Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Weir | CounterPunch | February 8, 2003 It’s not every day that you get the chance to prevent a crime against humanity. This is one of those times. For several months now, those of us following events in Israel-Palestine closely have been hearing increasingly disturbing reports. Americans returning from the Palestinian Occupied Territories

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages of the Palestinian Bedouin | Electronic Intifada | 6 February 2003 The Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages of the Palestinian Bedouin in the Negev-Israel [1] condemns the demolition of a mosque in the unrecognized village of Tel Al-Mileh, and views this operation as the beginning of the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Neve Gordon & Catherine Rottenberg | CounterPunch | February 3, 2003 Nine Palestinian farmers were taken to the nearby military base. When they arrived soldiers jumped on them, tied their hands behind their backs and fixed a piece of cloth around their eyes. They were led to a deserted area in the base and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin B. Qumsiyeh | Yale Herald | January 24, 2003 In Israel, the coalition government of Labor and Likud fell temporarily. While the upcoming Israeli elections promise a split between doves and hawks, the reality is that the partnership of Labor and Likud goes back 55 years and neither party can help extricate Israel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Edward Herman | Znet | November 25, 2002 Palestinians are “Semites,” but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application to Jews, and failure to use it in reference to Palestinians, continues in the face of the fact that prejudice against Jews has sharply

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robert Fisk | The Independent | October 23, 2002 Thank God, I often say, for the Israeli press. For where else will you find the sort of courageous condemnation of Israel’s cruel and brutal treatment of the Palestinians? Where else can we read that Moshe Ya’alon, Ariel Sharon’s new chief of staff, described the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Laila El-Haddad in Gaza | Aljazeera Net | 4 November 2003 At first glance, al-Siyafah may seem like nothing more than a lifeless desert worthy of just passing attention. Dry sandy hills stretch out for several kilometres in all directions, interrupted only by the occasional obstinate bush of wildflowers. Most people in Gaza, let

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom | 1 November 2003 In the Six-Day War, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were murdered while storming the Sinai desert, the West Bank and the Golan heights. In the Yom-Kippur War, more than 2000 Israeli soldiers were murdered in the defense of the conquered territories. In the 18 year long

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JUSTICE MARCUS EINFELD | Australian Jewish News | 31 October 2003 NO-ONE in Australia has had more contact with Dr Hanan Ashrawi than I. In the 1990s, as president of Australian Legal Resources International (ALRI), a non-government corporation of judges and lawyers assisting countries in transition to democracy, I instituted a program in the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Antony Loeweinstein | zmag | 23 October 2003 Hanan Ashrawi is currently finding herself in similar straits in Australia. The Sydney Peace Foundation, associated with the University of Sydney, recently decided to award Dr Ashrawi its annual peace prize. Previous winners have included the East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao in 2000 and Archbishop Desmond