Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | May 2004 I) What is Apartheid? Apartheid is originally an Afrikaans word and this denotes the origin of the concept in the political system created by white (mainly Dutch and later English) South Africans. The word literally means “aparthood.” In the West it has come to denote a “legally sanctioned system

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart, Translated from Hebrew by Netta Van Vliet | Yediot Aharonot | 20 April 2004 Biddu is a beautiful Palestinian village, surrounded with vines and fruit orchards, a few miles to the east of the Israeli border of 1967. In the last couple of months, the village, that has lived in peace with

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Vol. 26, No. 9 | 6 May 2004 Ilan Pappe warns that Israel is heading for disaster The day after the assassination in Gaza of the Hamas leader, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, Yuval Steinitz was interviewed on Israeli radio. Steinitz is the Likud chairman of the Foreign Affairs

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robert Fisk | The Independent / Information Clearing House | 24 April 2004 Behold Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, would-be graduation commencement speaker at Emory University in the United States. She has made a big mistake. She dared to criticise Israel. She suggested–horror of horrors–that “the root

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Judy Dempsey in Tullamore, Ireland | Financial Times | 18 April 2004 European Union foreign ministers have pulled back from an all-out confrontation with the US over President George W. Bush’s support for Israel’s unilateral “disengagement” plan from the Gaza Strip. The decision to soften their opposition was made hours before the assassination of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Peter Hounam | Index on Censorship | April 21, 2004 The Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu came to the end of an 18-year prison term on 21 April. Peter Hounam, the journalist who originally exposed the story, reflects on 14 years of solitary confinement and the fiction of Israel’s non-nuclear status. ALMOST 18 YEARS AGO,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tany Reinhart, Translated from Hebrew by Netta Van Vliet | Yediot Aharonot | 20 April 2004 Amidst the political storm in Israel regarding the “Gaza disengagement” plan, only one really meaningful fact emerges: Sharon received Bush’s approval to proceed with his plan for the wall in the West Bank. With regard to the Gaza

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem | The Independent | 18 April 2004 Mordechai Vanunu, the man who first revealed that Israel had nuclear weapons, is “demoralised, worried and angry,” as he finally prepares for the end of his 18-year prison sentence this week. In one of the more grudging and unusual prison releases of recent

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz | 16 April 2004 South Africa will be very interested in the Israeli disengagement plan published yesterday. The political, military, and economic aspects of the plan for the Gaza Strip and the enclave in the northern West Bank are amazingly similar to the homelands, one of the last inventions of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Khalid Kishtainy | openDemocracy.com | April 15, 2004 An American life is worth a thousand Iraqi lives. Iraqi satirist and author Khalid Kishtainy does the accounts for the recent fighting in Falluja. I don’t understand the reason for all this fuss and world condemnation of the Americans on the Falluja massacre. Only around 600