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.…
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,…
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…
A musical parody drawing attention to Gaza, riffing on Gilligan's Island.
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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?
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…
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…
It looks like it’s Israel and its Prime Minister who are the most powerful in the World, and not the United States. When Barack Obama in his speech said that…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Netanyahu and the one-state solution - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Excerpt: At this new intersection, there are two signs. The first points towards the west and reads "viable and…
I think we all agree hat we want peace in the Middle East. The road to that peace is difficult, and shouldn't be expected to be short. I think if…
