Daily Archives: November 18, 2005

Canada urged to help resolve Palestinian refugee debate

Canada is uniquely positioned to change the terms of debate about Palestinian refugees and push for their resettlement, an Israeli researcher says. As the second-largest funder of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...

UNRWA: A Roadblock to Peace?

Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that are plaguing the Palestinian Territories....

Amir Peretz: Sign of a Social Revolution in Israel?

922 words PERETZ ASTONISHES By David Bedein THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION The election of an Israeli Moroccan union leader, MK Amir Peretz as the new chairman of the Israel Labor Party, in which he ousted veteran Israeli Deputy...

Homeless in the homeland

Calling Ehud Zinar intense is like calling the Negev dry. Whippet-thin and darkly energetic, Zinar is a man on a mission, touring North America, speaking to community leaders, clergy and school children about his former...