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Lucky Us?

I have just today run across a report that leads me for the first time in a long time to pose the following optimistic question.  Is it possible that some important events are conspiring in our favour for a change?  By “our” in this case I mean to say the world as a whole.  It is always important I think to define who it is one means by we.

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Here is an important article on former US President Jimmy Carter condemning the use of torture in the US and other criticisms of the candidates for the US presidency originally reported in October 10, 2007. It was published in this weekend’s  Information Clearing House digest of articles.

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WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD COP? NOT I!MNN MEETS COLONIAL “FEAR MONGERING MATRIX” HEAD ON
– Goodfella Fantino fails to whack us!
MNN. May 9, 2008. Fascist state “operachniks” are constantly taking actions designed to generate a continuous state of fear. They think terror breeds obedience. MNN has received various reports warning that it is “dangerous” to go into Ontario, which is partly our ancestral Haudenosaunee Territory. We might be arrested on false charges, abducted, “disappeared” or killed in a simulated accident.

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As is always the case when Canadian Dimension is critical of Israel, pro-Israeli readers emerge to denounce the magazine’s coverage with complete obfuscation of fact in favour of blunt ideology, the most recent example being Prime Minister Steven Harper’s claims of “anti-Semitism” amongst the opposition.

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Please find below the latest conference agenda for ‘Brick by Brick: Building Labour Solidarity with Palestine’, to be held May 30 - 1 June 2008 in Toronto. This conference is aimed at labour movement activists across North America to discuss ways to strengthen our Palestine solidarity work in trade unions and workplaces.

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According to Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper”criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.” Israel apparently is the only country in the world that can torture prisoners, murder innocent civilians, kill children with impunity, assassinate political opponents, ethnically cleanse Palestinians, demolish thousands of Palestinians homes, steal land that individuals have legal title to without compensation, and have policies that are routinely condemned as racist by leading Israeli commentators including the Israeli Supreme Court, and whose human rights abuses are criticized by  Israeli human rights organizations. Many commentators
point to Israel’s many crimes and yet to criticize Israel is anti-semitic. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many other human rights organizations including Israeli human rights organizations all must be anti-Semitic. The question that must be asked is what description should be given to these attitudes towards Palestinians and what are words should be used to describe the mind set that refuses to allow for criticism of Israel no matter what it does. What country is entitled to a blank check that makes it immune to any criticism? In my opinion Harper’s statement does indicate a psychological problem that blinds him to the suffering of the Palestinians and allows the Israel compete immunity no matter what it does. It also gives some insight into why some individuals, and even political leaders in the West, have a complete disregard for Palestinian human rights, display a pathological hatred for Palestinians and an irrational subservience to Zionism.

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Not surprisingly, Canadian press was scornful of Chretien for “not acting swiftly enough” to protect the country’s national interest following 9/11. CanWest director David Asper insured that the wardrums raged in his 13 dailies and 11 television stations in eight provinces, which reach 94 per cent of English-speaking Canadians. Canada was slow to react, Asper said, because of a “latent stream of anti-Americanism that’s become part of Canadian culture.” It was, according to Asper and his mass media army, anti-American at the time not to commit the nation’s army to decimating a comparatively defenseless country in the Gulf. But contrary to popular sentiment expressed by the press in assertions like Asper’s, Canada was an “aggressive international partner” in the “war on terror” from the start, in the words of Chretien.

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