Mona Baker

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

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Guardian Leader | The Guardian | 22 July 2004 Once again Israel has vowed to flout a United Nations resolution and once again America will let it. In voting against the general assembly’s resolution demanding that Israel obey a World Court ruling to dismantle the wall it is building through the West Bank, the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jane Lampman | The Christian Science Monitor | 7 July 2004 Christian Zionists are growing in influence – even as they fight for policies their critics say work against peace in the Mideast. For these believers, it’s all about fulfilling biblical prophecy. JERUSALEM – Ray Sanders and his wife, Sharon, grew up on farms

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Hirst | The Guardian | 17 July 2004 Camp David failed because Israeli hardliners manipulated intelligence. In his memoirs, the former US president Bill Clinton writes that the Camp David summit, of which this month marks the fourth anniversary, was the greatest failure of his career. And that, he says, was overwhelmingly Yasser

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oren Medicks | Redress | 7 July 2002 “The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends, the anti-Semite nations will become our allies.” (The Diary of Theodor Herzl) ———– As an Israeli peace activist, I believe that Israel’s future depends on our ability to promote a just and lasting peace with our neighbours, primarily

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters | 3 July 2004 LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. general who was in charge of Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison said on Saturday she had met an Israeli interrogator in Iraq, a controversial allegation likely to irritate many in the Arab world. A U.S. military spokesman in Washington said he had no information

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Seymour Hersh | The New Yorker | 20 June 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS: Perri Dorset, Director, Public Relations (212) 286-5898 Daniel Kile, Publicist (212) 286-5996 http://www.newyorker.com/press/content/ Current and former intelligence officials in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe confirm that “Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Letter to Editor | The New York Times | 2 December 1948 TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: LETTER SIGNED BY: ISIDORE ABRAMOWITZ, HANNAH ARENDT, ABRAHAM BRICK, RABBI JESSURUN CARDOZO, ALBERT EINSTEIN, HERMAN EISEN, M.D., HAYIM FINEMAN, M. GALLEN, M.D., H.H. HARRIS, ZELIG S. HARRIS, SIDNEY HOOK, FRED KARUSH, BRURIA KAUFMAN, IRMA

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Baruch Kimmerling | Le Monde Diplomatique | June 2004 The current Israeli policy of ‘politicide’ goes back to the 1948 war: it describes the process intended eventually to dissolve the Palestinian people as a social, political and economic identity. Baruch Kimmerling ARIEL Sharon’s political troubles began some years ago when a grassroots movement inside

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yitzhak Laor | London Review of Books, Volume 26, No. 11 | 3 June 2004 On Sunday 16 May, a day before the IDF launched its long-awaited, well-planned attack on the civilian population of Rafah, the Israeli chief of staff, Major-General Moshe (Boogey) Ya’alon said it was ‘almost the last chance’ for such an