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February 28, 2006 TorStar - It's a case of surfer beware for journalists - What was origin of `Hamas' video? The editorial, clearly meant to sway foreign policy, concludes with: "The international community should have no truck with a group that embraces such loathsome views." Fair enough - except for one thing. The Globe presents no evidence that the video ever appeared on a Hamas website. According to my research, as well as that of blogger Corinne Allen (YayaCanada.com) and Ottawa writer/activist Samah Sabawi, who first noted this, it never did. (See background under Feb. 23 and 24 below). CPTnet - Hebron Reflection: "If I were a Palestinian I would go to Tel Aviv and blow myself up." MMN - Popularity does not mean Credibility (Review of Paradise Now)
Februray 27, 2006 Washington Post - 'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea' Newsweek-Washington Post's Lally Weymouth interviewed Hamas's new prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, by phone in his home in the refugee camp where he lives with his wife and 12 children in Gaza...... Do you recognize Israel's right to exist? The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this occurs February 24, 2006 MESSAGE TO CPNO READERS FROM SAMAH SABAWI REGARDING HER ARTICLE ON THE GLOBE AND MAIL'S MISLEADING EDITORIAL ON HAMAS (See this site, February 23rd) Dear Canpalnet readers, I hope the Globe will continue to hear from its readers. If you wish to belong to a media advocacy group please contact me as we are in the process of forming one. Read Samah's letters to the Globe.
February 23, 2006 Sabawi - Editorial Delusions at the Globe and Mail: Hamas and the Missing Video Mr. Gee failed Journalism 101-- he failed to check the source upon which he based his editorial. Maybe he deemed the source credible only because it falls within his simplistic view of the world. In this case, the information the Globe and Mail relied on without questioning came from an extremist website. This is indeed appalling. This incident reflects a dangerous trend in the media. Journalists like Mr. Gee who in their zeal to push their own right wing agenda eagerly rely on suspect and biased sources. Such journalists have stoked the fires of war and conflict in the Middle-East and they should be held responsible for the brutal consequences of their sloppy brand of journalism. February 22, 2006 Aljazeera - West Bank playground demolished The Israeli occupation army has bulldozed a US-funded public park, including a children's playground and swimming pool, in a West Bank village, witnesses and officials said. Réghaï - Letter to Chief Phil Fontaine about First Nations trip to Israel I would like to express my concerns about the upcoming First Nations' leaders trip to Israel . While understanding and bridge building amongst communities is what makes Canada different from other states, a visit to Israel is not about Canadian communities but about links with a foreign state. Had the CJC's intent been educational only, it would have invited members of First Nations across Canada to attend services in Canadian synagogues.
February 21, 2006 LA Times - Palestinians Are Being Robbed by Israel Its Ministry of Health, for example, has been unable to pay its contractors for hospital food, equipment or medicine for three months, and is $22 million in debt. Now, with Israel hijacking an additional $50 million or so each month, the ministry will not be able to pay the salaries of its 13,000 employees. The same is true with the approximately 40,000 employees of the Ministry of Education. By taking their meager - but undoubtedly their own - revenues, Israel does not punish Hamas or persuade it to change its positions. It simply gives the Palestinians another reason to regard Israel as an aggressive and repressive occupying power. American Free Press - Israel: Give Up Your Nukes A report recently published by the distinguished U.S. Army War College has publicly targeted Israel's controversial-but officially nonexistent-arsenal of nuclear weapons of mass destruction TorStar - We should not cut aid to Palestinians The U.S., and even more so Israel, have until now failed conspicuously to give Abbas any practical help at all. That Israeli settlements in the West Bank have continued to expand without any restraint and that the Israeli occupation practices have continued to quite deliberately humiliate the Palestinians, is a major reason why Abbas's Fatah party lost the election to Hamas. And while all this has been going on, Canada has said not a peep to help Abbas.
February 18, 2006 Jews for a Just Peace calls for recognition of the democratic decision of the Palestinian electorateVANCOUVER February 16, 2006 —Jews for a Just Peace calls for immediate recognition of the democratically elected government of the Palestinian people by the Government of Canada.... The Israeli government threatens to withhold tax money collected by Israel and held in trust for the Palestine authority. We urge the Canadian government to demand that Israel release these funds immediately and unconditionally. The Record (K-W) - Apartheid label 'not anti-semitic' Uri Davis doesn't look or sound like a rabble-rouser..... But for all his quiet, intellectual manner, the ideas he advanced at a University of Waterloo talk last night are considered radical in many circles. Ideas such as these: Israel is an apartheid state. Israel is committing a slow form of genocide against Palestinians.
February 17, 2006 Bob Rae is widely touted to run for Liberal Leadership. Here is a review of the reasons he left the NDP. NP (April 2002) - Breaking Company With The NDP Svend Robinson, the federal New Democrat spokesperson for foreign affairs, has gone to Ramallah to show solidarity with Yasser Arafat. In a recent interview, Mr. Robinson described Israel as a terrorist state and proudly declared that he had "taken sides." Mr. Robinson's views are apparently now the official stand of the federal New Democratic Party. They are not mine. Let me explain why.
February 16, 2006 Pay attention to the end of the above quote—“absolutely no public value.” The point is not that the cartoons of Muhammad insulted or upset Muslims—offensive speech is defensible—but they gratuitously and maliciously enraged Muslims by falsely equating Islam with legitimate armed resistance to Israel's illegal Occupation of Palestine. If the cartoonists wanted to satirize the resistance they could have used the image of someone like Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri or Muqtada al-Sadr, but by defaming the Prophet, the cartoonists implicitly libeled every Muslim in the world as a terrorist. Yahoo News - Aid to Palestinians depends on recognition of Israel: Canada Canada will only provide aid to the new Palestinian government if the leadership recognizes Israel and renounces all forms of violence, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. Badil.org - Respect of Election Results is the Only Way Forward: A Statement to the international community issued by (OPGAI) We call upon our international partners, NGOs, states, the EU and the United Nations to:
Febuary 14, 2006 Guardian (UK) - Israel excludes Palestinians from fertile valley If Israel retains control of the valley, it would leave a Palestinian state on the West Bank entirely surrounded by Israeli territory and cut off from a direct link with the rest of the Arab world. Israeli leaders have also discussed extending the vast West Bank barrier so that it runs the length of the Jordan Valley and encircles all of future Palestine. NOTE: The Jordan valley is situated between the main population centres of the West Bank and Jordan NOT between the West Bank and Israel. This is clearly confiscation of Palestinian land. IMEMC - Palestinian and Israeli nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2006 February 13, 2006 CSM - Russia and France reach out to Hamas Tel Aviv - Hamas appeared to break out of its international isolation over the weekend as both Russia and France backed talks with the Islamic militants to discuss continued foreign aid to the cash strapped Palestinian Authority (PA). Yet six days before a new Palestinian parliament with a Hamas majority is
sworn in, Israel's government maintained its hard line. Yahoo! News - Israel lobbies against "Palestine" tag at Oscars JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and U.S. Jewish groups have lobbied
organizers of next month's Academy Awards not to present a nominated
film about Palestinian suicide bombers as coming from "Palestine," an Must Read Novels about Palestine - available through the Ottawa Public Library system. On the Hills of God by Ibrahim Fawwal In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi February 11, 2006 Press Release - Canadians, Arabs and Jews for a Just Peace Canadians, Arabs and Jews for a Just Peace calls for the immediate recognition by the government of Canada of the legally elected government of the Palestinian people. We urge the government of Canada also to insist that the government of Israel enter into negotiations with the Palestinian Authority for a settlement of the long standing grievances of the Palestinians and to put an end to the violence and killing that plagues both Palestinian and Israeli civilians. American Conservative - Forgotten Christians Independent (UK) - Architects threaten to boycott Israel over 'apartheid' barrier A group including some of Britain's most prominent architects is considering calling for an economic boycott of Israel's construction industry in protest at the building of Israeli settlements and the separation barrier in the Occupied Territories. .... The meeting discussed a boycott of Israel - targeting Israeli-made construction materials and Israeli architects and construction companies - as well as possibly calling for the expulsion of Israeli architects from the International Union of Architects. February 10, 2006 ACTION ALERT - PLEASE CALL/EMAIL CONCORDIA PRESIDENT TO DEMAND ANSWERS!! CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY SABOTAGES ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Concordia has been banned by the administration, without explanation or consultation, from using the Samuel Bronfman Building at Concordia University, to host an upcoming event, Israeli Apartheid Week 2006. February 9, 2006 Counterpunch - Church of England Votes to Divest from Israel On Monday, February 6th, the Anglican Church of England voted to end financial investments in companies supporting Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. The General Synod, a policy-making assembly, overwhelmingly backed the call by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem to divest from "companies profiting from the illegal occupation ... until they change their policies." Zatoun Canada - A project to plant 15,000 olive trees in Palestine Trees for Life will provide individual Palestinian farmers with new olive tree seedlings (3 years old) to plant and nurture in order to renew their decimated groves. The project will help offset the enormous destruction of olive trees by the Israeli army, Israeli settlers and the Israeli segregation wall in Palestine. February 7, 2006 Haaretz - Peace Now: No new West Bank outposts, but more settlers in 2005 The report, which was based on data collected by the government's Central Bureau of Statistics, also revealed that 12,000 new residents moved into West Bank settlements in 2005. This occurred despite the fact that some 9,000 settlers were evacuated from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank last year. Uri Avnery - "...Shall We Not Revenge?"
February 6, 2006 BBC News - Israel to pay frozen tax revenues Israel suspended the funds because it regards Hamas as a terrorist group committed to the destruction of Israel. But a minister said the cabinet decided to make the $45m (£26m) payment because Hamas was not yet in government.... Israeli Housing Minister Zeev Boim said Israel's payments to the Palestinians were to be halted again once Hamas formed a government. Imprint (U of W) - Reaction to Hamas Hamas has been active in the community, not as a terrorist organization, but one that builds hospitals and schools as well as providing bank loans. Its popularity has also been boosted by the image of their leaders being similar to an ordinary civilian you might run into on the street rather than a diplomat in a Georgio Armani suit. Although Hamas is also a military organization, it has kept a cease-fire with Israel for over a year now. Imprint sat down with Students For Palestinian Rights President Khaled Al-Sabawi to seek insight into the situation.
February 4, 2006 Jerusalem Post - '75% of Hamas voters oppose destruction of Israel' The Palestinian Authority's Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda daily survey stated that 84% of Palestinians support a peace deal with Israel. More than 75% of the peace-deal supporters voted for Hamas. The survey was based on responses from 863 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. B'tselemVideo - 'Abd a-Latif 'Odeh Must Go 22 Kilometers to Reach Farmland Next to His House, January 2006 B'tselem Video - Olive Harvest of Ibrahim Shatareh Goes to Waste, January 2006 February 3, 2006 Embassy Magazine - Tories Might Tilt to Israel at the UN With the Palestine-sympathetic Liberals out of power, the Conservatives might change how Canada votes on resolutions concerning Israel at the United Nations, a stance more in line with the U.S. Appearances to the contrary, the Liberal Party was the big winner on election night If Harper couldn't convince the Canadian electorate to give him a clear mandate he never will, because he will never have another opportunity like this. Not only were the Liberals gift-wrapped, but Canada's lazy, U.S. ass-kissing media were more interested in piling on Martin than in scrutinizing Harper's dubious credentials. Invitation to CPNO readers - tell us why you think the Liberals managed to retain so many seats. E-mail us.
February 1, 2006 Guardian (UK) - We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid Imagine Life - Order your free copy of Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported.
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