Few international issues have aroused as much passionate interest and political activity among Canadians. The contest on "the domestic battleground" has been decisive in determining Canada's policies in the Middle East. The Domestic Battleground provides the history and background needed to understand Canadian attitudes toward both the explosive unrest occurring in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the participants in the conflict - Israel, the Palestinians, and the rest of the Arab world. Taras and Goldberg analyse the struggles over the levers of decision making in Ottawa and the battle between moral stances and convictions that has taken place among concerned Canadians.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 327.71056
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0773507051 9780773562066
- LCCN
- DS63.2.C2
- LCCN Item number
- D663 1989eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vi, 250 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00201091 (OCoLC)227038255 (CaOOCEL)400776
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Influencing Canada's Middle East Policy: The Domestic Battleground 12
- DOMESTIC ACTORS 24
- The Zionist Lobby and Canada's Palestine Policy 1941–1948 26
- From Passivity to Politics: Canada's Jewish Community and Political Support for Israel 46
- Canadian Corporations and Their Middle East Interests 72
- A Church Divided: A.C. Forrest and the United Church's Middle East Policy 95
- Keeping Score: From the Yom Kippur War to the Palestinian Uprising 111
- THE GOVERNMENTAL STAGE 132
- "Here I Am in the Middle": Lester Pearson and the Origins of Canada's Diplomatic Involvement in the Middle East 134
- Clark and the Jerusalem Embassy Affair: Initiative and Constraint in Canadian Foreign Policy 153
- Foreign Policy Making Towards the Middle East: Parliament, the Media, and the 1982 Lebanon War 176
- Perceptions of the Middle East in the Department of External Affairs and Mulroney's Policy 1984–1988 195
- Collision Course: Joe Clark, Canadian Jews, and the Palestinian Uprising 216
- THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: A CANADIAN ROLE 234
- Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Discussion with Irving Abella and John Sigler 236
- Contributors 258
