INUIT Look closely at the map of Northern Canada. Yes it is Canada as you are aware, but without certain people and I refer of course to the Inuit, I think the land in the North might have been taken away from us. To retain title, citizens have to live there. They lived there, as forbidding Continue Reading
This article is adapted from a speech to the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research. *** Last autumn was the Balfour Declaration’s hundredth birthday. This month marks a hundred years since Britain’s General Allenby completed his World War I conquest of Palestine and Syria. These centenaries relate to the most important–the most basic–argument Continue Reading
The number of electoral democracies increased from the early 70`s to the first ten years of the present century from about 35 to more than 110. The output throughout the world of goods and services quadrupled. The proportion of people in extreme poverty dropped from 42% in 1993 to 18% in 2008. But not all Continue Reading
The victory of the Jews in 1948 who lived in the area called Palestine (so named by the Romans in 70 C.E.) to form the land of Israel was completely unexpected, especially by the Arabs. After all the world of European countries and the Arab world in the middle east had persecuted and dominated this small religious group Continue Reading
I resent the fact that North-American human rights organization imply that racism is more prominent in Canada and the United States. If it is true, and I am not sure that it is, I would credit it to the fact that there are no other countries in the world that allow immigrants of all religions, Continue Reading
Article by Golda Meir former P.M. of Israel in the New York Times January 14,1976. To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership: for this reason I should like to clarify my position in regard to the Palestinian issue. I have been charged with being rigidly insensitive to the question of Palestinian Arabs. Continue Reading