For Canada, jumping aboard the sinking American ship in the Middle East is shortsighted. Perhaps worst of all, though, it runs roughshod over what many Canadians perceive to be our collective interest. 87% of respondents polled by the CBC with regards to the Palestinian...
Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part mini-series. Please stay tuned for the conclusion to this article which will be published on FreedomWritersCA on April 1. What do the United States, Canada, the Czech Republic, Panama, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau,...
2013 will be an auspicious year for elections in the Middle East. On Tuesday, January 22, Israelis head to the polls in a snap parliamentary election to in all likelihood re-elect Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, with the only real change being the composition of his ruling...
The Syrian uprising-turned-civil war is a human tragedy of epic proportions. A preliminary statistical analysis carried out by the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has just come up with a list of 59,648 victims it has good reason to believe...
Something is rotten in the state of Iran, far, far away from Denmark; something so twisted is going on in the Islamic Republic that Shakespeare himself would find writing a play on the subject to be tumultuous indeed . While the nation no longer has a wily monarch to keep its...
Operation Pillar of Defence (November 2012) represents the most serious military confrontation between Israel and its Arab neighbours since Operation Cast Lead (December 2008 – January 2009). Coincidentally, just like Cast Lead, Pillar of Defence also took place in the Gaza...
Author's Note: This is the third and final part of a mini-series on the Iranian nuclear program. Part one discussed contemporary U.S.-Iranian relations and steps that the U.S. has taken in attempt to halt the Iranian nuclear program. Part two focused on Iran’s national...
Author's Note: This is the second post of a three-part mini-series. Part one gives a background of the Iran-West nuclear conundrum, while part three will situate the Iranian nuclear program within the scope of current international relations. Most discussions on the Iranian...
The Republic of Turkey is by all accounts a rising national power. Internationally, Turkey is well regarded as a founding member and active participant in several international organizations: NATO in 1949, OECD in 1961 and G20 in 1999. Regionally, Turkey had until very...
What has become of the Arab-Israeli peace process? Recent years have seen little to no progress, though several opportunities have presented themselves. The Annapolis Summit in 2007 formally established the two-state solution, to which both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
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