Mona Baker

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

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lev Grinberg, Political Sociologist, Ben Gurion University | La Libre | April 2004 (Translated from the original French) The murder of Sheik Ahmad Yassin by the government of Israel is part of a major move carried out by the government of Israel, which can be described as symbolic genocide. Unable to recover from the Holocaust

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | Logos Journal | March 2004 In the last two years I have made three trips to Israel and Occupied Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza Strip). Each trip represents a journey into an approximation of the literary nightmares of George Orwell and Franz Kafka. To a certain extent we are all subject

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonathan Cook | Al-Ahram Weekly | 4-10 March 2004 Discrimination against Israel’s Palestinian citizens has been expanding to include a total ban of the use of Arabic language by workers, reports Jonathan Cook A photograph of Abeer Zinaty shows the 20- year-old student from the mixed Arab and Jewish city of Ramle in central

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yair Ettinger | Ha’aretz Daily | 24 February 2004 Deputy Defense Minister Ze’ev Boim, addressing the issue of why much of local, regional and world terrorism is directed by extremist Muslims, asked Tuesday, “What is it about Islam as a whole and the Palestinians in particular? Is it some form of cultural deprivation? Is

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin Qumsiyeh | Counterpunch | 8 March 2004 As I write this, Israeli occupation forces have just finished killing 14 and injuring 80 Palestinians in a five hour “sweep” in Gaza. Four of those killed and 26 of those injured were children (ages 10-16). In one week, Israeli occupation forces thus murdered 59 Palestinians

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ghada Karmi | The Guardian | 18 March 2004 Israel’s deputy defence minister, Ze’ev Boim, recently wondered whether there was a genetic defect that made Arabs terrorists. “What is it with Islam in general and the Palestinians in particular?” he asked on Israel army radio. “Is it some sort of cultural deficiency? Is it