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At their meeting on June 14, the Toronto City Council voted to adopt the recommendation of the Executive Committee to accept the City Manager's Report that determined the phrase 'Israeli Apartheid' does not violate Toronto's Anti-Discrimination Policy, Ontario's Human Rights Code, or Canada's Criminal Code regarding hate speech.
Israel has come first again in The Bonn International Center for Conversion's (BICC) list of the world's most militarization nations. Iran is ranked 32nd on the Global Militarization Index (GMI) list, while the U.S. is 39th. Statistics are for 2010, the last year they are available.
The Israeli cabinet has approved a draft amendment to the country's citizenship law, an amendment likely to pass the Knesset. It would require non-Jews wanting to become citizens to swear an oath to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state." The requirement has several implications.
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Israel has reacted with squirms and wriggles, like a worm on a fishhook, to the trial in Turkey over the deaths of nine unarmed humanitarian aid volunteers on board a ship bound for Gaza.
The full extent of the atrocities carried out by Israeli on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla are beginning to emerge as the survivors return home with their powerful eye witness accounts.
Despite witnessing death and unspeakable suffering aboard the Mavi Marmara - the lead ship in the Gaza Flotilla - two Canadian activists said breaking the nearly three-year-old blockade of Gaza remains their primary goal.
US President Barak Obama and special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, are positively perplexed. This Middle East peacemaker gig really is more challenging than they anticipated. What a complex, thorny issue they have found themselves in.
Piracy has moved from the Horn of Africa up to the Mediterranean. On November 4, Israeli commandos boarded two vessels on the high seas, seized the passengers and crew, and took the vessels and cargo, which were en route to Gaza to deliver medical supplies, challenging the blockade.
Most Western leaders refer in their speeches to their countries' efforts to promote human rights.
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