Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Inigo Gilmore | The Observer | 30 October 2005 It was one of the most shocking massacres to scar the Middle East, the slaying of more than 2,000 Palestinians by Christian militiamen in the wretched Lebanese refugee camps. Now a film has returned to the story of Sabra and Shatila. But for the first

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ran HaCohen | Antiwar.com | 26 October 2005 One of the difficulties in writing regularly about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is, in my eyes, that so little ever changes. The basic constants – above all, Israel’s overwhelming military, economic, and political superiority, all serving its colonialist aims – change slightly over years, if at all.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ramzy Baroud | Al-Ahram Weekly, Issue No. 759 | 8-14 September 2005 In the halls of infamy, Machiavelli and Sharon walk hand in hand, writes Ramzy Baroud* Many lessons can be extracted from observing Israeli dominion over the Palestinians in the past 55 years, most notably the audacious mandate of institutionalised violence. Even more

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammad Abed | Znet Magazine | 17 August 2005 I The Meaning of Disengagement Maintaining or intensifying oppressive policies requires the manufacture of a diversion, a ‘smokescreen’ that buys time and accumulates political capital. One reliable way of accumulating political capital is to make changes that incur minimal political and human costs while creating

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammed Abed | The Badger Herald | 8 September 2005 The territory of historical Palestine is home to two ethnic groups, Israelis and Palestinians. Today, this entire territory is under the full political and military control of Israel, a state that defines itself as serving the interests of only one of the ethnic groups

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shahid Alam | 1 September 2005 “Captain Gordon Pim stated in his speech that it was a philanthropic principle to kill natives; there was, he said, “mercy in a massacre.” Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate the Brutes (1996) At last Mr. Elie Wiesel has spoken of the ‘dispossessed’ in Palestine. It is appropriate that he should

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sara Roy | Miftah | 20 August 2005 Israel’s disengagement plan is widely hailed by the international community, led by the United States, as a first step toward the final resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. This essay is a refutation of that view. After presenting the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stopthewall.org | August 24th, 2005 Without a doubt, the Zionist Occupation of Palestine did not evacuate the Gaza settlers out of good will. The Occupation understood that it would never be able to defeat Palestinians in Gaza, and despite all the Israeli crimes, sieges, and massacres, that the Palestinian resistance could not be broken.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Levy | Haaretz | August 14, 2005 The struggle against incitement is the refuge of cowards, who are afraid to attack the inciters for their genuine acts of injustice. The battle by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz against turning incitement into a wholesale offense is an important fight to preserve freedom of expression in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hind Khoury | International Herald Tribune | 11 August 2005 JERUSALEM After more than 38 years of its oppressive military occupation of the Gaza Strip, Israel will soon begin evacuating the few thousand settlers who have been denying freedom to more than a million Palestinians there. Israel has marketed the Gaza withdrawal as yet