Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lev Greenberg | Haaretz Daily | 9 February 2005 Yitzhak Laor argued that the demand for a referendum is not democratic but meant to consolidate an ethnocentric regime (“Referendum means apartheid,” Haaretz, February 3). He also called on “doves” who support the disengagement to stop the formalist-legalist discussion and raise democratic arguments about the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amiram Barkat | Haaretz Daily | 20 February 2005 Fund used subsidiary Himnuta to acquire land near Green Line in the Jerusalem area Since 1967, tens of thousands of dunams of land have been purchased by the Jewish National Fund in areas of strategic importance in Judea and Samaria. The lands share a common

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Meron Benvenisti | Haaretz | 10 February 2005 It’s been a long time since Zionism had such a revival. Everyone’s joining in the cause to affirm their contradictory position on the issue that is the heart and soul of Zionism – “redemption of the land.” The attorney general’s decision to put an end to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul Campos | Rocky Mountain News | 4 January 2005 Daniel Pipes, the well-known neoconservative intellectual and director of the Middle East Forum, has just published an opinion piece in which he implies that the wholesale relocation of American citizens of the Muslim faith to internment camps might be a good idea. Pipes doesn’t

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | December 2004 Uri Avnery deconstructs Sharon’s recent speech to Israeli financial, political and academic leaders in which he painted a rosy picture of Israel’s prospects. But “the most important part of the speech was the part that was not there. There was no peace offer to the Palestinians. He did not

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Counterpunch | 9 December 2004 Ariel Sharon is surrounded by a coterie of “advisors” who step in to develop, perfect and sell plans for the continued and inexorable dispossession of the Palestinians. What is surprising is that these advisors, the intellectual progenitors of continuing mass crimes, are an outspoken bunch;

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liat Weingart | Znet | 29 November 2004 I’m in the living room of a family friend. The subject changes from yoga to Israel-Palestine, and I tell her that I think Americans need to change their foreign policy towards Israel. She says, “in what way, so that the Arabs will throw the Jews into

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem | The Observer | 5 December 2004 The message has been consistent: Israel believes the US-backed road-map is the way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It has been repeated by Ariel Sharon and by ministers, yet now government papers suggest that Israel intends to bypass the peace plan, creating a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Neve Gordon | In These Times | 12 November 2004 Will Israel take steps to address Palestinian grievances or continue myth-making? The leader and symbol of the Palestinian people is dead. His departure from the political scene has far-reaching implications, particularly for Israeli-Palestinian relations. The official Israeli line for the past four years has