Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles from January 1 2005

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion archives from January 1 2005

Introducing Inroads 16.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... ONE OF MY MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AS MANAGING EDITOR OF Inroads is to review and edit all copy before it goes to print. In doing that, I am generally more concerned with stylistic matters than with substantive ones, paying more attention to...

Plus ca change: cycles of history and the 2004 federal election.(Inroads listserv)
January 1, 2005... DURING THE LAST FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN, THERE WAS A moment when a Conservative minority government looked likely, with wide speculation that it might be propped up by the Bloc Quebecois. On the Inroads listserv, that led to an illuminating...

The view from Armageddon.(Israel/Palestine: introduction)
January 1, 2005... IN 1983, ISRAELI NOVELIST AMOS OZ INTERVIEWED MILITANT SETTLER PINCHAS Wallerstein. "There are 25,000 Jews, net, in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] today, not counting greater Jerusalem," said Wallerstein. "Five years from now, if you go by...

Arabic in Israel: a pictorial.(Israel/Palestine)
January 1, 2005... FIVE YEARS AGO, ON A TRIP TO ISRAEL, MY RENTED CAR WAS VANDALIZED. Reporting the incident at a Jerusalem police station, I noticed that signs were posted in Hebrew and English, but not in Arabic. I thought that odd. Returning to Israel this...

Two Canadian-Palestinian views.(Inroads conversation)(Interview)
January 1, 2005... NADA SEFIAN was born in Saida, Lebanon, and also lived in Saudi Arabia and France before coming to Canada in 1986. Her parents lived in Majdal Askalan (now Ashkelon), until her father was expelled by the Israel Defence Forces after the 1948...

Why is there no Israeli-Palestinian peace?(Israel/Palestine)
January 1, 2005... ISRAEL/PALESTINE HAS BEEN HOTLY CONTESTED BY TWO NATIONAL movements. Both have legitimate claims, but have been unable to find historical accommodation. Are both equally at fault for the impasse, and what are the current prospects if any for a...

The debate on Canadian campuses: bringing back democracy and the spirit of scholarship.(Israel/Palestine)
January 1, 2005... THE UNIVERSITY IS A UNIQUE INSTITUTION IN SOCIETY. IT SHOULD, everywhere and always, be a place where all views, even unpopular ones (including, say, support for cannibalism), can be heard. Popularity does not determine the validity of a point...

The European Union and the Israel-Palestinian conflict.(Israel/Palestine)
January 1, 2005... OUR YEARS AGO AT CAMP DAVID, IN JULY 2000, THE MIDDLE EAST Peace Process seemed to be nearing its destination--at least on the Israeli-Palestinian track. Two months later violence engulfed the region, revealing for all to see the fragility of...

The PD factor: Christian fundamentalists and U.S. policy in the Middle East.(Israel/Palestine)
January 1, 2005... ONE OFT-CITED OBSTACLE TO PEACE BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND Palestinians is the presence of two fundamentalisms on the territory claimed by both peoples. For Islamic fundamentalists, epitomized by the figure of the suicide bomber, Israel represents an...

What was it all about? West coast reflections on the 2004 federal election.(Election)
January 1, 2005... INVITED GORDON GIBSON AND DOUG MCARTHUR, TWO SEASONED observers of Canadian politics, to reflect on the outcome of last June's federal election. Gibson is convinced that regionalism and the "urge to democratic reform," two forces suppressed for...

Now is it time for proportional representation?(Election)
January 1, 2005... THE 2001 ELECTION THAT ROUTED THE BRITISH COLUMBIA NDP government, the Liberals, with slightly over half the popular vote, won fully 77 seats in a 79-seat legislature; the NDP retained a little over a fifth of the vote, but won only two seats;...

Electeurs en herbe: building citizenship step by step: a Quebec approach to civic education.(Quebec)
January 1, 2005... VOTER TURNOUT DECLINED YET AGAIN IN THE JUNE 2004 FEDERAL election, the fourth such decline in as many elections. The latest decline came despite this being the closest election in years. Young people, it is clear, continue to abstain in record...

Kierans and Ryan: politicians without pigeonholes.(Quebec)(Biography)
January 1, 2005... It is one of the ironies of recent Quebec history that the same Catholic Church that was the central institution in the old, pre-Quiet Revolution Quebec also nurtured some of the leading figures in the new, more secular society that succeeded...

Montreal demergers: an update.(Quebec)
January 1, 2005... INROADS 15 WE DESCRIBED THE PROCESS LEADING UP TO THE JUNE 20 demerger referendums in Quebec municipalities. (1) We paid particular attention to developments in Montreal where a new administration under Gerald Tremblay came to power in January...

Are you going to Old Orchard again this year? Quebec's New England outpost.(Quebec)
January 1, 2005... HE QUESTION ASKED IN THE TITLE, TAKEN FROM THE SONG "Estce-que tu vas a Old Orchard encore cet annee?" from a 1984 album by Sylvain Lelievre, can be heard throughout Quebec as the snow melts and the sun starts to radiate on the spring horizon....

Looking across the Mediterranean: radical Islamic politics and the West's response.(The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West)(Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Gilles Kepel, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 336 pages. (translation of: Fitna: Guerre au coeur de I'islam. Paris: Gallimard, 2004. 380 pages.) ...

From New Left history to ethnic Darwinism.(The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, 2nd ed.)(Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999. London: John Murray, 2000....

Avatar of anarchy, guarantor of order.(Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War against the Palestinions)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Baruch Kimmerling, Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War against the Palestinions. London: Verso, 2003. 243 pages. ARIEL SHARON IS AN EMBODIMENT OF PARADOX. OVER A HALF-CENTURY career in war and politics, "The Bulldozer," as he is widely known in...

Ending the war of 1948.(Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002)(Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs 1948-2003)(Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Charles Enderlin, Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002. New York: Other Press, 2002.458 pages. Itamar Rabinovich, Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs 1948-2003. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University...

America's impatient imperialism.(Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Michael Ignatieff, Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2003. 134 + viii pages. In Empire Lite, IGNATIEFF POINTS OUT THE RATHER OBVIOUS, AT least to Canadian observers: that the United...

A diehard Keynesian view of the world.(In the Long Run We're All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Timothy Lewis, In the Long Run We're All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. 288 pages. TIMOTHY LEWIS'S In the Long Run We're All Dead IS A LOOK AT THE history of Canadian...