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Gaza Flotilla
In the early hours of Monday, May 31, 2010, the Israeli Defense Forces prevented a group of ships from attempting to reach Gaza. The ships carried several hundred activists and supplies for Gaza...
Jerusalem: Recognizing the Pre-eminent Jewish Attachment
Israel and the Jewish people have a pre-eminent religious, historical and political attachment with Jerusalem. While the Haram al-Sharif and the Via Dolorosa have significance to Muslims an...
Iran - A Multiple Threat to Global Stability
The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), issued in early December 2007, reports that Iran halted its secret nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003 and has apparently sh...
UN Human Rights Council - A Barometer for Gauging the Credibility of the United Nations
Canadians remain strongly committed to the process of multilateral diplomacy. But they are increasingly sensitive to the fact that the deficiencies and dysfunctionality of the United Nations syste...
Anti-Semitism & Intolerance
Of the destructive forms of intolerance that have afflicted humanity for millennia, anti-Semitism is among the most persistent. Not only do incidents of traditional anti-Semitism (including synago...
Canada-Israel Relationship
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Genocide
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Yom HaAtzma'ut - Israel's Independence Day
The Israel of today bears little resemblance to the state whose independence was proclaimed by David Ben-Gurion almost sixty years ago, on May 14, 1948.
At independence, Israel's population s...
Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries
In a June 2005 interview with the Canadian Jewish News, Prime Minister Paul Martin inserted an important element of moral clarity to Canada's Middle East policy.
Hezbollah ("Party of God")
Hezbollah's political manifesto calls for the removal of all Western influences from Lebanon and from the Muslim Middle East, Israel's eradication and the "liberation&quo...
Palestinian Claims to "Right of Return"
Although in need of a solution, the Palestinian refugee issue must be addressed as part of a comprehensive settlement that incorporates all regional refugee issues in a fair and honest manner.&nb...
Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)
The primary responsibility of a democratic state is to protect its citizens against all threats to security, including international and domestic terrorism. However, contemporary forms of global, ...
The Second Lebanon War (2006)
Since Israel's May 2000 withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Hezbollah acquired vast quantities of weapons and built networks of underground bunkers in preparation for war with Israel. This war began ...
Canada's Jewish Community
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Holocaust Remembrance
On November 1, 2005, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted an Israel-sponsored resolution designating January 27 as the annual date to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day. Co-sponsored b...
Darfur
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United Nations Reform - Canada Wields Considerable Moral Leadership
Successive Canadian governments have argued that the integrity of the United Nations must be enhanced through a process of meaningful reform to eliminate the politicization and partisanship that ha...
Hamas ("Islamic Resistance Movement")
The Hamas Charter explicitly calls for Israel’s destruction and the transformation of the territory between the Mediterranean and Jordan into a Palestinian Islamic State. Hamas was listed by...
Explanation of Vote – A Valuable Tool of UN Diplomacy
Most observers believe that Canada’s voting record in the UN General Assembly or the Human Rights Council is the clearest indicator of its position on a particular issue, and a litmus test of...
Israel and the Peace Process
Israelis have constantly strived for peace and have long recognized the need to share historic Palestine. The issue remains the Palestinian and Arab readiness to unconditionally accept Israel's ...
Nazi War Criminals in Canada
On May 24, 2007, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced the federal government's decision to revoke the citizenship of two men who hid their Nazi pasts when they entered Canada.
Helmut Ober...
Funding Fairness in Ontario Education
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Israel at the UN
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Global Terrorism
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Security Funding for Community Institutions
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CIDA
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