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,...
Mark your calendars for March 11 at 3pm—Dr. Jonathan Rynhold, specialist in Israeli diplomacy, US-Israel relations, and Middle East-Far East relations, is flying in from Bar-Ilan University in Israel to speak to Glendon about recent events. Come in for great discussion and a...
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...
In the entirety of its complexity, the Middle East finds itself at the centre of the world’s attention. It is discouraging to see the conversation surrounding the topic here on campus become reduced to such a meaningless perpetuation of falsities, simply stemming from a lack...
Going strong for nearly two years now, the changes wrought by the Arab Spring on the Middle East and beyond continue to reshape the region’s geopolitical landscape in wholly unpredictable ways. Just over a year ago, nobody could have predicted that Arab autocrats in Tunisia,...
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...
Throughout the corridors of power, there is a palpable sense of concern that has been growing to a feverish pitch after world leaders concluded their meetings and addresses to the UN General Assembly last week. The images of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President...
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...
Recent elections supervised by the military-dominated government have failed to deliver fundamental democratic reforms to Egypt’s political system. The long-awaited parliamentary elections of November 2011 to January 2012 disproportionately favoured Islamist political...
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