Mona Baker

From 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

From 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

From 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

From 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

From 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

From 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

From 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

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | December 2004 Uri Avnery deconstructs Sharon’s recent speech to Israeli financial, political and academic leaders in which he painted a rosy picture of Israel’s prospects. But “the most important part of the speech was the part that was not there. There was no peace offer to the Palestinians. He did not

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Counterpunch | 9 December 2004 Ariel Sharon is surrounded by a coterie of “advisors” who step in to develop, perfect and sell plans for the continued and inexorable dispossession of the Palestinians. What is surprising is that these advisors, the intellectual progenitors of continuing mass crimes, are an outspoken bunch;