Month: February 2016

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scottish Friends of Palestine | indymedia.org | 17 July 2003 Imagine a concrete wall up to 1000 km long, eight metres high with a round watchtower every 200 metres. Visions of a Stalag come to mind, of a huge prison camp. Such an entity cannot exist, surely, without international condemnation echoing in the halls

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ben Young | Speech at a meeting of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in London | 28 June 2003 Speech delivered by Ben Young, Jewish Student (Queen Mary and Westfield College) at a meeting of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in London, 28 June 2003 With thanks to Ben Soffa. It is reasonable to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Lichfield in Paris | Independent | 17 July 2003 Extreme-right and neo-Nazi groups in France have formed an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim alliance on the internet with extremist Jewish groups, a report published yesterday said. Since the French far right is known for its visceral anti-Semitism, the alliance has puzzled and disturbed anti-racism campaigners

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris Bunting | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 4 July 2003 In an incendiary polemic, Baruch Kimmerling attacks the violent policies of Ariel Sharon and argues that failure to see that Israeli and Palestinian fates are intertwined could reduce the Jewish state to a footnote in history. Chris Bunting reports To his enemies,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada | 26 June 2003 A law forbidding Israeli citizenship for Palestinians from the Occupied Territories who marry Israelis passed its first reading in the Knesset on June 18. This is another milestone on Israel’s road to open, institutionalized apartheid. According to Ha’aretz, the bill forbids the granting of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Justin Raimondo | antiwar.com | 23 June 2003 Last week, after Israel targeted Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi – and, instead, got a woman passer-by and a three year-old child, while 27 others were injured. – George W. Bush came out with some very mild criticism of Israel: “I am troubled by the recent

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ran Ha’Cohen | Dissident Voice | 19 June 2003 Commenting on the Aqaba Summit, in an atmosphere of peace and reconciliation, a senior member of Israel’s ruling junta said it all. Major General Amos Gilad – the Government Coordinator in the [Occupied] Territories – told Yedioth Achronoth (5.6.03): “In Mid-Eastern terms, we have not

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Vik Iyer | The Independent | 20 June 2003 Suspended Labour MP George Galloway today attacked a newspaper which has apologised for claiming the anti–war campaigner had taken millions of pounds from Saddam Hussein. Mr Galloway insisted that he always knew the allegations were based on “malice, fabrication and forgery” and would “soon fall

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nick Pretzlik | (Circular) | April 2004 The world is too terrible a place to live in, not because of the bad things that happen, but because of the good people who stand by and do nothing. Albert Einstein Until recently it was a mystery to me how in the 1930s on of the most

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DPA | Ha’aretz Daily | 1 April 2004 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Thursday it stopped distributing emergency food aid to some 600,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA said in a statement that the suspension followed restrictions introduced by Israel on the sole commercial crossing into