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The Domestic battleground : Canada and the Arab-Israeli conflict / edited by David Taras and David H. Goldberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taras, David, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish-Arab relations.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--Canada.
- Middle East.
- Canada--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- Canada.
- Canada--Foreign relations--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. The Domestic Battleground is the first book devoted to analysing the study of Canada's Middle Eastern policy. David Taras and David H. Goldberg take readers inside the Canadian decision-making process on key issues regarding the Middle East over the last forty years. Bringing together articles by scholars with differing perspectives, this volume brings to light the positions and actions of Canadian political leaders - Mackenzie King, Lester B. Pearson, Joe Clark, Pierre Trudeau, and Brian Mulroney - and assess the impact of media coverage, corporate and governmental interests, and Arab and Jewish lobby groups. The Domestic Battleground addresses the narrowing of the emotional distance separating Canada from the conflicts and disputes indigenous to the Middle East and responds to the presence of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the mainstream of daily life and politics in Canada.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Influencing Canada's Middle East Policy: The Domestic Battleground; DOMESTIC ACTORS; The Zionist Lobby and Canada's Palestine Policy 1941-1948; From Passivity to Politics: Canada's Jewish Community and Political Support for Israel; Canadian Corporations and Their Middle East Interests; A Church Divided: A.C. Forrest and the United Church's Middle East Policy; Keeping Score: From the Yom Kippur War to the Palestinian Uprising; THE GOVERNMENTAL STAGE; ""Here I Am in the Middle"": Lester Pearson and the Origins of Canada's Diplomatic Involvement in the Middle East
- Clark and the Jerusalem Embassy Affair: Initiative and Constraint in Canadian Foreign PolicyForeign Policy Making Towards the Middle East: Parliament, the Media, and the 1982 Lebanon War; Perceptions of the Middle East in the Department of External Affairs and Mulroney's Policy 1984-1988; Collision Course: Joe Clark, Canadian Jews, and the Palestinian Uprising; THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: A CANADIAN ROLE; Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Discussion with Irving Abella and John Sigler; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85139-X
- 9786612851391
- 0-7735-6206-0
- OCLC:
- 929121813
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