Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Lind | New Statesman | 7 April 2003 America’s allies and enemies alike are baffled. What is going on in the United States? Who is making foreign policy? And what are they trying to achieve? Quasi-Marxist explanations involving big oil or American capitalism are mistaken. Yes, American oil companies and contractors will accept

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Alon and Yair Ettinger | Ha’aretz | May 2003 The prime minister and defense heads have requested an amendment to the Citizenship Law to prevent automatic Israeli citizenship for a child with a Palestinian parent. The move follows the discovery that the suicide bomber who blew himself up at the Mazza restaurant in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | Al-Ahram Weekly | 10 -16 April 2003 As I was reading one of the latest death threats I received via e-mail, I remembered the defamatory campaigns to which Edward Said has been subjected since the 1970s and which included the firebombing of his office in the 1980s. Since last summer, apologists

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Josh Ruebner | Al-Ahram Weekly | 10 -16 April 2003 Josh Ruebner*, in an open letter, calls upon Paul Wolfowitz to resign, now. To My Former Dean and Other ‘Court Jews’, Dear Assistant Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz, I doubt it if you remember me. That’s okay though. I don’t think that I did

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Bernard Josephs | The Jewish Chronicle | March 21, 2003 IRAQ-RELATED tensions and pro-tests from Jewish customers persuaded a Hampstead book store to cancel an appearance by anti-Zionist poet Tom Paulin. The Oxford lecturer and BBC cultural pundit – who has derided his critics as “Hampstead liberal Zionists” – had been due to participate

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robin McKie, science editor | The Observer | 25 November 2001 A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal. Academics who have already received copies of Human Immunology have been urged to rip out the offending pages and throw them

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Kinsley | msn.com | March 12, 2003 Rep. James P. Moran of Virginia, already a locally famous foot-in-mouther, went national last week by declaring at an anti-war rally that “if it was not for the strong support of the Jewish community,” the war against Iraq would not be happening. He said that Jewish

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Matthew E. Berger | Jewish Telegraphic Agency | March 11, 2003 WASHINGTON, March 11 (JTA) — Rep. James Moran (D-Va.) says he understands why Jewish leaders are furious with him over a history of comments against Israel and the Jewish community, and predicts the Jewish community will mount a fierce opposition to replace him

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shulamit Aloni | Gush Shalom | March 8, 2003 We do not have gas chambers and crematoria, but there is no one fixed method for genocide. Dr. Ya’akov Lazovik writes (“Academic Genocide”, “Ha’Aretz”, 4 March) that in the State of Israel it is impossible that the regime and the nation will plan and commit

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) International Women’s Peace Service | IWPS | February 14, 2003 Note: This is an important document because it suggests that the Israelis are now targeting highly successful technical students–not because of their political activity or for ‘security’ reasons, but because they promise self-reliance and development in the Palestinian community. Thanks to Haidar Eid for