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Elmer: 'A prescription for civil war'
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
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The government of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, is bolstered by thousands of newly trained police and security forces whose stated aim is to eliminate Islamist groups that may pose a threat to its power - namely Hamas and their support...
Elmer: This Calm Will Not Last
Znet Article, November, 16 2009
Jon Elmer
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She was in a group that hijacked a TWA flight from Rome to Athens in 1969.
Elmer: The Iggy We Know
Znet Article, March, 11 2009
Jon Elmer
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Confronted by his first international crisis as the newly-anointed leader of the Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff's handling of Israel's 22-day assault on Gaza marked a continuation of the current Liberal-Conservative consensus on Canadian foreign...
Elmer: Canada's Counterinsurgency Strategy
Znet Article, March, 27 2007
Jon Elmer
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Following closely behind their counterparts in the United States and Britain, Canada's Department of National Defence is preparing a comprehensive counter-insurgency field manual for its soldiers and officers. The manual will guide Canadian Forces...
Elmer: No Fishing in Gaza
Znet Article, February, 25 2007
Jon Elmer
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GAZA CITY, Feb 14 (IPS) - In the driving rain, Suhail el-Amoudi stands on the wharf of the Gaza City port looking out over the aged and weathered fishing boats as they bob perilously amid the swells of a Mediterranean winter storm.But for el-Amoud...
Elmer: U.S. Backing for Fatah Stirs New Conflict
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Jon Elmer
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GAZA CITY, Feb 2 (IPS) - Explosions, fierce gunfights and ambulance sirens ripped through the Gaza strip again Thursday, only two days after a ceasefire ended a bloody week of factional fighting that left more than 30 Palestinians dead. As night f...
Elmer: War Enters the Classrooms
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Jon Elmer
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GAZA CITY, Feb 5 (IPS) - The United Nations has indefinitely suspended elementary school classes for tens of thousands of Gaza City's children following a weekend of unprecedented factional violence, which turned this isolated enclave into a war z...
Elmer: Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine
Znet Article, January, 29 2007
Jon Elmer
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Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine
Elmer: From the Battle of Britain to Gaza
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Jon Elmer
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OUT OF TWO HUNDRED warplanes that took part in Exercise Maple Flag 2005 in Cold Lake, Alberta in May, only ten were Israeli F-16s. It would be easy to miss their significance. Yet, when Canadian forces extended an invitation to the Israeli Air ...
Elmer: Gaza Terror Bombing
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Jon Elmer
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Gaza City, Oct 3 - Israeli pilots carried out a series of air strikes accompanied by artillery barrages throughout the Gaza Strip, targeting civilian infrastructure, assassinating militants and striking fear into the population with deafening nois...
Elmer: Soldiers, Anguish Remain Around Evacuated West Bank Settlements
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Jon Elmer
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Jenin, West Bank, Aug 26 - Standing in her barnyard amid the chickens and cows, corn stalks and wheat, Sarah Hassan's optimism is guarded, her memories searing as she looks out at the Jewish settlement of Kadim. Her farm, in the village of Arab A...
Elmer: Protest, Grief as Barrier Segregates Palestinian Village from Farms
Znet Article, August, 23 2005
Jon Elmer
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Please see also: Bil'in: A Struggle in Pictures: Photo essay of demonstration against the separation barrier in Bil'in Bil’in, West Bank, Aug 19 - ...
Elmer: Settlements go down, settlements go up
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Jon Elmer
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Jabel Mukhaber, West Bank, Aug 16 - Situated on a hill overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, the new Israeli housing development looks like it could be an upscale planned community in suburban North America: a billboard solicits buyers for "phase...
Elmer: Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Znet Article, July, 25 2005
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Amman, Jul 22 - Hisham Jamil is unequivocal when asked why he and his wife have chosen a life of unemployment in a foreign country over the life they built together in Baghdad. "You know why we left," he said as he walked hand-in-hand with his...
Elmer: The Iraq-Jordan Border
Znet Article, July, 15 2005
Jon Elmer
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Smugglers, refugees, merchants, villagers and Marines interact - and avoid one another - as they carry out what have become new ways of life for travelers of myriad paths: civil, soldierly and secretive. Al-Karama, Jul 13 - Omar Al-Jarirri is the...
Elmer: The Cost of Zionism
Znet Article, March, 07 2004
Jon Elmer
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Jon Elmer: Israel's raison d'etre is to be a national safe haven for Jews of the world, yet we know now that Israel is the most dangerous place in the world for a Jew to live. Elsewhere you have written that Israel is a breeding ground for anti-Se...
