Diefenbaker in the Holy Land
ohn Diefenbaker treasured his contacts with the great men of his time. His boyhood meeting J with Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Saskatoon and his encounter with “the Old Man” — Sir Winston
Begin with a Scenario
For better or for worse, the visit of Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to Canada in November 1978 is remembered best for the visitor’s intervention in Canadian politics. In a speech in Toronto after his official business had been concluded, Begin…
Letters // Lettres
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Cooper’s Snoopers and Other Follies
There is a big disappointment, for which you should prepare yourself, when you get to page 164 of this little book: it ends. And it ends far too soon. To be fair, the author has subtitled it “Fragments of a Life” and…
Trading Places
Hello from Tel Aviv. I am here for the next 5 weeks and a bit, on temporary duty, filling the gap between the departure of the former trade program manager and the arrival of the new one. Having such exposure to the…
Guerre et paix au Moyen-orient et en Afrique / War and Peace in the Middle East and Africa
Le sous-ministre adjoint consulte sa montre. Il attend toujours les nouvelles du Haut Commissariat à Kenya sur les soeurs disparues au Rwanda. Il est quatorze trente dans la plupart des postes de sa région. Les priorités canadiennes dans la région sont au…
The People of Nowhere
Danny Rubinstein’s recently-published The People of Nowhere will be a valuable source of information and analysis on a contentious subject. Books on the Middle East tend to have strong emotional content reflecting their authors’ political convictions. It is refreshing that Rubinstein has…
The Domestic Battleground: Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
In The Domestic Battleground, David Taras and David Goldberg set out to awaken “the reader to the high stakes that Canadians have in the Middle East conflict and to the importance of the domestic battleground in influencing the policies Canada will pursue”.…
No Balm in Gilead: A Personal Retrospective of Mandate Days in Palestine
In early 1948, Sylva M. Gelber left the Palestine she had come to as a young woman sixteen years before. Her dream of participating in the building of the Jewish National Home had been shattered by the gunfire and bomb explosions of…
Letters // Correspondance
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