Archive » Tag: Israel-Palestine
More Iraq war lessons, Canada and Israel and another AUKUS update
March 26, 2023
Media cheerleading and intelligence failures that helped sell the Iraq war are now being replicated in the Ukraine war and in relation to China’s activities in Canada. We find more media failings in our AUKUS nuclear sub update and welcome Canada finally speaking out against Israeli extremism.
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Qatar and the World Cup in perspective and more
November 27, 2022
QATAR AND THE WORLD CUP IN PERSPECTIVE With the 2022 FIFA World Cup underway, there has been no letup in the critical articles regarding Qatar’s treatment of migrant workers, including frequent reference to the 2021 story in the Guardian that reported 6,500 migrant workers had been killed since 2010 and which suggested those deaths were […]
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Harper’s foreign engagement more posturing than policy
September 29, 2015
In a brilliant article, the last Canadian Ambassador to sit on the UN Security Council, Paul Heinbecker, convincingly explodes the Conservative hype of “international statesmanship and principled policy, of economic action plans and historic trade agreements, of a rediscovered warrior spirit and newfound hard-nosed diplomacy.” (“Foreign Posturing: How does Harper’s foreign policy stack up?“, Literary […]
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The Forgotten War: A year since Gaza
July 3, 2015
Writers from Haaretz analyze relations between Israel and Gaza on the anniversary of Operation Protective Edge in ‘The Forgotten War: A year since Gaza’ (Haaretz, 2 July 2015) . “One year after Operation Protective Edge, Haaretz sends its top writers to examine what has changed since the 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas, and to ask whether – or when […]
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