Spain’s Foreign Minister, Manuel Albares hosted a meeting of some 20 European and Arab States in Madrid to discuss measures to ensure humanitarian aid enters Gaza “massively” and “neutrally”. Unfortunately Canada was missing… Read more.
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Canada hosted the G7 summit (then G8) in Kananaskis in 2002. This year Prime Minister Carney will be the host again on June 15-17. The host leader sets the agenda. The Ottawa Forum on Israel/Palestine (OFIP) suggests that Prime Minister Carney should put Gaza on the table. Read the OFIP open letter to the Prime Minister.
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Over 70 percent of an area Israel calls “Canada Park” was destroyed by a wildfire which raged across central Israel on May 1. The “park” is located on the ruins of three Palestinian villages which were ethnically cleansed in 1967 and later physically destroyed. Read more.
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Issa Amro (left) is a Palestinian human rights activist from Hebron in the West Bank. Jeff Halper (right) a Jewish Israeli who lives in Jerusalem. “My nomination of Amro and Halper is a call to action for the international community,” said Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa who sponsored the nomination. Read more.
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Canada Talks Israel/Palestine 