http://www.tolerance.ca/Rubrique.aspx?ID=11&L=en Points of view Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:00:14 -0500 2010 Tolerance.ca en-ca http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=76186&L=en by Claire Tremblay The Alternative Report issued in response to the Federal government's report on women's progress in Canada 15 years after the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a refreshing counterpoint to the Harper government's manipulation of the facts.   Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=73669&L=en Belleville is a small city in southern Ontario with a high rate of unemployment. Young women go to Belleville to sell their bodies just as women desperate for livelihood have done for centuries during hard times. It's the only way they see to survive. The market for prostitutes in Belleville is huge with the Trenton Air Base just 20 minutes away.   Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=71747&L=en By Peggy Shapiro In the midst of the tragedy and chaos in the Haitian capital, Israeli doctors, part of IsraAID -F.I.R.S.T. (the Israel Forum for International Aid), delivered a healthy baby boy in an IDF field hospital. When the baby's grateful mother, Gubilande Jean Michel saw her newborn son, alive and well, she named him Israel in gratitude to the people and nation who brought her this blessing.   Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=64028&L=en In all the understandable attention given to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this week, there is a risk that another important anniversary will be overlooked. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Kofi Annan http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=63682&L=en They survive without electricity, heating, without social assistance, are subjected to serious discrimination, are at constant risk of camp clearances and racial violence, and now they have been hit by swine ‘flu, but no social or medical assistance has been planned for them. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=60233&L=en By Riki Ellison, President and Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) On October 6, 2009, Members of the United States Senate passed, with overwhelming support, an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, directing Lt. General Patrick O'Reilly, Director of the Missile Defense Agency, to provide options by February 1st next year to deploy an additional Ground-Based Interceptor site in Europe or the United States to provide defense for our nation against future long-range missiles from Iran. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=59534&L=en By Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) WASHINGTON - A momentous week of unveiling Iran's second nuclear site, which confirmed their intention to disperse and protect non-civilian nuclear development, coupled with their ballistic missile launches over the weekend from 90 miles to 1,200 miles requires close examination of President Obama's new direction of our nation's missile defense. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=58096&L=en by Susan Sarandon, Actress, activist and mother  There is nothing more powerful than hearing someone speak from their heart. That is why I was so moved by Barbara Lee's passionate speech on the floor of Congress September 14, 2001, eight years ago this week. She was the only member of Congress, in both the House and Senate, to have the courage to vote no against authorizing war in Afghanistan. Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=53484&L=en Just like President Eduardo Frei Montalva passed to history as the Chilean Kerensky for paving the road to socialist Allende, president Obama is at risk of passing to history as the Americas' Kerensky if he pushes Honduras into the Chavist abyss. Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Armando Valladares http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=46124&L=en The Middle East and the Muslim world are waiting anxiously for President Obama's address in Cairo to this region and to the Islamic world. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Uri Savir http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=41648&L=en We've all watched the cutting of foreign news budgets for so long that we've become almost numb to it. Another bureau cut here, another three correspondent posts dropped there -- drip, drip, drip -- the dwindling capacity of overseas news gathering is constant background noise. Or ever-increasing silence, perhaps. But now we've come to two situations that show us what the world will be like when there are no foreign correspondents left. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Andrew Stroehlein http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=41522&L=en By Rabbi Abraham Cooper April 22, 2009 (UN Headquarters - Geneva, Switzerland) - In 1938, in Evian, on the French side of Lake Geneva, the world’s democracies convened a meeting to discuss the “Jewish Problem”. Turns out no one wanted Europe’s Jews. By 1945, 6 million Jews were dead, systematically murdered by the Nazi’s Final Solution. Hitler solved his problem. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=41417&L=en The G20 Conference held in London in April 2009 was a milestone in the history of international relations. Not only did it change some economic doctrines towards capitalism with much greater government involvement, but it also created a change in the relations between the important powers in the world. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Uri Savir http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=41202&L=en The special ingredient of Palestinian nationalism that really does set it apart from, say, Jordanian nationalism, or that of Syria or Egypt, is its basis in antagonism to Israel and its usurpation of Jewish symbols, history, and identity. Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Ruth, R. Wisse http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=39363&L=en By Bruce Campbell As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to London for the G-20 leaders’ meeting on the global economic crisis, he will undoubtedly tell other leaders that Canada is well positioned to manage the crisis domestically and provide advice on the international effort. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=38727&L=en I shall never forget the moment Anwar Sadat, the late President of Egypt, came down the stairs of an Egyptian airplane in Israel. As I stood there, at Ben-Gurion aiport, I could not believe my eyes. The moment was a dream coming true. President Sadat had just made the most courageous decision in the Middle East's modern history. In his one hour flight he crossed decades of hostility, hatred, war and, bloodshed in order to extend his hand to the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Israeli people. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Uri Savir http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=36854&L=en The US administration under President Obama, working through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, understands the equation that exists in the Mid-East region. Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Uri Savir http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=35771&L=en By Bruce Campbell, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives When President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper meet this Thursday, February 19, 2009, the growing economic crisis will be the main point of discussion. And Harper could quickly find himself in a position he doesn’t like to be in: on the defensive. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=34801&L=en The Italian institutions have approved with an emergency decree the presence of anti-Roma and anti-foreigner patrols, the filing of the homeless and ghetto-camps. The “security package” encourages doctors to report “illegal” immigrants. In the meantime ten Tunisian refugees awaiting deportation have attempted suicide on Lampedusa. EveryOne Group: “The “Padane” patrols are the equivalent of the Blackshirts whose aim is racial persecution. Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=31353&L=en By Avishai Ehrlich The present conflagration in Gaza is perniciously criminal because it was foreseen and could have been averted. The most enraging aspect about it is its wanton wastefulness and the cynicism of both leaderships. Had the two sides agreed to negotiate – something they will inevitably have to do in the wake of this slaughter - the conflagration could have been avoided. Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=25896&L=en Postville, a quiet town of 1500 in rural Iowa was the scene of an interesting experiment in Jewish-American life. Agriprocessors, the largest of America’s glatt kosher meat packers established their biggest slaughterhouse there. Imagine the black hat managers and shochets (kosher slaughterers) rubbing shoulders with the farmers and small town folks and bringing in immigrant laborers to do the dirtier jobs. It was a new type of inter-cultural experiment in a rather unlikely setting. Indeed it provided the subject matter for Prof. Stephen Bloom’s book: Postville: A Clash of Culture in Heartland America. But this tale of culture clash between Lubavitchers and rural Iowans has been superseded by a far more important conflict. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Stephen Scheinberg http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=25894&L=en Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has joined ranks with Peace Now. In a rather startling interview, for Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year, Olmert dared to state what no other Prime Minister has ever said, that a far reaching accord with the Palestinians is an absolute necessity for Israel. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Stephen Scheinberg http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=25893&L=en At the end of September a pipe bomb exploded outside the home of Peace Now activist and leading scholar Prof. Zeev Sternhell. He was, fortunately, only lightly wounded but the bombing has created fears that the radical wing of the settler movement is now moving to try to silence its critics in Israel. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Stephen Scheinberg http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=23686&L=en Israel’s High Court has rightly been hailed as a beacon of justice in the Middle East. However the court and the state have recently been in conflict over two important matters, first the routing of the fence or security barrier and second illegal settlement construction. Israel is now at a turning point and in the balance is whether the law or the movement for a greater Israel carries more weight. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Stephen Scheinberg http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=23684&L=en As a dual citizen of the United States and Canada I must decide how I will vote in two elections. I must admit that Israel is not high on my list of concerns for several reasons. My primary loyalty is as a citizen of the country I am voting in, to choose the best candidates for the general welfare of my two countries. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Points of view Stephen Scheinberg