Globe and Mail: Gerald Caplan: "A Mideast reading list for Tories willing to learn" (27/08/2010) "U.S. President Barack Obama is bringing together Israeli and Palestinian leaders next week in yet another attempt to find agreement between them. It seems a futile quest. The Palestinians remain impossibly divided and agree on little. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing coalition also have disagreements but are united on the biggest issue of them all: As they’ve repeatedly demonstrated by word and deed, they will never accede to even the minimum demands and will never accept a viable Palestinian state on the West Bank." Submit a comment online
Telegraph-Journal: Max Wolfe: "From Holocaust to Islamophobia" (30/08/2010) “Most of the world giving Arabs support in Israel’s war to maintain its independence. And then there were the smug fence sitters, such as Canada. Anyone remember Jim Keegstra in Alberta or Malcolm Ross in Moncton? These worthies led what can only be described as a quiet anti-Semitic war in Canada – not surprising, given the anti-Semitic attitudes of Canadian and provincial governments of the time.” Send a letter to the editorSubmit a comment online
MacLean’s: Michael Petrou: "Iran’s expat outreach" (30/08/2010) "Canadian invitees to conferences hosted by the Iranian government this spring and summer, aimed at burnishing the country’s image, included a former candidate for the Green Party of Canada and Ontario, as well as a University of Alberta professor." Write a letter to the editor
Sudbury Star: Carol Mulligan: "’It feels like he’s been gone a year’" (28/08/2010) "The heartfelt thoughts of Sudburians, who shared the grief of a family who lost "Canada’s son" in Afghanistan two months ago, were presented to Pte. Andrew Miller’s family Friday at Tom Davies Square… There has been a huge outpouring of support from people nationally and Canadian expatriates as far away as Israel, said Ealdama."
Globe and Mail: Li Robbins: "Balkan Beat Box: the Lady Gaga of folk revivalism" (30/08/2010) "Knowing the antecedents helps – Kaplan, who has a jazz background, played with the self-described “gypsy punk” band Gogol Bordello. Co-founder Tamir Muskat was the drummer for the global indie collective Firewater. The band’s stage-diving vocalist/rapper, Tomer Yosef, got his start as a stand-up comedian and D.J. All three are originally from Israel, and converged in New York City."
Le Soleil : Normand Provencher : « Films Français et étrangers: tir groupé en septembre » (28/08/2010) Read in English « Gagnant du Lion d’or à Venise l’an dernier, Liban, du cinéaste israélien Samuel Maoz (date à confirmer), est un huis clos sur la guerre, dont la presque totalité se déroule à l’intérieur d’un tank, lors du conflit israélo-libanais de 1982, où quatre jeunes soldats doivent composer avec leurs peurs et leurs angoisses. »
