaining or intensifying oppressive policies requires the manufacture of a diversion, a ‘smokescreen’ that buys time and accumulates political capital. One reliable way of accumulating political capital is to make changes that incur minimal political and human costs while creating

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On Being Good Victims

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shahid Alam | 1 September 2005 “Captain Gordon Pim stated in his speech that it was a philanthropic principle to kill natives; there was, he said, “mercy in a massacre.” Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate the Brutes (1996) At last Mr. Elie Wiesel has spoken of the ‘dispossessed’ in Palestine. It is appropriate that he should

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Praying with Their Eyes Closed: Reflections on the Disengagement from Gaza

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sara Roy | Miftah | 20 August 2005 Israel’s disengagement plan is widely hailed by the international community, led by the United States, as a first step toward the final resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. This essay is a refutation of that view. After presenting the

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"Disengaging" from ghettos and walls: Challenges to the Palestinian liberation struggle under the myth of victory

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stopthewall.org | August 24th, 2005 Without a doubt, the Zionist Occupation of Palestine did not evacuate the Gaza settlers out of good will. The Occupation understood that it would never be able to defeat Palestinians in Gaza, and despite all the Israeli crimes, sieges, and massacres, that the Palestinian resistance could not be broken.

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In Praise of Incitement

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Levy | Haaretz | August 14, 2005 The struggle against incitement is the refuge of cowards, who are afraid to attack the inciters for their genuine acts of injustice. The battle by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz against turning incitement into a wholesale offense is an important fight to preserve freedom of expression in

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Meanwhile, Israel grabs the rest of Jerusalem

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hind Khoury | International Herald Tribune | 11 August 2005 JERUSALEM After more than 38 years of its oppressive military occupation of the Gaza Strip, Israel will soon begin evacuating the few thousand settlers who have been denying freedom to more than a million Palestinians there. Israel has marketed the Gaza withdrawal as yet

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Compare and contrast: Review of The Question of Zion

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rafael Behr | The Observer | 17 July 2005 Likening the Israelis’ treatment of Palestinians with the Holocaust is outrageous to most Jews. But Jacqueline Rose has dared to do just that in The Question of Zion, says Rafael Behr The Question of Zion Jacqueline Rose Princeton University Press £12.95, pp155 Shortly after the

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