Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DPA | Ha’aretz Daily | 1 April 2004 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Thursday it stopped distributing emergency food aid to some 600,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA said in a statement that the suspension followed restrictions introduced by Israel on the sole commercial crossing into

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lev Grinberg, Political Sociologist, Ben Gurion University | La Libre | April 2004 (Translated from the original French) The murder of Sheik Ahmad Yassin by the government of Israel is part of a major move carried out by the government of Israel, which can be described as symbolic genocide. Unable to recover from the Holocaust

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | Logos Journal | March 2004 In the last two years I have made three trips to Israel and Occupied Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza Strip). Each trip represents a journey into an approximation of the literary nightmares of George Orwell and Franz Kafka. To a certain extent we are all subject

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonathan Cook | Al-Ahram Weekly | 4-10 March 2004 Discrimination against Israel’s Palestinian citizens has been expanding to include a total ban of the use of Arabic language by workers, reports Jonathan Cook A photograph of Abeer Zinaty shows the 20- year-old student from the mixed Arab and Jewish city of Ramle in central

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yair Ettinger | Ha’aretz Daily | 24 February 2004 Deputy Defense Minister Ze’ev Boim, addressing the issue of why much of local, regional and world terrorism is directed by extremist Muslims, asked Tuesday, “What is it about Islam as a whole and the Palestinians in particular? Is it some form of cultural deprivation? Is

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin Qumsiyeh | Counterpunch | 8 March 2004 As I write this, Israeli occupation forces have just finished killing 14 and injuring 80 Palestinians in a five hour “sweep” in Gaza. Four of those killed and 26 of those injured were children (ages 10-16). In one week, Israeli occupation forces thus murdered 59 Palestinians

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ghada Karmi | The Guardian | 18 March 2004 Israel’s deputy defence minister, Ze’ev Boim, recently wondered whether there was a genetic defect that made Arabs terrorists. “What is it with Islam in general and the Palestinians in particular?” he asked on Israel army radio. “Is it some sort of cultural deficiency? Is it

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Pilger | Zmag/New Statesman | 19 March 2004 The current threat of attacks in countries whose governments have close alliances with Washington is the latest stage in a long struggle against the empires of the west, their rapacious crusades and domination. The motivation of those who plant bombs in railway carriages derives directly

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gilad Atzmon | Information Clearing House | 22 March 2004 Israel Air Force helicopters fired missiles at the car carrying the wheelchair-bound head of the Islamic group as he left a mosque near his house in Gaza City. It also appears Ariel Sharon was in direct command of the assassination operation, not entirely surprising

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer | San Francisco Chronicle | 23 February 2002 San Francisco — A lawsuit accusing the Anti-Defamation League of spying on local activists — the last court action stemming from San Francisco police raids on the Jewish organization’s office 10 years ago — has been settled for $178,000, lawyers said