Toronto Star: Dow Marmur: "Redefining the Jerusalem syndrome" (10/1/2011) "Wikipedia describes the Jerusalem syndrome as “a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of either religiously themed obsessive ideas, delusions or other psychosis-like experiences that are triggered by a visit to the city of Jerusalem.” Therapists report that in most cases patients recover after they leave town, unless the syndrome imposes itself on a previous psychotic illness or afflicts people prone to idiosyncratic ideas." Send a letter to editor Submit online comment
National Posted: Terry Glavin: The missing voices of human rights" (10/1/2011) “Set aside for the moment the fact that the U.N. council is dominated by human rights abusers who devote most of the agenda to condemnations of Israel. Who has heard what the council said about, say, the recent events in Belarus? The obvious answer: far fewer people than would have noticed if the same critique came from Obama or Clinton.” Submit online comment
TheChronicleHerald.ca: Matt Semansky: "Muslim congress founder dispels myths" (9/1/2011) "… thanks to writers such as Tarek Fatah, whose new book The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths That Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism provides an invaluable service for readers of all faiths. In it, Fatah, the founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, thoroughly debunks the idea that Jews and Muslims have been set against each other by divine order, as well as the fallacious argument that antipathy between the two religions has been a fixture down through the centuries." Send a letter to editor
Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Reuters: "Living in a world of risk" (11/1/2011) "What’s the chance of an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities to slow Tehran’s progress towards atomic weapon capability? The only thing we can say is that it’s a probability of somewhere between zero and 100 per cent. What can be said with certainty is that the economic impact of Israeli action would be enormous initially, which means this risk can’t be ignored…" Send letter to editor
Montreal Gazette: Andrew Cohen: "The distemper of U.S. times" (10/1/2011) "Much of the United States has a frontier mentality, comfortable with guns in a way Canada and other democracies are not. Israel killed Yitzhak Rabin, Sweden killed Olof Palme and Canada killed James Cross, but political violence is rare" See also: National Post
CBC.ca: "MacKay begins Mideast visit in Israel" (10/1/2011) "Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay met with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak in Tel-Aviv on Monday, the first leg of a Middle East visit that will take him to the Palestinian territories and Jordan." Submit online comment
CBC National: Anchor: "Mackay in Israel" (10/1/2011) "Defence Minister Peter Mackay began a visit to the Middle East in Israel today. Mackay met with his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak. Their discussions centered around military cooperation and shared technology. The minister also has visits planned in Jordan and with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank." Watch newscastContact CBC
CBC News Now: Anchor: "Mackey in Israel, heading to West Bank" (11/1/2011) "Canada’s defence minister is in the middle east this week. Peter Mackay will meet with Israeli and Jordanian and Palestinian leaders during a four-day tour of the region. He kicked off his trip in Israel where he met with his Israeli counterpart and he thanked Israel for support for Canadian forces serving in Afghanistan and he’ll head to the west bank where he’ll meet Palestinian officials and Canadian troops training Palestinian security forces and he’ll wrap up his trip in Jordan." Clip unavailable
CBC News Now: Anchor: "Mackay thanks Israel for its support of Canadian forces in Afghanistan" (10/1/2011) "Expressions of gratitude today from Canada’s Defence Minister who is visiting Israel. Peter Mackay thanked the country for its support to Canadian forces in Afghanistan. He was all smiles while meeting the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, but Mackay leaves Thursday after meeting forces deployed in the region.” Clip unavailable
CBC National: Neil MacDonald: "After Rabin assassination, Israel tried to prosecute extremists for their words" (10/1/2011) "… Ultimately the question is what should be done? Most other democracies have anti-gun and anti-incitement laws. Israel, after its prime minister was shot dead by a right wing fanatic, tried without much success to prosecute some of its extremists for their words." Watch clipContact CBC
CTV.ca/AP: "Iran claims its agents penetrated Israeli secret service" (10/1/2011) "Iran’s intelligence services said Monday they have arrested suspects in the assassination a year ago of a nuclear physicist in a months-long covert operation that also led them to penetrate Israel’s Mossad spy agency."
CTV.ca/AP: "Clinton: Arab world must confront Iran" (10/1/2011) "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that sanctions have slowed Iran’s efforts to develop atomic weapons and accused the country of trying to foment new conflict in the Middle East to distract attention from its nuclear ambitions."
