Why John Kerry is (mostly) right about settlements
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was mostly right to call out the Netanyahu government for its repeated failures and cowardice, Hart Schwartz writes.
Kerry’s speech raises troubling questions about Israel
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John Kerry’s Dec. 28 speech following the U.S. abstention on UNSC Resolution 2334 gives us reasons to be suspicious of how the self-described Israel lobby for Canada’s Jewish community reasons, Mira Sucharov writes.
Kerry and Obama make U.S. complicit in Palestinian hypocrisy
The feeling of betrayal and sense of alarm are justified on the part of Israel, which faces future fallout from Resolution 2334, writes Mordechai Ben-Dat.
Canada unlikely to follow a U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem, observers say
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump might well make good on his pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but that won’t put pressure on Canada to do the same, feels a former Canadian ambassador to Israel
Book helps readers learn the facts about Israel’s history
Daniel Gordis’s book provides a chronological, panoramic timeline of Israel
Cotler lays out just Mideast policy at JSpace AGM
The former federal justice minister laid out nine principles of a just Mideast foreign policy at JSpaceCanada’s annual general meeting Nov. 29
Blind funding of UNRWA is a mistake, so engagement is key
Ottawa’s recent announcement of $25 million in funding for the UN Refugee and Works Agency has reignited our chief concern pertaining to Israeli security
Prof hopes Trump will send message to Palestinians
Give Israel the green light to do what it has to do to make it clear to the Palestinians that their dream of eradicating the State of Israel will fail
Where is the outcry over Aleppo?
The world’s indifference to the ongoing slaughter of Syrians – in particular, the Russian-Assad brutal bombing in Aleppo – is stunning
The problem with hasbarah
In the war of public opinion, does the classic hasbarah approach still work, or is it time for the Jewish state to rethink its messaging
