Archive for the ‘Gaza conflict’ Category
Friday, July 9th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, has praise for an Economist editorial in support of Israel, and takes Globe and Mail columnist Rick Salutin to task for a breach of logic.
Yet another surprise from the Economist magazine. ...
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Here is an update from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the situation in Gaza:
Immediately following the government decision, the number of trucks crossing into Gaza increased from an average of 80-90 to the present average of 150 trucks. It is estimated that by the first half of 2011, an ...
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, commends the Globe and Mail for taking an editorial stance against Hamas.
Given the extent and the intensity of the international condemnation of Israel following Israel's botched May 31 seizure of the ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Washington Post columnist Roger Cohen writes that Hamas, "a totalitarian government steeped in a cult of violence and death" does not act in the best interests of the Palestinians:
It's a pity that Israel, while substantially loosening its grip on Gaza, will continue to enforce a blockade when, with just a ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
This article from Agence France-Presse looks at how Hamas is trying to influence Gaza's children via its summer camps, set up in oppostion to the United Nations' own summer camps:
A battle for the hearts and minds of children in the Gaza Strip has broken out with competing summer camps.
Both ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
by Uri Goldflam
A lot of forces, some deliberately some unwittingly, are pushing us towards war.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cares nothing for the Palestinian people. He is driven by personal ambition to bring Turkey once again to the leadership of the Islamic world. He knows that the best way ...
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
In April, The War and Peace Index, a joint venture of The Evens Mediation and Conflict Resolution Center at Tel Aviv University and The Israel Democracy Institute, looked at growing tensions between Israel and many countries of the world, some of them hostile for years and some more or less ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
This opinion piece by Charles W. Moore in the Saint John, NB-based Telegraph-Journal, makes the case for Israel's naval blockade of Gaza:
What did they expect? Israel wasn't about to let a bunch of politically-motivated provocateurs breach its three-year blockade of Gaza under the propaganda smokescreen of "delivering humanitarian aid."
Contrary to ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
This Globe and Mail editorial makes it clear that Hamas is the real obstacle to a better life for the people of Gaza:
Having welcomed Israel’s pledge to immediately ease the blockade of goods into Hamas-ruled Gaza, the Quartet of Mideast peacemakers on Monday warned that the current situation in Gaza ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
This no-holds-barred look at the UN's compicity in Gazam by Asaf Romirowskym and Nicole Brackman, is published in the National Post's Full Comment section:
Israel was the first victim but won’t be the last
By Asaf Romirowsky and Nicole Brackman
Since 2007, Israel has maintained a legal maritime blockade around Gaza. Gaza is ...
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