Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Peter Hounam | Index on Censorship | April 21, 2004 The Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu came to the end of an 18-year prison term on 21 April. Peter Hounam, the journalist who originally exposed the story, reflects on 14 years of solitary confinement and the fiction of Israel’s non-nuclear status. ALMOST 18 YEARS AGO,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tany Reinhart, Translated from Hebrew by Netta Van Vliet | Yediot Aharonot | 20 April 2004 Amidst the political storm in Israel regarding the “Gaza disengagement” plan, only one really meaningful fact emerges: Sharon received Bush’s approval to proceed with his plan for the wall in the West Bank. With regard to the Gaza
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem | The Independent | 18 April 2004 Mordechai Vanunu, the man who first revealed that Israel had nuclear weapons, is “demoralised, worried and angry,” as he finally prepares for the end of his 18-year prison sentence this week. In one of the more grudging and unusual prison releases of recent
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz | 16 April 2004 South Africa will be very interested in the Israeli disengagement plan published yesterday. The political, military, and economic aspects of the plan for the Gaza Strip and the enclave in the northern West Bank are amazingly similar to the homelands, one of the last inventions of
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Khalid Kishtainy | openDemocracy.com | April 15, 2004 An American life is worth a thousand Iraqi lives. Iraqi satirist and author Khalid Kishtainy does the accounts for the recent fighting in Falluja. I don’t understand the reason for all this fuss and world condemnation of the Americans on the Falluja massacre. Only around 600
» Read moreOmar Robert Hamilton The Guardian, Monday 25 January 2016 I didn’t take my camera out with me the night Hosni Mubarak was overthrown. I stood in Tahrir Square among tens of thousands of Egyptians and told myself I would enjoy the moment, I would not divide myself from the night’s magical reality with a lens. I had filmed up until then because it
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lev Greenberg | Haaretz Daily | 9 February 2005 Yitzhak Laor argued that the demand for a referendum is not democratic but meant to consolidate an ethnocentric regime (“Referendum means apartheid,” Haaretz, February 3). He also called on “doves” who support the disengagement to stop the formalist-legalist discussion and raise democratic arguments about the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amiram Barkat | Haaretz Daily | 20 February 2005 Fund used subsidiary Himnuta to acquire land near Green Line in the Jerusalem area Since 1967, tens of thousands of dunams of land have been purchased by the Jewish National Fund in areas of strategic importance in Judea and Samaria. The lands share a common
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Meron Benvenisti | Haaretz | 10 February 2005 It’s been a long time since Zionism had such a revival. Everyone’s joining in the cause to affirm their contradictory position on the issue that is the heart and soul of Zionism – “redemption of the land.” The attorney general’s decision to put an end to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul Campos | Rocky Mountain News | 4 January 2005 Daniel Pipes, the well-known neoconservative intellectual and director of the Middle East Forum, has just published an opinion piece in which he implies that the wholesale relocation of American citizens of the Muslim faith to internment camps might be a good idea. Pipes doesn’t
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