Garth Turner, MP, creates a daily video of interest to Canadians, in Parliament when it is sitting. Yesterday, Dec. 13, he interviewed Borys Wrzesnewskyj, MP(Etobicoke Centre, Vice Chair, Justice Committee), who stated that his seasonal wish is for a Ministry of Peace for Canada. Our Toronto member, Rob Acheson, met with him earlier this year to discover that Borys had called for a Ministry of Peace in April 2006, as recorded in Hansard. With allies like Borys, we are on our way!

Here is a link to the web site:
http://www.garth.ca/mptv/#current. It is the second of two videos.

If for some reason, you cannot access the video this way, find it in the archives under Latest Videos, on December 13.

Uri Avnery, the famous writer on Israel-Palestine relations, indicates, in an article in the newspaper, Gush Shalom, on Nov. 3. that, in 1946, he called for a a Peace Ministry. He states that: …”since the achievement of peace was the main task of the state, it was unacceptable that there was no professional body dealing exclusively with this matter. I proposed the creation of a special Peace Ministry. The Foreign Office, I maintained, was unsuited to this task, since its main function was to wage the international struggle against the Arab world. To popularize the idea, I said that as a counterweight to the ‘khaki General Staff’. which prepares war operations, we needed a ‘white General Staff,’ which would prepare peace operations.”

Uri repeated that call in the Knesset(Israeli Parliament) ten years later and here he does so again. Imagine how the course of history in the Middle East could have been different with an Israeli Minister of Peace in place. There is now a renewed call for Ministers of Peace in both Israel and Palestine by members of the Global Alliance in both countries.