"Anti-Semitism" Committee A Rearguard Defence Of Israel’s Crimes
It's nothing new really - the right wing, who can barely make their lips form the words "anti-racism", spend boatloads of cash to "take a stand" against anti-Semitism. Except that…
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And so it goes: Yahoos on the prairies.
I suppose some folks think that the regina mom is a yahoo cuz she’s shooting off her mouth all the time. Really, she hasn’t had a lot of time for…
What would questioning disguised pacifists accomplish anyway? The Gaza flotilla’s mission is a humanitarian mission first and foremost
Reading Christopher Hitchens’s article, titled “Some questions for the ‘activists’ aboard the Gaza flotilla”, in Tuesday’s edition of the National Post, almost got me to write a letter to Mr.…
Being Oppositional, ‘Socialist’ Filibuster Drinking Games, Pandering to the Misinformed, Attempting To Debunk Some Myths
Finally, I post my thoughts about the NDP filibuster of Stevie Spiteful’s draconian Back to work legislation of locked out Canada Post workers and the press coverage it has received,…
Freedom For Palestine: Music Video
Any song that's pro-Palestinian and makes Glen Beck cry on TV is right on with me. At a time when Toronto city council is debating whether or not it's discrimination…
Cancel your concerts in Israel – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Island
A musical parody drawing attention to Gaza, riffing on Gilligan's Island.
Stephen Harper’s moral relativism
In Stephen Harper's speech to the recent Conservative convention, referring to foreign policy, he announced that the Conservatives moral stance would be clear. "Moral ambiguity, moral equivalence are not options,"…
Israel Is No Different Than Syria
Israel likes to tout itself as the "plucky little democracy" in the Middle East, and as an island of European-style democracy besieged by a sea of dictatorships and dark, Arabic…
Baird gives Washington the green light by backing Obama’s 1967 proposal
Well if you were expecting to see more unity and a more streamlined process of decision making from the Harper government, you can forget about it. The new Foreign Affairs…
When The Ex-Mossad Chief Thinks You’re Crazy…
This article in the New York Times is interesting. The recently retired head of the Israeli Mossad (i.e. CIA) is using his newfound civilian freedoms to run around and say…
Conservative Bloggers Now Detest John Baird
When US President Barack Obama suggested that a peace agreement between Palestinians and Israelis be based on the borders of the "1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure…
One Government
Two foreign policies, one for Jewish voters and one for non-Jewish voters. Isn't it fun when a government mixes domestic politics with foreign policy?
Canada supports 1967 borders after all despite blocking this position at G8
Faced with significant pressure, Harper's Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has affirmed that Canada does, in fact, support Obama's position of using the 1967 borders with land swaps as a…
Right to Exist: An Inflated Conflict
If one follows the negotiation process over the years between Israel and Palestine, one finds an asymmetry between the issues raised and argued for in the negotiation process and the…
Canada dutifully fulfills the US’s role towards Israel
Canadian policy and rhetoric has been staunchly pro-Israel for a long a time. It is a stance which, especially with Harper at the helm, arguably resulted in Canada's inability to…
Let Israelis worry about Israel, we have enough problems
Should a new Palestinian state be created, and if so where should its borders be? WHO CARES!!! There are trouble spots all over the globe, Afghanistan of course, the Congo,…
Obama and the Middle East—time for the Yankee to go home?
I realize that U.S. President Barack Obama is now campaigning for the 2012 election. And I realize also the importance of Jewish support to his campaign. And I recognize the…
The Redoubtable Rick Salutin
Never one to allow either his ethnicity or his political beliefs to overshadow his intellect, Rick Salutin in today's Star has an article of interest to anyone who feels uncomfortable…
US Congress to Palestinians – You do not exist
Congress to Palestinians: Drop dead - Opinion - Al Jazeera English by MJ Rosenberg, Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network. If anyone had any doubt about whether…