Israeli settlement in the West Bank near Za’atara. Photo by Ralf Roletschek/Wikimedia Commons. Bob Rae, Canada’s United Nations ambassador, recently stated that “the ultimate responsibility for the conduct of the [Gaza] war lies with the parties who are fighting.” In so doing, Rae, a former Rhodes scholar, ignores the United
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Canadian Dimension: Hezbollah still a useful bogeyman for Israel and the US
Hezbollah fighters march in a parade in Beirut. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The Israeli state is rightly concerned about the possibility of large-scale attacks from the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah. Much is made of the group’s links to Iran, Israel’s former ally and current Middle East competitor. In the subjective
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“Bibi What Have You Done? You’ve Ripped The People Apartǃ” reads a sign by Brothers in Arms, an organization of reserve men and women from various units in the IDF, in Tel Aviv, set up after the war broke out, October 9, 2023. Photo by Oren Rozen/Wikimedia Commons. The recent
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Palestinian Nakba and the creation of Israel deserve equal recognition
This May marks the seventy-second anniversary of two conflicting narratives: Yom Ha’Atzmaut, the founding of the state of Israel, and the 1948 Palestinian expulsion, also known as the Nakba. Official Canada still refuses to acknowledge the Nakba, an event which has been described by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as an
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