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Letter: Quebecers don’t want to take sides in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Re: “Quebec nationalists should support Israel, not Hamas” (Opinion, Aug. 8) Gil Troy is quite right that Quebecers tend to be pro-Palestinian, but to extend that to an unconditional support for Hamas...
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Letter: Pro-Palestinian protesters should be telling Hamas to stop launching...
Re: “Thousands march in peaceful demo in support of Palestinians” (Gazette, Aug. 11) I see that there was another march in support of Palestinians in Gaza. I am neither Palestinian nor Israeli,...
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Letter: Hypocrisy and human rights
The news out of Iraq is more than horrific; there are almost no words to explain how I feel. Where is the international community? In Quebec, we all marched against the values charter — Catholic,...
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Letter: Western support for dictatorial regimes in the Middle East undermines...
Re: “Western countries can’t fix the Mideast” (Your Views, Sept. 13) How true! So long as the Western governments lend a highly biased and one-sided support to the dictatorial regimes of the Middle...
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Opinion: Israeli election results seem destined to be muddled
Two videos frame the March 17 Israeli elections. The first, released by the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, sets up Netanyahu as a kindergarten teacher, casting his rivals as...
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Opinion: Jewish voters, Stephen Harper and Mount Royal riding
We returned from vacation after the call for Canada’s October federal election. Like many, I wasn’t ready to engage. Yet, after seeing a slew of the Conservative Party’s Harper-Libman campaign signs...
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Letter: On Montreal Jews and identity politics
Re: “I refuse to become a one-issue voter” (Opinion, Aug. 22) There’s an old joke that if you have two Jews, you get three opinions. This is certainly true about the one issue that the Conservatives...
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Boycotts against Israel have no place on university campuses, B'nai Brith says
Over the past two years, undergraduate students at McGill University twice defeated a boycott and sanctions motion against Israel at their annual assembly. The motion should have been laid to rest, but...
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Protesters hurl insults outside World Social Forum in Montreal
Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters stood on either side of a line of Montreal police officers and hurled insults at one another Wednesday, blocks away from events taking place at the World Social...
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Former Israeli President Shimon Peres dead at 93
Shimon Peres, an Israeli statesman who helped build his country into a nuclear-armed regional military power, shared a Nobel Peace Prize for laying out a short-lived framework for peace with the...
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