Eight days later
The return of the status quo in the Middle East?
Tag Archives: Middle East
A pointless exercise
Hypothetically, were people of differing opinions to sit down over hummus and falafel and have some kind of miniature Oslo process, it would be an utterly pointless exercise.
Libya fights for freedom: Will Gadhafi go?
The revolutionary spirit spreading throughout the Arab world has spread to Libya. Unfortunately, unlike the situation in Egypt and Tunisia, where the dictatorships fell with relative swiftness, Moammar Gadhafi has chosen the path of outright violence in order to hold onto power. The bloodshed that has followed is a tragic example of a government attempting [...]
A new type of Egyptian
gypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, has kept the country under Emergency Law for the entire duration of his 30-year so-called “democratic” rule. This law suspends constitutional rights, allows censorship and gives police the authority to imprison people without a trial. Under emergency rule, it is also illegal to engage in street protests, which make what is [...]
The cradle of civilization in chaos
once lived in Egypt: the land of the pharaohs, the cradle of civilization, the most prosperous and most beautiful place in the world; a land where the Nile cuts through the desert like a cool breeze on a dry and hot day. The palms surrounding grew in the nutrient-rich black soil. The locals would have [...]
The Middle Eastern “domino effect”
In the past few weeks, the world has been carefully following of the revolutionary wave that has been sweeping across the Middle East. From the “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia to the Egyptian protests, unrest in the Arab world is promising nothing short of drastic changes to come. What occurred in Tunisia as a result of [...]
Promoting peace?
The former British Member of Parliament and supposed anti-war activist George Galloway embarked on a cross Canada tour Nov. 16, with a stop planned in Winnipeg Nov. 26. This tour is being organized by Palestinian solidarity campaigns across Canada. While many of these organizations sponsoring Galloway’s tour claim to be promoting peace, I fail to [...]
Letters to the Editor – September 15, 2010
In the last issue of the Manitoban, two letters to the editor appeared which contained false and defamatory statements against me. For space considerations, I will only address the parts of these letters which contain these personal accusations. The first, by Rev. Rudy Fidel, claimed that I “would like to make Israel Free of Jews [...]
Letters to the Editor – September 8, 2010
In the summers of 2004 and 2007 I had the pleasure of traveling to the land of Israel where my father grew up and has family there. On my first trip there I did not know what to expect as I did not grow up in the Jewish community and my mother was not born [...]