This simple but powerful artistic collage by the Palestinian photographer Belal Khalel, couldn't sum up better how I feel about what is going on in Gaza. The ceasefire broken, whole neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, hundreds of thousands with no place to call home. More than 2,000 dead. More than ten thousand
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Montreal Simon: The Con War on the Wounded Children of Gaza (Continued)
The ceasefire is holding. The kids are playing again on the beach where four of their friends were killed while playing soccer, by shells from an Israeli gunboat.But thousands of Palestinian children have been wounded… The situation in the hospitals is so desperate they can't treat them in Gaza.“Palestinian health
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Gaza Summer and the Cruelty of Stephen Harper
On a warm Sunday afternoon, in the leafy lanes of Ward's Island, with the last flowers of the summer in full bloom, it should have been possible to forget about the horror of Gaza.At least for a few hours. Especially now that another shaky truce has been announced. But in this Gaza
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Stephen Harper Is Not A Real Friend of Israel
He likes to pose as Israel's best friend. Or as Benjamin Netanyahu's best buddy. And would have us believe that supporting the right-wing Netanyahu regime is the best way to support Israel.When it is not, for as Tony Burman points out, Harper's buddy Benny may be the only winner of the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Regime’s War on the Wounded Children of Gaza
The other day I told you about a tiny candle of decency in the darkness that is Gaza.Ontario's plan to bring wounded children to be treated in the province's hospitals. The Ontario government is willing to provide medical care to 100 injured children from Gaza, it said Tuesday – several days after
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Latest Gaza Horror and Israel’s War on the Media
When I read stories like this one. A deadly attack on a school in the city of Rafah in the south of Gaza has been denounced as a "moral outrage" and "criminal act" by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.At least seven people were killed and dozens more wounded after
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Scotland, Gaza, and the Shameful Silence of So Many Canadians
I spent my last day in Scotland in this beautiful highland forest with Sébastien and a group of friends, taking turns leaping into the icy waters of a deep gorge.Celebrating life, trying to forget for a moment the nightmarish state of this world.And for a while it worked.But tonight I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Children of Gaza and the Bestiality of Stephen Harper
It was an act of unspeakable barbarity. One that has been condemned by governments all over the world. The US and UN have condemned the shelling of a school housing displaced civilians in Gaza. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the attack, which killed 16, was "outrageous". "I condemn this attack in
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