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| Boycott Israel, demonize Jews, resist medical progress | Dave Gordon
Fri, 26 February 2010
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The sixth annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” is taking place next
week on campuses in Toronto and in dozens of cities worldwide. If it’s
anything akin to previous years, it will be replete with the
much-anticipated demonizing and delegitimizing of Israel. Much
discussion will surround the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement
with an aim to cripple Israel economically.
Coincidentally, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently announced
that he will travel to Israel in May with a consortium of business
leaders....
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| Greenbelt or foodbelt - axe it | Dave Gordon
Thu, 25 February 2010
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You can’t dislike a foodbelt or greenbelt can you?
If you do, are you then against food or the greening of our community?
There are councillors who think setting aside 2,000 hectares of Markham, Ontario
land for farming purposes, by municipal government fiat, will assist in environmental sustainability.
Carving homes or other real estate into farmland is irreversible, they say....
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| Ex-Iranian naval officer speaks out: An interview with Mano Bakh | Dave Gordon
Sat, 16 January 2010
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Escaping Islam: The Evil Might Not Be Realized Until It’s Too LateAuthorHouse Publishing276 PagesHalf
autobiography, half historical commentary, Escaping Islam is the true
story of Mano Bakh, a Muslim Iranian, who had been a high-ranking
officer in Iran’s Imperial Navy. In 1979, during the Islamic
revolution, and fearing for his life, he miraculously escaped to the
United States....
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| What's behind the prorogue? | Dave Gordon
Mon, 4 January 2010
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Is Prime Minister Stephen Harper once again playing Parliamentary games? Or are the only games happening in Vancouver next month?Last year, he used proroguing to avert a confidence vote that threatened to dissolve the government elected six weeks earlier.It
seems few are clear exactly why he’s proroguing. There are a growing number of Facebook sites and an outpouring of angry letters to the media to show disapproval....
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| Jimmy Carter's empty apology | Dave Gordon
Fri, 1 January 2010
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It initially read like a
Christmastime edition of the satirical newspaper, The Onion. Jimmy Carter,
apologizing to Jews for his slamming of Israel?
There were two major errors with
this Carter apology stunt. The first, was calling it an apology. The second,
was sending it only to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, who fancy themselves the hub for global Jewish news....
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| Hudak tells local audience how he'd improve economy | Dave Gordon
Fri, 27 November 2009
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Tim Hudak
roused a crowd of 700 supporters at Le Parc in Richmond Hill Wednesday
night, touting his ideas for a stronger Ontario and admonishing the
McGuinty government for what he believes were key errors that have spun
the province further into a fiscal downturn.It was Mr. Hudak's first
Leader's Dinner since becoming PC Party leader about five months ago.
Organizers say that it doubled last year's attendance.He
described his middle-class upbringing in the border town of Fort Erie,
learning from his Czech-born grandparents' immigrant values....
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| Liberals, Jews, and ten percenters | Dave Gordon
Tue, 24 November 2009
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A friend of mine once told me, “Of
course I vote Liberal. I’m Jewish!” This seems to be a reflexive refrain from
most Jews in Canada.
The explanation is an entirely different essay, but lately, there appears to be
a shift in political allegiance with the Jewish vote.
Ask those who have switched their
vote, and it’s because the Conservative Party of Canada has been a steadfast
friend of Israel and the Jewish people, compared to the Liberal Party record.
The issue came to the fore recently
when the Conservatives mailed out a series of ‘ten percenters’ – partisan
leaflets that promoted their accomplishments....
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| Forgiveness in genocide's aftermath (book reviews) | Dave Gordon
Mon, 16 March 2009
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The slaughter lasted for 100 days in the spring of 1994. Some 800,000
Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered — neighbours, friends,
classmates.
Lay Germans often said they did not know what took place in the Nazi
death camps. Certainly, though, all Rwandans knew about the genocide
occurring in front of them. As a nation, they either swung machetes —
one by one, face to face, slashing and severing — or they were victims.
As We Forgive contains 21 chapters of various vignettes, outlining in
rich detail the experiences of ordinary Rwandans during the genocide.
Though the book at times is overburdened with repetition, and
overwhelming verbosity, it does try to tackle a penetrating moral
question....
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| Theft at Auschwitz reverberates for local Jews | Dave Gordon
Fri, 18 December 2009
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Holocaust survivors and Jewish educators were aghast upon hearing
Friday of the theft of the Nazis' infamous iron sign over the entrance
of Auschwitz, in Poland.Those entering the still-standing death camp
saw above their heads the 5-meter-long message "Arbeit Macht Frei" -
German for "Work Sets You Free". For Peninah Zilberman, a Holocaust educator, the news hit personally."My
mother and my family walked through there [during the Holocaust], as
well, myself with many groups of students and survivors....
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