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Drop the myth. Lester Pearson was no friend of Palestine by Yves Engler

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.
The myth of Lester B. Pearson as Canada’s great statesmen who sowed peace in the Middle East still endures. It’s occasionally even invoked by pro-Palestinain advocates. The only problem is that it is completely false. Pearson was complicit in and even encouraged the ethnic genocide of the Palestinian people.

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Israel-Palestine: What has caused the crisis and how can we bring an end to it? by Sid Shniad

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

I’m sure that all this sounds very familiar to our Indigenous sisters and brothers. As the victims of ethnic cleansing, genocide and residential schools, they have no difficulty in understanding the difference between sharing their land with people interested in living with them as neighbours and being beset by those who see them as a problem that must be eliminated.

Continue reading at http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/ijv/2016/11/israel-palestine-what-has-caused-crisis-and-how-can-we-bring-end-to-it