Guelph Mercury: Michael B. Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S.,: "Israelis have seen enough war" (18/9/2010) “Imagine that you’re a parent who sends her children off to school in the morning worrying whether their bus will become a target of suicide bombers. Imagine that, instead of going off to college, your children become soldiers at age 18, serve for three years and remain in the active reserves into their 40s. Imagine that you have fought in several wars, as have your parents and even your grandparents, that you’ve seen rockets raining down on your neighborhood and have lost close family and friends to terrorist attacks. Picture all of that and you’ll begin to understand what it is to be an Israeli. And you’ll know why all Israelis desperately want peace.”
National Post: AFP: "Mideast Looks To U.S. To Break Deadlock" (20/9/2010) "Top Israeli and Palestinian officials headed yesterday for the United States where they are expected to seek ways to break a deadlock over settlements threatening to sabotage peace talks. Israeli President Shimon Peres, pictured, left on a four-day visit coinciding with the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, before Defence Minister Ehud Barak set off for talks in Washington." Write a letter to the editor
Toronto Star: Martin Knelman: "Adir Miller: Super Seven: Fresh faces found at TIFF" (18/9/2010) "In Israeli director Avi Nesher’s resonant new movie The Matchmaker, Adir Miller seizes a breakthrough role and dominates every scene he’s in. Outside Israel, few people have heard of Miller but at home he is known as a former stand-up comedian who turns up frequently as a TV host and performer."
National Post: Charles Pedley, (letter to the editor) "Settlements aren’t the problem" (18/9/2010) "I think it is time for Mahmoud Abbas to show that the Palestinians truly want peace. He could do that by stopping the rockets, releasing the captured Israeli soldier from four years ago, remove the ugly lies about Israelis drinking the blood of Palestinian children from Palestinian textbooks and by removing vicious attacks on Israel and Jews from Palestinian-controlled TV, as a start. It is time for the Palestinian Authority to show its good will."
Victoria Times Colonist: Staff: "At your service" (19/9/2010) "Criticise Israel, Go to Jail? Professor Michael Keefer (University of Guelph) talks about his new book, Anti-semitism: Real and Imagined. Discussion to follow Professor Keefer’s presentation. Two presentations Friday, Sept. 24: 12:30 p.m. at UVic. David Strong Building C116 and 7 p.m. at BCGEU Hall, 2994 Douglas St"
CBC Radio "As It Happens" Carol Off interviews Israeli writer Gideon Levy: (20/9/2010) "An interview with Gideon Levy is a writer with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He’s been following the latest round of peace negotiations. Mr. Levy is in Montreal, where tonight he will begin a speaking tour that will take him across the country. Earlier today, he spoke to Carol from our CBC studio in Montreal." Listen to this interviewContact the CBC Today’s Internet News About Israel
Globe and Mail.ca: Patrick Martin: "Hamas member’s killing flies under Israeli public’s radar" (18/9/2010) “Israeli forces burst into the home of a senior member of Hamas early Friday morning and killed him with three bullets to the chest, though few Israelis know anything about it. It appears to have been a “targeted killing,” the first of a Hamas member in the West Bank for more than two years. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad – no friend of Hamas – called it a “dangerous escalation” in tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.” Submit a comment online CBC.ca: Neil MacDonald: "Lebanon’s return to tyranny" (20/9/2010) “Foreign journalists in this once-relaxed city are now assigned ‘minders,’ as they are in Damascus, or were in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. All is now forbidden. Interviews dry up at the last moment. No one wants to antagonize Syria or Hezbollah.” Submit a comment onlineRecommend this article Vancouverite: Yehonathan Tommer: "No school for 40000 Gaza kids for lack of space" (20/9/2010) “40,000 Gazan school children have been turned away from United Nations operated schools this school year because of the severe lack of new classroom space due to an acute shortage of construction materials entering the Gaza Strip since 2007.” Submit a comment online CTV.ca/AP: "Iranian president stops in Syria on way to UN" (19/9/2010) "Iran’s president said Saturday that Middle Eastern countries will "disrupt" American and Israeli plans to change the political geography of the region, appearing to brush aside U.S. efforts to forge a regional peace deal between Israel and its neighbors."
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