Israel

JOHNSON – Perspective is everything when looking at Israel and Gaza

November 23, 2023 // 0 Comments

Let’s look at why this conflict, more than any other, seems to be the one that everyone cares about in a world of localized wars and armed conflicts OVER THE YEARS and more [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Any talk of who’s to blame for Gaza must include Oct. 7

November 14, 2023 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WASN’T SURPRISED at some of the reaction to my Remembrance Day column on my recent visit to Auschwitz and the current disturbing rise in [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Universities back away from free speech in Israel conflict

October 26, 2023 // 3 Comments

UNIVERSITIES PROMOTE THEMSELVES as bastions of free speech. But that claim is being tested with comments made by student unions in support of Palestine. Politicians and union [Continue]

EDITORIAL – CBC won’t say so, but what Hamas did in Israel was terrorism

October 19, 2023 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE FOG OF WAR obscures fact and fiction. A hospital is bombed. Was it deliberate, a mistake, or a self-inflicted tragedy? The very words we [Continue]

PETERS – No end in sight to the horrific cycle of killing in the Middle East

October 14, 2023 // 1 Comment

BACK IN MY UNIVERSITY YEARS, I had a professor who had returned to teach in Canada after spending years in Israel and the West Bank, working for a relief organization. I [Continue]