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Once And For All

Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Like so many of you I am reading and observing the Palestinian onslaught from afar. The positions seem to be so absolute, so tightly held that it…

Preparing for the unlikely

Daniel September 10, 2013

Share this: A version of this post appeared as a signed editorial in The Canadian Jewish News on Sept. 12. As a new Jewish year begins, renewed U.S.-led peace talks…

Israel Blind To Its Own Isolation

Shawn Whitney December 3, 2012

I wrote less than two weeks ago that Israel was in an accelerating decline as a result of changed geopolitical realities in the Middle East, most recently and acutely the…

Palestine UN ‘observer state’ vote: Harper government lines up with Palau and Nauru

Jay Cables December 2, 2012

Bottom: Palestinians in Ramallah protest Harper's remarks about the Palestinian UN bid This week the UN resolution A/67/L28 granting Palestine non-member observer state status passed in resounding style - 138…

Gaza & The Not So Slow Decline Of Israel

Shawn Whitney November 23, 2012

Not alone any more: Egyptian protestors in Tahrir last year In some ways what just went down in Gaza was business as usual. Israel provoked a mini-war with Gaza killing…