Month: November 2015

Ahoti, the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow, and Mossawa | Email circular | 25 March 2004, email circular received October 2004 Ahoti (Sistah-Heb) – For Women in Israel; NGO No. 58-036-274; P. O. Box 4027, Tel Aviv 61040, Israel. Ph. +972-3-525-0959 For all matters re this issue, please use the following e-mail address: ahoti_sistah@yahoo.com Enclosed please find a complaint we have filed

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) EFRAIM INBAR | Jerusalem Post | 24 April 2004 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has returned from Washington with the blessings of President George W. Bush for his unilateral withdrawal plan. He’s likely to win the May 2 Likud referendum on the plan, as well as cabinet approval. Then comes the real test: the physical

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Elizabeth Wasserman | The Atlantic | 25 March 2004 Benny Morris discusses the new version of his famously controversial book, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, which has left him alienated from both the left and the right. As a reporter covering the war in Lebanon in 1982, Benny Morris paid his first

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Derek Summerfield | British Medical Journal | 6 September 2003   Open letter to the BMA EDITOR—Persistent concerns have been raised about the role of the World Medical Association (WMA), the international watch-dog on medical ethics, in respect of their approach to the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) in particular.1 Matters have now come to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Bar-Ilan University | University Web Site | December 2002 Comment: this is an example of the extensive involvement of Israeli academic institutions in perpetuating and legitimising the occupation and dispossession of Palestinians. Some of the regional colleges referred to below are built on illegal settlements (Ariel, for instance), and references to Judea and Sumaria

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuven Pedatzur | Haaretz | 24 February 2004 In France, it took four decades after the withdrawal from Algeria before the old soldiers and men of letters began to bravely and sincerely question actions of the French army during its attempts to put down the Algerian revolt. The process yielded quite a few publications,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Israel National News | 6 March 2003 Note: Dr. Yuval Steinitz is a member of Professors for Strong Israel (http://www.professors.org.il/), a racist, pro-settlements academic group. Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Yuval Shteinitz, told Arutz-7 today that he agrees with the Cabinet decision made last night not to do anything and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Israel National News | 26 March 2003 Prime Minister Sharon’s office has given a cold shoulder to a new plan by National Security Council chief Ephraim HaLevy for a plan to recognize a Palestinian state in exchange for the waiving of the “Right of Return” claim. The head of the National Security Council, former

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Israel National News | 1 September 2003 Yesterday evening (Sunday), a new neighborhood of Kedumim, Mitzpeh Yishai, was dedicated. As reported by Arutz-7 on Friday, the neighborhood has thirty housing units already occupied, another 70 are under construction, and yet another 400 are in the planning stages. As more than 600 people celebrated the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JPOST.COM STAFF | Jerusalem Post | 31 December 2003 A pro-settlement group called the Professors for a Strong Israel petitioned the High Court against evacuation orders of four illegal outposts. The petitioners claim that the orders are illegal and infringe on their basic civil rights. They also claim that settlers have not received sufficient