Author: Henry Jones

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

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | Electronic Intifada | 14 July 2006 Imagine a group of high ranking generals who simulated for years Third World War scenarios in which they can move huge armies around, employ the most sophisticated weapons in their disposal and enjoy the immunity of a computerized headquarters from which they can direct their

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubmann and Benjamin Joffe-Walt | The Guardian | 20 June 2006 Following a heart attack earlier this year, Paul Mackney, then general secretary of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (Natfhe), was lying in hospital last month flipping through emails on his Blackberry. A proposal calling on the lecturers’

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Weir | Counterpunch | 18/19 March 2006 “The trend toward secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy.” – Associated Press CEO, in a speech about the importance of openness. “The official response is we decline to respond.” – Associated Press Director of Media Relations, replying to questions about AP. In the midst of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt | London Review of Books Vol. 28 | 23 March 2006 For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to