Thu - March 20, 2008
Arrest Ahmadinejad
Irwin
Cotler is calling for the arrest
and trial of Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, for incitement to genocide. Cotler is a former Canadian Minister of
Justice and the current human rights critic for the Liberal Party. There is
precedent, he said, in the conviction of several Rwandans, including a former
prime minister, on such charges by an international court.
Posted at 12:56 PM Read More
Mon - October 15, 2007
Akbar Atri and Matthias Küntzel
Iranian democracy activists are debating
taking American money.
Posted at 12:01 PM Read More
Tue - October 2, 2007
A Jihad for Love
Spent a few days last week visiting friends in
Toronto, including Max and
Rob. I timed
the trip to avoid the surge of tourists associated with the Toronto Film
Festival, a decision I now regret. I discovered this morning there was a film
premiere I would gladly have waited in line for several hours to attend. This
was by way of the President of Iran and the Wall Street Journal.
Posted at 09:12 AM Read More
Tue - August 14, 2007
They only paid for the weekend
Despite boasting of many donations from Windsor's
Lebanese community the contract for the controversial pro-Hezbollah billboard
ran out yesterday. So claims Hussein
Dabaja, who says the poster's message will be "driven home today, when
Nasrallah makes a speech in Beirut honouring Hezbollah's 'victory' against the
Israeli occupation."
Posted at 06:43 PM Read More
Mon - August 13, 2007
Hezbollah billboard taken down
The Windsor billboard
featuring the leader of Hezbollah was taken down this morning, according to
local CBC radio news.
Posted at 08:47 AM Read More
Sun - August 12, 2007
Nasrallah shows his face in Windsor
A billboard featuring the face of Hezbollah
leader Hassan Nasrallah has aroused both outrage and pride in Windsor,
Ontario.
Posted at 10:50 AM Read More
Sun - May 6, 2007
The Winograd Report
Political parties in the democracies have
devolved to a single competency, running election campaigns. Governing, not so
much.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Israel, where the ineptitude of the current coalition, and its recent predecessors, has shocked the nation. The first report of the Winograd Commission, on last summer's war in Lebanon, is devastating.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Israel, where the ineptitude of the current coalition, and its recent predecessors, has shocked the nation. The first report of the Winograd Commission, on last summer's war in Lebanon, is devastating.
Posted at 05:27 PM Read More
Tue - November 21, 2006
Lebanese Cabinet Minister Assassinated
Pierre Gemayel
Jr., a member of the anti-Syrian coalition in the Lebanese parliament,
was shot and
killed this morning in Beirut. He was serving in the government as the
minister for industry.
Gemayel's uncle, Bashir Gemayel, was assassinated in 1982 by a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, shortly before he was to take office as the President of Lebanon.
The Lebanese government has been in the process of setting up a UN mandated inquiry into the assasination last year of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, in which Syria has been implicated.
Syrian allies in parliament, led by Hezbollah, attempted unsuccessfully to kill the inquiry by bringing down the government with the resignations earlier this month of six pro Syrian cabinet ministers.
Gemayel's uncle, Bashir Gemayel, was assassinated in 1982 by a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, shortly before he was to take office as the President of Lebanon.
The Lebanese government has been in the process of setting up a UN mandated inquiry into the assasination last year of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, in which Syria has been implicated.
Syrian allies in parliament, led by Hezbollah, attempted unsuccessfully to kill the inquiry by bringing down the government with the resignations earlier this month of six pro Syrian cabinet ministers.
Posted at 12:55 PM Read More
Thu - November 16, 2006
Peace Activists celebrate Terrorist Birthday Party
The Windsor Peace Coalition is promoting a
meeting "on the 74th anniversary" of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
I read about it on the OPIRG Community Calendar and at their own website. (Update: The listing has since been removed from the OPIRG calendar and the matter referred to their board of directors.) The meeting takes place at the University of Windsor next Friday, Nov. 24. The subject of discussion will be "the Middle East after August 14, 2006.″
I'd never heard of the Syrian organization until a few hours ago, when Will posted at the Popinjays about the infamous George Galloway coming to Canada this weekend. Saddam Hussein's biggest admirer is going to celebrate the SSNP anniversary by speaking to party members and fellow travelers on campuses in Montreal and Ottawa.
An article in the Atlantic Monthly (paid sub.) called the SSNP the world's oldest terrorist organization. They specialize in assassinations and suicide bombing. According to Wikipedia the organization has its roots in the fascist movements of the 1930s.
I read about it on the OPIRG Community Calendar and at their own website. (Update: The listing has since been removed from the OPIRG calendar and the matter referred to their board of directors.) The meeting takes place at the University of Windsor next Friday, Nov. 24. The subject of discussion will be "the Middle East after August 14, 2006.″
I'd never heard of the Syrian organization until a few hours ago, when Will posted at the Popinjays about the infamous George Galloway coming to Canada this weekend. Saddam Hussein's biggest admirer is going to celebrate the SSNP anniversary by speaking to party members and fellow travelers on campuses in Montreal and Ottawa.
An article in the Atlantic Monthly (paid sub.) called the SSNP the world's oldest terrorist organization. They specialize in assassinations and suicide bombing. According to Wikipedia the organization has its roots in the fascist movements of the 1930s.
Posted at 04:38 PM Read More
Fri - October 6, 2006
Soccer Uncle (and Aristotelian Epistemology)
Zonk, Dan and I made it to the Lederman lecture
last night, a few minutes late. Zonk couldn't leave the bookstore until 7. If
Dan hadn't called to wake me from my power nap we might not have made it at
all.
Posted at 04:19 PM Read More
Fri - August 18, 2006
Pyrrhic victory?
The LA
Times reports that the first surveys of the destruction in Lebanon
describe the Israeli bombing campaign, despite its focus on Hezbollah controlled
neighbourhoods, as more devastating than the 15 year long civil war that ended
in 1990.
Posted at 02:00 PM Read More
Tue - August 15, 2006
Pacifism (pseudo vs real)
Terry continues to fight the good fight against
the pseudo
pacifists who dominate the Canadian left. Norm Geras examines the same
phenomena within the Jewish
and Israeli
left wing movements. Which, by way of a talkback to that last
item, took me back to Orwell:
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one.
Posted at 01:04 PM Read More
Sun - August 13, 2006
Wimmin at War
Whatever happened to the women
of Greenham Common, who now march with the supporters of
Hezbollah?
Posted at 06:39 PM Read More
Sun - July 16, 2006
Hezbollah
Scribbles summed it up in two
words. My first reactions were also fear and dismay.
Next I admitted to myself that I don't know enough to understand why this war is happening now. I want to see the defeat of Hezbollah, but I don't know whether Israel's attack on Lebanon can achieve that. Or whether the confrontation was inevitable and best done sooner rather than later.
Next I admitted to myself that I don't know enough to understand why this war is happening now. I want to see the defeat of Hezbollah, but I don't know whether Israel's attack on Lebanon can achieve that. Or whether the confrontation was inevitable and best done sooner rather than later.
Posted at 04:56 PM Read More
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