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Archived Articles for September 2005 September 28, 2005 Justice Minister Irwin Cotler in conflict of interest? ( Letters from Ron Saba, Editor of Montreal Planet Magazine to Paul Martin) The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) is an Israeli think tank whose particular focus, as stated on its website is " the national security and foreign policy of Israel". The following is the link to their website: http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/about.html
As shown on the website, their board includes several retired Israel military officers and politicians, including former Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir. Canada's Justice Minister, Hon. Irwin Cotler is also listed as a member of BESA's International Academic Advisory Board. September 26, 2005 Gary D. Keenan - The Truth Regarding the 2000 Camp David Summit (This is the first of a series of three articles written by Gary Keenan for Canpalnet-Ottawa that expose the lie still being propagated by Israel and its supporters that Yasser Arafat was responsible for the disintegration of the peace process. Over the next month watch for article two on the outbreak of the 2000 Al Aqsa or Second Intifada and article three on the 2001 Taba II negotiations.)
To this day, Arafat is accused by Israel, its lobby, President Clinton and the mainstream media of causing the break down of the talks through his rejection of Barak's "generous" offer of peace and failure to make counter offers. September 24, 2005
Not only did Mr. Morelli personally interrupt the speakers critical of the police trip, but he failed to silence the cat-calls, interruptions, and abuse from the pro-Israel contingent in the meeting. The meeting was cut short by Mr. Morelli, who apparently decided that, despite the presence of several police officers, he could not control the crowd. Hagada Hasmalit - Sharing their joy
MMN: Canada's Muslims need a swift kick in their political allegiance On Aug. 13, Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, issued a media communiqué entitled "Islamic Congress Urges Re-examination of Two New Liberal Appointments: Strong Pro-Israel Voices in Foreign Affairs and National Security Making Canadian Muslims 'nervous' "In the first, Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew appointed Jonathan Schneiderman to be Middle-East advisor. Schneiderman is a former regional director for B'nai Brith Canada. Appointing a pro-Israel apologist to advise on policy in an area that overwhelmingly concerns Muslims is like appointing a klansman to give advice on black civil rights-utterly inappropriate.
In the second, Deputy Prime Minister Anne McClellan appointed Leo Kolber to a two-year term as chairman of a new advisory council on national security. Kolber sits on the board of the Canada-Israel Committee, and since we know the Bush junta and the Israel Lobby are joined at the hip, the thought of Kolber influencing national security policy is most disquieting.
September 17, 2005 Toronto Star - Hate crimes team gets a boost; Doubles in size to battle 'ugly reality' $200,000 more offered
"Hate crimes and extremism are the ugly reality that many of us have to contend with," Kwinter told a news conference yesterday, noting hate crimes have jumped 93 per cent since 1996. September 13, 2005. Haaretz - The real uprooting is taking place in Hebron What is happening in Hebron is different than everything else in the occupied territories. In Hebron, the most severe atrocities of the settlement enterprise are being perpetrated. While the settlers are lamenting "their uprooting" from Gush Katif and the knights of sorrowful tears are preaching for reconciliation with them and empathy for their plight, the expulsion of Palestinians from Hebron is continuing at an alarming rate. September 12, 2005 PMC - Israel Openly Defies US on Settlement Expansion Washington's 'Verbal' Objections 'Green Light' for Tel Aviv Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Saturday dismissed objections by the United States to the expansion of Jewish colonial settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), amid mounting Israeli open defiance of verbal warnings by the Bush Administration.
Global Research - Michael Keefer - B'nai Brith and CanWestGlobal (which owns and controls the Ottawa Citizen) would like to enforce "a standard of acceptable civil discourse" that effaces any distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-semitism. But as is made clear by an editorial in which the Citizen returns to the attack ("The right to be wrong," August 26, 2005), they want not merely to silence critics of Israel, but also to regulate and restrain free critical thought in a much wider sense.
Counterpunch: From New Orleans to Palestine By contrast with the thousands left behind as Katrina and the broken levees pulled New Orleans into the mud hole of the lake that once made possible its existence, thousands left behind because they had no means of evacuation no cars, no buses, no trains, no military transport, no helicopters the Israeli squatters were provided free transportation, new housing within the state of Israel, grants of $30,000.00 each and, additionally for seniority,NIS 4,800 for each year they lived in Gaza for each family member, in addition to reimbursement of moving expenses to the tune of NIS 14,000-21,000.00 to the Negev, Galilee and Nitzanin.....
Why mention these matters in conjunction with the events that have ravaged the Gulf Coast these past two weeks? Because the American taxpayer paid for the settlers to be moved and to cover the "disengagement plan" proposed by Sharon: U.S. aid for the pullout "was slated to offset the cost of implementing the disengagement plan." (Ha'aretz 4/9/05, Yoar Stern). September 10, 2005 Greenwood Publishing Group: Personal Policy Making, Canada's Role in the Adoption of the Palestine Partition Resolution Without the Canadian mediation between the two world blocs in 1947, UN resolution 181(II) to partition Palestine would likely have failed to secure the two thirds majority necessary for adoption by the General Assembly. Media Monitors: The Case for (Despising) Dershowitz September 5 , 2005 CJN: Ministers reject Elmasry claims about advisersTwo senior cabinet ministers have rejected a suggestion by a Canadian Muslim leader that they remove a pair of Jewish advisers for being too “pro-Israel.” September 5 , 2005 Deccan Herald: Liability of Zion: Terrorism's original sin Ariel Sharon is not the only terrorist to attain prime ministerial power in Israel. There were the likes of Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir before him - men puffed up by their terrorist pasts. Begin and his Irgun force had, in 1948, massacred 260 Palestinian men, women and children in cold blood at Deir Yasin, and shocked the world. A few months later, Shamir and his Stern Gang killed Folke Bernadotte, because this Swedish Count and UN mediator was upholding the Palestinian refugees' right of return to their homes in Jewish-controlled territory. |
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