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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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