Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Halpin | Information Clearing House | 2 November 2004 The sea was warm. A kingfisher perched momentarily atop a rusting reinforcing rod with a tiny fish in its bill. Its iridescent beauty was a glistening tear drop on the face of this weeping land. Strings of boats were streaming out of the harbour

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) B. Michael (translated by The Other Israel-staff from Hebrew) | Yediot Aharonot | 15 October 2004 Between Sept 29 and Oct 15, fifteen days in all, I killed thirty children. Two children per day. Two dead children per day is more or less four bereaved parents per day. Why more or less? Because some

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nanjundiah Sadanand, Professor of Physics, Central Connecticut State University | Academics for Justice List | 29 October 2004 Yet another well funded organization has joined the crusade of the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the U.S to counter the increasing realization on the part of ordinary Americans of the brutal, indefensible realities of Israeli oppression

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) William Rivers Pitt | Truthout.org | 15 September 2004 This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | Financial Times | 8 October 2004 So now we know for certain. Ariel Sharon’s plan to “disengage” from the Gaza Strip is a gambit to freeze the Middle East peace process indefinitely, hang on to nearly all the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, deny the Palestinians a state, and set

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | 6 October 2004 Twenty days ago I described the Nablus experience of Jewish Holy Days, and forecast what I thought the hermetic sealing of Palestine, announced by Shaul Mofaz on 10th September and said to be for Israel’s security, would mean for Palestine (Too Much to Atone

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oded Yinon, translated by Israel Shahak | KIVUNIM / Palestine with Provenance | February 1982 Commentary: This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14–Winter, 5742, February 1982, Editor: Yoram Beck. Editorial Committee: Eli Eyal, Yoram Beck, Amnon Hadari, Yohanan Manor, Elieser Schweid. Published by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush-Shalom.org | 18 September 2004 The Security Service is haunted by a terrible fear: that another Israeli Prime Minister will be assassinated. The extreme right-wing, which does not hide its admiration for Yigal Amir and his deed, harbors some who dream of a similar action. After all, if Amir succeeded in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JON ELMER interviews URI DAVIS  | 17 September 2004 Jon Elmer: Your autobiography subtitle describes you as an “anti-Zionist Palestinian Jew.” By way of introduction, can you explain that designation? Uri Davis: Well, that particular designation is informed by a commitment to a rather conventional principle: the separation of religion from the state. I

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Weir | If Americans Knew | 15 September 2004 The most monumental cover-up in media history may be the one I’m about to describe. In my entire experience with American journalism, I have never found anything as extreme, sustained, and omnipresent. Three and a half years ago, when the current Palestinian uprising began,