GAZA CITY, Gaza City -- On Islam's most important holiday, the leader of Gaza's Hamas government appealed Wednesday for a ceasefire with Israel and said his people -- battered by Israeli military strikes and international sanctions -- are greeting this year's feast with "tears in our eyes. Israel's president, Nobel Peace laureate Shimon Peres, released an unusually harsh statement opposing talks with Hamas. He called the Hamas overture "a pathetic attempt to deflect world attention away from the crimes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad." As long as rocket attacks persist, Israel will not "for even one hour" let up its attacks on Gaza militants, [Shaul Mofaz] said. But "mediation is something we can think about," he added.
In a last-ditch attempt to avert civil war in Gaza and get crushing international economic sanctions lifted, Hamas and Fatah ended nearly a year of bitter negotiations and agreed Thursday to share the spoils of a national unity government and to "respect" all agreements the Palestinian Liberation Organization has with Israel and the United Nations. The accord, which leaves Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas as the Palestinian prime minister, was greeted with hours of celebratory fireworks, gunfire and car horn honking in Gaza, where more than 70 people have died since November in factional fighting between the armed wings of Hamas and Fatah. Still, there was goodwill and optimism aplenty when Arab television stations broadcast live images late Thursday of Haniyeh and Hamas's supreme leader, Khale...
The new and unexpected spirit of co-operation on the part of the Sudanese government is almost certainly the result of one of the great political ironies of our times -- the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. China has, since 2003 when the genocide in Darfur began, blocked every UN attempt to alleviate the genocide. Sudan was left free to have its way without fear of sanctions or intervention. But as the Olympics approach, China has become increasingly conscious of its image, preening for the world, and being a sponsor of African genocide does not look good. In the absence of a Chinese veto and facing the threat of international sanctions, Khartoum agreed to accept an international military force.
PART I - MACHINERY, MECHANISMS, AND ACTORS - THE LEGAL BASIS FOR CANADA'S DOMESTIC IMPLEMENTATION OF U.N. SANCTIONS (A) The Machinery Under Article 41 of the UN Charter, the security Council may call upon Member States to apply measures not involving the use of armed force in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Urging the international community to impose tough new sanctions aimed specifically at Iran's radical Revolutionary Guard, United States Secretary of State the Hillary Clinton gave a brutal assessment of situation: "We see that the government of Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the parliament is being supplanted and that Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took advantage of the time to once more sneer at the West and everyone else with whom Iran does not agree. Iran, he proudly boasted, is now a "nuclear state," processing enriched uranium, and there is nothing the U.S. nor anyone else can do about it.
The Free Press editorially faults the Nobel committee for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama before he has achieved "tangible results" (Nobel taints prize, Oct. 10). But you ignore a recent major step of Obama toward world peace: He reversed ex-president Bush's program to build anti-Iranian missiles with missile bases in Poland, which Putin viewed as a grievous Cold War offence against Russia. Following Obama's reversal, Russia offered international co-operation for possible sanctions against Iran, after which Ahmadinejad conceded foreign inspection of Iran's newly exposed underground nuclear facility. For the present at least, the likelihood of Israel going to war against Iran by bombing its potential nuclear-bomb sites is postponed. Obama deserves credit for this. Whether ...
Howard Buchwald's column attempts to foment division in the labour movement in order to put pressure on the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). What exactly did CUPE-Ontario do? Its convention adopted a resolution calling for the division to "develop an education campaign about the apartheid nature of the Israeli state and the political and economic support of Canada for these practices" and to "Support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law including the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194. Buch...
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