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Those two old warriors, Jean Chrétien and Ed Broadbent, have been talking.
If there is a single event that should change the dynamic Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it took place when Israeli naval commandos attacked the Gaza Flotilla in international waters carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians, killing 19 people and injuring numerous others.
Early today Israeli armed forces attacked Freedom Flotilla, a fleet of aid-carrying ships, aiming to break the four-year-old siege on Gaza.
We Canadian Muslims support the promotion of democratic values for the public good; hence, we support free speech. This should go without saying but more often than not I find myself saying this over and over.
"There would NOT have been a war if Israel's prime minister, the much maligned Levi Eshkol, and his Chief of Staff, General Yitzhak Rabin, had their way," said Hart who was a Middle East reporter for the ITN (Independent Television News) before, during and after the 1967 war, "After Egypt's President Nasser had closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, they wanted only a limited military operation - to satisfy Israeli public opinion and, most of all, to put pressure on America to lead the international community in delivering on a promise President Eisenhower had made - that in the event of Egypt closing the Straits of Tiran, the "society of nations" would be mobilized to cause the Straits to be re-opened by all means short of war."
The House of Commons has passed a bill requiring all future Supreme Court justices to be able to understand French and English without the assistance of an interpreter.
The Palestinian boycott of Israeli goods from the West Bank is hurting. That is clear from the fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is visiting Canada next week has undertaken to denounce it.
The McGuinty government in Ontario has announced that it will end the special diet supplement for social assistance recipients with special needs.
With Egypt's presidential elections scheduled for October 2011, there is a high degree of uncertainty in the country. But one scenario will likely happen:
Few Canadians are aware that a militant band of conservative Christians, with a direct pipeline to Harper's cabinet, is also attempting to reshape the country's social, cultural and even scientific policies, according to Marci McDonald, author of the recently released book The Armageddon Factor: the Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada.
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