Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
Monday, August 30th, 2010
On Sat. Aug. 28, the Globe and Mail ran a cautiously optimistic op-ed by Aluf Benn, editor-at-large of Haaretz:
The announcement of the resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks has been greeted by an indifferent Israeli public. Politicians and pundits lamented the effort as yet another futile exercise in diplomacy, the product ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
by Uri Goldflam
As pressure for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority continued to rise, PA President Mahmoud Abbas continued to stall. He was refusing to climb down from the tree that U.S President Barack Obama planted last year ("full construction freeze in settlements").
Meanwhile, the moratorium on building ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
National Post columnist Robert Fulford explores how Palestinians have remained permanent victims:
Refugees? Canadians, even if their families have lived here for centuries, know something about refugees. We know Hungarians, we know Vietnamese, we know many others. We admire their energy and their accomplishments. Observing them can be a bracing lesson ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
by Uri Goldflam
I'm about to confuse you.
A short summary of the past few days in the neighbourhood:
Unprovoked, the Lebanese army shoots and kills an Israeli soldier.
Six rockets are fired from Sinai, Egypt into Israel and Jordan. A Jordanian civilian is killed.
Three rockets and two mortars are fired ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
In this New York Times op-ed, Efraim Karsh, a professor of Middle East and Mediterranean studies at King’s College London, writes that the Arab states are actually not interested in helping the Palestinian cause:
It has long been conventional wisdom that the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a prerequisite to ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at how a double standard is often applied to Israel's conduct.
In a July 12 Globe and Mail opinion piece, “Is Israel a normal country?” Ian Buruma raised a number of ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
On July 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benhamin Netnanyahu appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live." In this informative interview, Netanyahu cearly his desier for "the leader of Israel and the leader of the Palestinian Authority, to get down together, talk peace and make peace."
If you missed the broadcast, or would like ...
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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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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Here is the offical transcript of U.S. President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's joint "press availablity" during their June 6 White House meeting:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I just completed an excellent one-on-one discussion with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and I want to welcome him back to the White House.
I want to, ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Ha'aretz reports that the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al-Otaiba, has said that that the benefits of bombing Iran's nuclear sites eclipse the short-term costs such an attack would entai:
Top U.A.E. diplomat endorses striking Iran nuclear sites
'It's a cost-benefit analysis: There will be economic consequences, as ...
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