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At least 300,000 essentially defenseless Palestinians were evicted from their homes and properties by Jewish forces and forced to abandon their other assets and personal possessions during the just over five months between passage of the UN General Assembly's Partition Plan (Resolution 181, 29 November 1947) and the declaration of the state of Israel on 14 May 1948, effective May 15. (Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988, p. 145) This was accomplished through force of arms, intimidation and acts of terror, including rape and several massacres.
One of the things that bothers me most about the Harper government is its hypocrisy.
We are going to talk today about Stephen Harper and his abuse of Parliament, but kindly bear with me for a moment.
Stephen Harper is not an easy read.
They called it the "Phoney War" - or, in German, "der Sitzkrieg" (the "sitting war") - that period between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the beginning of the Battle of France in the spring of 1940. The two sides dug in and nothing much happened, on the land in Europe at least.
Karlheinz Schreiber, the German-Canadian arms merchant and lobbyist at the heart of the Airbus Affair, was sentenced last week in Augsburg, Germany, to eight years in prison for income tax evasion.
Those two old warriors, Jean Chrétien and Ed Broadbent, have been talking.
Start with the New Democratic Party. Its “orange surge” of recent days — leading to fevered speculation that it would supplant the Bloc Québécois as number 1 in Quebec and the Liberals as number 2 in Ottawa — has been the most arresting development in an otherwise listless election campaign.
It was quite a night! The new Parliament is going to be a very different place.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper promises he will use his new majority to govern on behalf of all Canadians, not just the 40 per cent who voted for him. Assuming he intends to do what he says, what could he do to reassure the 60 per cent who supported candidates and parties on the left of the Tories?
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