Archived
Articles for January 2005
January 30, 2005
Axisoflogic:
Should people opposed to bigotry and anti-Semitism support Israel?
Zionist dogma is both morally and practically wrong...One Doesn't Win
the Fight Against Bigotry With More Bigotry
January 29, 2005
Belanger:
Irshad Manji's Trip to Israel
When
listening to politicians or reading certain columnists, I often have to
ask myself if they are stupid, ill-informed, or motivated by profit.
The views expressed on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by Irshad Manji
in her book The Trouble with Islam certainly leave me asking
these
questions.
January 28, 2005
G&M: Jerusalem-born youth wants 'Israel' on
passport
B'nai
Brith Canada launched a lawsuit yesterday against the federal
government's passport policy, accusing it of discrimination when it
comes to passports of Canadian citizens born in Jerusalem.
January 27, 2005
Qumsiyeh: Palestine
ghost haunts UN Commemoration of Camp Liberation
David Ben Gurion, the father of the State of Israel and its first prime
minister, once stated: ''If I knew that it would be possible to save
all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only
half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt
for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the accounting
these children, but also the historical accounting of Am Yisrael'
NJSol:
Zionism is the Issue: Building a Strong Pro-Palestinian Movement In the
US
Freedom for Palestine will not come as a result of a solution imposed
by the U.S., Europe, or any other power: it will come from a struggle
for liberation waged on the ground--both in Palestine, and in the
region surrounding it--or it will not come at all. A solidarity
movement that is genuine must find effective ways to support that
struggle.
January
26, 2005
Newprofile:
Palestinian textbooks: Where is all that 'incitement'?
Time and again, independently of each other, researchers find no
incitement to hatred in the Palestinian textbooks...The biggest constraint,
in the words of a Palestinian parent, is that Israeli tanks and
soldiers are shooting in the streets outside while teachers are trying
to promote peace in the classroom.
ISM: Montreal Resident in Palestinian Village
Currently Under Siege
While Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is working with the
Palestinian armed resistance to implement a cease fire, the Israeli
forces continue to invade, occupy, kill, and capture Palestinians, and
demolish their homes.
Dawn: US, Israel force
Annan into removing official
Peter Hansen has led the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) since Feb
1996 and had signalled he was willing to serve a fourth three-year term
at its helm, but Israel opposed his appointment and persuaded US to
oppose his reappointment.
January
24, 2005
Terral:
In the shadow of the big headlines
The Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement has been removing tariffs from
most manufactured goods since January 1, 1997. This is Canada's only
free trade agreement outside the Western Hemisphere. Indeed, Canada and
Israel have a number of other agreements too.
January
23, 2005
TorStar: Arab events draw
ire
The
University of Toronto says it will not interfere with a series of
events, dubbed "Israeli Apartheid Week," planned for later this month
and organized by an independent campus group, the Arab Students'
Collective.
Amin: Suad
Amiry’s Book on Life in Palestine under Occupation Exposes Israeli
Crazy-Makers
Israel is involved in a campaign against anything Arab (as opposed to
Jewish) some sympathetic Israeli scholars explain. Amiry’s job is
to
document that heritage and restore it whenever possible, even though
she cannot protect it.
Emails
from the edge - Suad Amiry's Background
Her friends loved these emails, and began to look forward to them. One,
an Israeli, even asked if she might show them to a publisher. 'I was
amazed,' says Amiry. 'I didn't really understand. I'm dyslexic. I have
never thought of myself as a writer.'
January
22, 2005
Ha'aretz:
Gov't decision strips Palestinians of their East J'lem property
The Sharon government implemented the Absentee Property Law in East
Jerusalem last July, contrary to Israeli government policy since
Israeli law was extended to East Jerusalem after the Six Day War. The
law means that thousands of Palestinians who live in the West Bank will
lose ownership of their property in East Jerusalem.
See also
Ha'aretz Followup article: Injustice and Stupidity in Jerusalem
TorStar:
In an orange grove, new seeds of hope
Israel had its reasons for laying waste to the groves of Beit
Hanoun...But there is little solace in this for Zanin, who yesterday
looked upon his 50 barren dunams (five hectares) of sandy soil and
described what once was there, and what it meant to him.
January
21, 2005
MedMon/Felton:
Acute disasters reveal Canada's chronic shortcomings
"The outpouring of official compassion and aid for the victims of [the
Darfur massacre and the tsunami] is gratifying but also shameful, given
the virtual lack of official compassion and aid afforded the victims of
Israeli and U.S. atrocities."
Cjnews/Gerber:
Messianic settlers put all of Israel at risk
Whatever romantic thoughts places such as Gush Etzion or Efrat may
raise, settlements have become a terrible burden to Israel and a heavy
chain that is dragging the country and its hopes for a settlement with
the Palestinians into a black pit. Settlements are a bad, destructive
idea, one that Sharon promoted for too long and one that will cost him
and the country dearly.
January 19, 2005
University
of Toronto senior law students write to Prime Minister Paul Martin to
oppose Joe Volpe's appointment as Minister of Citizenship and
Immigration
...any Minister of Citizenship and Immigration requires a balanced and
nuanced understanding of, and respect for, international legal
instruments and institutions. It is our opinion that Mr. Volpe lacks
both of these qualities.
January 18, 2005
Politics & Policies: A major loss for the PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization Legal Unit is being shut down.
According to Buttu, pressure was exerted to shut down the unit. The
pressure initially came from the donor countries, then from Palestinian
authorities themselves. When asked why, Buttu, who holds Canadian
citizenship and was educated at Stanford, said that the donor countries
came under pressure to stop financing the project. Asked where the
pressure on the donors came from, she smiles, shrugs, and says, "guess."
January 16, 2005
Canada,
Bush II and the challenge of Middle East policy
Has Canada become an irrelevant and minor player in the Middle East?
What is the impact of a second George W. Bush administration (Bush II)
on Canadian foreign policy, especially in the Middle East?
CanadaEast:
Abbas takes office in crisis; Israel cuts ties until militants reined in
Mahmoud Abbas, who was being sworn in as Palestinian Authority
president Saturday, starts the job with a full-blown crisis on his
hands: Israel, with apparent U.S. blessing, cut contacts with his
government until he reins in militants.
January 15, 2005
Globe and Mail:
Shifting our Mideast policy makes us a loser
"The
Palestinians did what the West, and Canada, told them to do, and used
non-violent means to resist Israel's actions by going to the ICJ. And
what did Canada do? It turned its back on them. This told the
Palestinians that the legal means are not on their side, and the use of
force is the only answer." Not the kind of message Canada should be
sending if it is the moderates we want to strengthen.
January 13, 2005
TorStar/Zerbisias: Probe here over aired Arab slurs - Arafat
mourners derided on MSNBC
The
all-news MSNBC, which recently got the go-ahead for unrestricted access
to Canada's digital dial, may have run afoul of our hate laws when its
Imus In The Morning advocated dropping a bomb on Palestinians to "kill
'em all."
January 11, 2005
Cultures
come together over good food: Potluck for Peace unites Muslims and Jews
who are seeking solutions to the Mideast conflict
While
Palestinians in the West Bank took to the polls in an election that
many feel will bring change to the Middle East conflict, Muslims and
Jews in Ottawa did their part to make peace.
January 10, 2005
Felton:
Mahmoud Abbas -- The Voice of Treason
"If the 1930s taught us nothing else, it is that appeasement toward a
colonial oppressor merely emboldens it to take more land and kill more
people. Nevertheless, Abbas is eager to play Neville Chamberlain to
Sharon’s Adolf Hitler."
January 9, 2005
Tarek
Fatah: Thanks, but No Thanks: Irshad Manji's Book Is for Muslim Haters,
Not Muslims
It is not often that a person thanked in the acknowledgement of a book
turns around and announces publicly, ‘thanks, but no thanks.’ And
yet this is precisely what I am about to do. At the receiving end of my
rejection is Irshad Manji, the Salman Rushdie wannabe author of the
fatwa-shopping, newly released book, “The Trouble with Islam.”
January 8, 2005
More
reader comment on "The Trouble with The Trouble with Islam"
I
find it
odd that respondents are positive about such a mean-spirited review of "The Trouble With Islam" as the one given by Linda Belanger. Irshad
Manji is interested to have Muslims READ and DISCUSS the Qur'an.
She never pretends to be other than a lay person in this regard but,
courageously I think, she plunges in.
January 7, 2005
Johal: Stand Still Like the Humming
Bird: Towards a New Palestine
The failure of today is the
failure of the leadership's inability to look at new approaches and
solutions. The leadership have promoted a culture of detritus,
misinformation and a jaundiced public discourse that does not serve the
interests of both nations.
Letter to Calgary Sun in support of Bill
Kaufmann ( Reality
trumps PR - Israel faces a tough sell in increasingly brutal
conflict ) gets appended to it a sarcastic
Editor's note about the motives of all Palestinians. Nothing
epitomizes racism more than this type of blanket statement.
Sakhnini: Zionism and Peace
in Palestine
Peaceful
co-existence requires respect for and acceptance of the other as an
equal human being with equal human rights. Zionism is based on
ethnic
superiority and complete denial of the other, which leaves no room for
peace with Zionism in Palestine.
Lowi: Democracy
and elections in the Palestinian territories
Henry Lowi likens the upcoming Palestinian elections to prisoners
electing representatives to interact with the prison administration
over the conditions of their incarceration and outlines the role of
Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and democrats in this "election" period.
January
5, 2005
More
reader comment on "The Trouble with The Trouble with Islam"
"The first
thing I noticed was that Irshad had an incredible amount of hostility
for her father, and blamed Islam for everything negative that had
happened to her."
Some
examples of letters written in
support of Journalist Bill Kaufmann of the Calgary Sun for his
recent article: "Reality trumps PR - Israel faces a tough sell in
increasingly brutal conflict"
January
4, 2005
Reader
comments about Linda Belanger's "The Trouble with The Trouble
with Islam"
'She
has used to tragedy of 9/11 and the fact she was born into a
Muslim
family - although she will not admit it, I suspect the Ismaili sect -
as a means of enhancing what had been a relatively insignificant career
as a writer, commentator etc. Adopted by the Asper/CanWest
gang, she
has become their "good Muslim"... More...
January
3, 2005
Calgary Sun: Reality trumps PR - Israel faces a tough sell in increasingly brutal conflict
..."the more Canadians become familiar with the conflict, the
more they tend to sympathize with the Palestinians."
Note: Journalists who reveal the
facts about the occupation are targeted by the Zionist lobby. Please send a note of support to Bill Kaufmann
January
2, 2005
Belanger:
The Trouble with The Trouble with Islam
Part One of a two part analysis of Irshad Manji's book The Trouble
with Islam.
Could Ms. Manji be selectively ignoring facts that do not fit into the
thesis she wishes to advance? This is a technique frequently used
by neo-con columnists in the pages of the National Post and other
Canwest Global papers.
Samah
Sabawi - Diary Entry XIX
A photo tour of Amman, Jordan on Christmas Eve
These photos speak for themselves about Muslim and Christian unity in
the Middle East.
UN
Ambassador
Allan Rock Tuesday delivered a scathing denunciation of the General
Assembly's resolutions isolating and attacking Israel, confirming a
shift in Canada's approach to the Middle East.
January
1, 2005
On location
report: Mohammed Omar: December 31, 2004 - Death Stalks the People of
Khan Younis
This is the deadliest incursion since the death of Yassir Arafat on 11
November. So far, there have been 11 civilian fatalities and 71
injuries—and this attack, now in its third night, started only hours
after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the international media
of the prospects for peace.
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