Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | November 10 “Real armies attack armies, but the mighty Israeli army is ganging up on refugee camps and murdering women and children…It is not a heroic act to use state-of-the-art machines of death against impoverished civilians who even have a hard time securing food for their kids.”

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Tanya Reinhart – Talk at the Euro-Palestine Concert, Paris | 6 November 2004 We gather here at difficult times, when it seems that the Palestinian cause has been almost eliminated from the international agenda. The Western world is hailing the new “peace vision” of Sharon’s disengagement plan. The day this plan

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gilad Atzmon | Gilad.co.uk | 13/11/2004 In the last ten days of his life the world held its breath following what appeared to be an everlasting battle between a giant freedom fighter and the angel of death. Many of us were following the news with care, many of us were praying for the president’s

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush-Shalom.org | 13 November 2004 “Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him.” This biblical injunction (Proverbs 24:17) is one of the most profound Jewish moral tenets. In this connection, Israel is very far

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) The Canadian Islamic Congress | Press Release | 8 November 2004 ISLAMIC CONGRESS SAYS MEDIA AND TWO JEWISH GROUPS OWE APOLOGY TO ORGANIZATION, ITS PRESIDENT, CANADIAN MUSLIMS, AND THE CANADIAN PUBLIC The Canadian Islamic Congress today said that the Canadian media and two Canadian Jewish groups owe CIC, its president, Muslims, and the Canadian

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Halpin | Information Clearing House | 2 November 2004 The sea was warm. A kingfisher perched momentarily atop a rusting reinforcing rod with a tiny fish in its bill. Its iridescent beauty was a glistening tear drop on the face of this weeping land. Strings of boats were streaming out of the harbour

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) B. Michael (translated by The Other Israel-staff from Hebrew) | Yediot Aharonot | 15 October 2004 Between Sept 29 and Oct 15, fifteen days in all, I killed thirty children. Two children per day. Two dead children per day is more or less four bereaved parents per day. Why more or less? Because some

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nanjundiah Sadanand, Professor of Physics, Central Connecticut State University | Academics for Justice List | 29 October 2004 Yet another well funded organization has joined the crusade of the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the U.S to counter the increasing realization on the part of ordinary Americans of the brutal, indefensible realities of Israeli oppression

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) William Rivers Pitt | Truthout.org | 15 September 2004 This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | Financial Times | 8 October 2004 So now we know for certain. Ariel Sharon’s plan to “disengage” from the Gaza Strip is a gambit to freeze the Middle East peace process indefinitely, hang on to nearly all the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, deny the Palestinians a state, and set