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 non-member observer status vote declared that Canada should not vote against the Palestinian Authority resolution ... Read More »
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 have been killed in the 20-month period from March 15, 2011 to November 30, ... Read More »
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 Strip and also pitted Israel’s Defence Forces against militant Palestinian factions led by Hamas and their armed wing, ... Read More »
In the discourse of international politics, it is rarely warranted to label a situation a kerfuffle. Syria is definitely one such kerfuffle. The international community has failed to broker a solution to what has now become more than a year-long conflict in which the government of Bashar al-Assad is fighting for its very survival against an opposition movement loosely ... Read More »
What is Palestinian reconciliation and why is it important? This domestic Palestinian political issue, like many things Palestinian, has far-reaching ramifications for the Arab World and the greater Middle East. The Palestinian national movement has been divided for decades between left-wing secular nationalists like Fatah (now led by Mahmoud Abbas but previously led by the iconic Yasser Arafat) and ... Read More »
In recent weeks, tensions between Iran and regional countries in the Middle East have been growing to a feverish pitch as a covert war between Tehran and Western powers seems to be increasingly spilling into the open. With Syria on the precipice of all-out civil war, Tehran is in grave danger of losing its only Arab ally in the ... Read More »
After a long and tense summer in the Middle East, the rumour mill continues to spin regarding the prospects of a Palestinian membership bid at the United Nations in September. The Palestinian side estimates that they will be able to lobby approximately 160 member states of the UN to vote in favour of their membership, while the Israeli side also ... Read More »
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