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June 29, 2008 Gulf News - Sarkozy hits Israel where it hurts France's President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit to Israel on June 22-24 was striking for the candour with which he addressed his hosts.... This was the speech the US President George W. Bush should have made when he attended Israel's 60th birthday celebrations in May; the speech Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama should have made when he addressed Israel's US lobby, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), in early June; the speech German Chancellor Angela Merkel should have made when she was in Israel in March; the speech Tony Blair should have made when he was Britain's prime minister.... Meanwhile back here in Canada, Stephen Harper receives an International Human Rights Award from B'nai Brith for his unconditional support of Israel's Apartheid policies. Letter to Stephen Harper regarding his Human Rights award from B'nai Brith. It is announced with some apparent pride that you are the first Canadian to receive the B’nai Brith International President’s Gold Medallion, "in recognition of your Government’s efforts to fight discrimination and uphold human rights in Canada and around the world"..... Apparently you share this dubious prize with the likes and infamy of Ben Gurion and Golda Meir, two people that advocated and carried out policies of ethnic cleansing, theft of land, discrimination..... June 27, 2008 DFAIT News Release 123 - Canada reaffirms support for Palestinian Reform The Honourable David Emerson, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today provided details of Canadian contributions to Palestinian reform efforts. Canada is providing $15.8 million to a range of United Nations programs, including for emergency food aid, employment and health care. Canada is also providing assistance to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza. Canada is a strong supporter of Palestinian security system reform, particularly through our contribution to the mission of Lt. General Keith Dayton, the U.S. security coordinator, and to the European Union Police Coordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support. (Comment: Food aid is certainly much needed because the Israelis have destroyed the economy in both the West Bank and Gaza. But will it get through to those in need? The Harper government has certainly not uttered a word of criticism in regards to the Gaza blockade or the 400 plus roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank. What good is money for health care when the Israeli military prevents travel to access it? As for the "security reform" that is not aid to Palestinians, it is about protecting Isarelis and enforcing the occupation. "Aid" will not have any positive effect without justice.) This site seldom runs news about what is happening on the ground in Palestine - many other sites do that. Anyways, it is the same every day. Here is a small sampling....... IOA bulldozes thousands of dunums of PalestinianIsraeli occupation authority's bulldozers on Monday morning started destroying thousands of dunums of Palestinian lands in Beit Hanina village in occupied Jerusalem. Ma'an - Israeli army uproots 500-year-old olive grove in Beit Hanina near Jerusalem [Read more news directly from Palestine] June 24, 2008 National Post - Layton backtracks on UN racism conference OTTAWA - An internal caucus revolt has forced NDP leader Jack Layton to revise his party's position for a second time on Canada's participation at the United Nations conference on racism, to be held in Geneva next year. A delegation of eight angry MPs told Mr. Layton the NDP's call for Canada to take part in an event critics fear will degenerate into an anti-Semitic hatefest risks alienating the party's traditional blue-collar voting base.
Report from Ben, a Jewish friend and member of NION (Not In our name - Jewish voices opposing Zionism (Ottawa). A couple of months ago a friend of mine told me that the occupation steals time from Palestinian society. As I experience the apartheid system of transportation here, albeit with the privilege of an ‘international’, I’m beginning to understand what she was referring to… IMEMC - On the destruction of Muslim charitable institutions in Hebron by Israel By Maread Mguire, Nobel Peace Laureate June 22, 2008 The Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians (ACJC) endorses and supports the call by the New Democratic Party for Canada to participate in the Durban Review Conference....Those who are uncritical of Israel and cast a blind eye towards the issue of Palestinian human rights have supported the boycott and attacked the NDP for its principled position.June 20, 2008 Western News - Speech obscures Palestinian suffering Letter to UOW President David Davenport from faculty members With utter dismay we read Paul Davenport's speech at the Jewish National Fund (JNF) dinner held at the Best Western Lamplighter Inn on June 1. June 3, 2008 Culture Magazine - Heating Up: The Battle for the Jewish voice and the Jewish soul Dear Mom, Dad, your Zionist friends, and Bob Dylan too, I've got news for you all: The times they are a changin'! Remember last Passover? Remember when we sat around the Seder table and listened to you rant about Israel`s victimhood? About how ethnic cleansing really isn't that bad? And about how if they try to kill the Jews this time, we will at least take them all with us? Remember the rolled eyes of my cousins and the looks we exchanged thinking you were all nuts? Tadamon - ASSÉ Against Israeli Apartheid Today students in Quebec are now joining the international boycott campaign in large numbers including L'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ), an important Quebec-wide student federation representing over 42,000 students. June 2, 2008 The Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians (ACJC) endorses and supports the call by the New Democratic Party for Canada to participate in the Durban Review Conference....Those who are uncritical of Israel and cast a blind eye towards the issue of Palestinian human rights have supported the boycott and attacked the NDP for its principled position.June 1, 2008 CPNO - Counter-demonstration on the March to Jerusalem
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