My fellow Blogger friend has put up a post saying that a Palestinian state recognized by the UN is the best way to achieve peace. He states that
That’s why they fight against Israel. Because they are living in bad conditions and have no sovereignty.
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An independent state for Palestine is the best way to create peace in the Middle East. Since the creation of Israel in 1948, violence has never stopped, fueled by hatred on both sides. Then in 1967, Israel took over the remaining Pa…
Continue readingMother Jones has a must-read post on something that is no mystery but needs to be said. Western evangelicals like Stephen Harper, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann et al have a devotion to Israel that on the surface is puzzling.These are people who are deep…
Continue readingDaoud Kuttab then continues on to say that the reason Israel isn’t allowing Palestine to be a state for no good reason.
Back in 1947, when the General Assembly voted to partition the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab s…
Continue readingI read this terrible opinion on the Palestine situation. This writer has written some facts, but neglects to mention any other facts that contradict him. First he state a quote from Obama
“when we come back here next year, we can have an…
Continue readingIt seems so little to ask. A people, already recognized as a nation by most other nations, requests full membership in the UN. It should be a shoo-in. Palestine is recognized by 65 per cent of the world’s states representing 75 per cent of the world’s …
Continue readingBarack Obama ‘will veto’ Palestinian UN bid Barack Obama has told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas he will veto his bid for UN membership… The position being taken by Obama — and by our own government — is that Palestinian statehood can only occur as a result of successful negotiations with Israel. Details aside, this effectively puts Israel entirely in control. As long as the Israeli government wanted to drag its feet, change the rules or otherwise prevent that successful negotiation from ever concluding then Palestinians would remain stateless. The future of Palestinians is entirely under the control of a government for which they have never had, and will never have, the opportunity to vote. How is it again that Israel is the only real democracy in the Middle East when it claims control over the fate of people who have no vote and no voice? And how is it again that the United States and Canada are the countries who promote democracy? Update: And Israelis say: A joint poll by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in the Occupied Palestinian…
Continue readingSupport Palestine’s Efforts to Have the UN Recognize Nationhood.
Continue readingBarack Obama showed what he was made of today – not very much at all.In a flaccid speech that appeared to convince no one, Obama said that recognition of Palestinian statehood was premature and the UN instead ought to use its efforts to push Israel and…
Continue readingThere’s an old saying that goes “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. I’m not sure what the appropriate riposte is when you’ve been scammed by the same dishonest brokers a hundred times over. That sadly describes the behaviour of th…
Continue readingIn a poll covering 19 countries, only 21% do not support a Palestinian state. In favour – 49%. Of course you know what the right will say about the poll numbers – 49% the world is anti-Semitic.It’s so reassuring that Canada is standing firm with the mi…
Continue readingGates and Netanyahu in happier timesIn a surprising column by Iraq war booster Jeffrey Goldberg, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates slams Israel, saying it is not serious about peace and is ‘ungrateful’ for the support provided by the USA.Goldber…
Continue readingA UN report shows that the Israel blockade is legal. As it protects the citizens of Israel by making sure that Gaza doesn’t obtain weapons that can harm it’s own citizens. This sort of Blockade has been done against Germany, Cuba and man…
Continue readingIsraeli blunder: Turkish ship Mavi Marmara as it’s being attacked by Israeli
commandos during attempt by flotilla to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip.
It was just over 20 years ago that I first became politically active around the first war against Ir…
Let Freedom Rain: How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stonesA side of the story you won’t read in the Canadian media. Heartbreaking account of Israeli ‘torture’ of Palestinian kids. Stephen Harper must be so pleased.
Continue readingThe Israeli paper, Haaretz, isn’t pulling any punches in denouncing the despicable way the Netanyahu government cozies up to radical Christian evangelists of the ilk of Glenn Beck: In recent years the extreme Israeli right has developed an alliance wi…
Continue readingThe Israel/Palestine issue is a particularly difficult topic to talk and write about simply because it is such a poignant, polarizing and established issue. Within a few sentences, western commentators on the issue quickly get lumped as either “pro-Isr…
Continue readingBBC meets its match. Liberal media my ass. Hey Tony, why not visit the CBC and kick some ass here, too?H/T: @EverettColdwell
Continue readingAntonia Zerbisias is a columnist and tweeter that I often like and have ocassionally agreed with, her politics regarding Israel notwithstanding. In a twitter post earlier today she wrote: “DAMMIT JANET!: Evidence that some cops are indeed pigs” and linked to this article. I won’t go into detail on the
Continue readingWhy Boycott Israel?Excerpt: Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, a co-founder of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Mark LeVine: What is the “Boycott, Divestment and San…
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