Uncertain cargo

A Canadian group wants to sail to Gaza. In this editorial, the Calgary Herald examines their motive.

Building civil society

Khaled Abu Toameh has been a journalist for Israeli and PLO media. With the right leadership, he says, there is no reason that Palestinians could not have built themselves a new Hong Kong or Singapore. Were Western donor countries to insist upon those very elements in exchange for all their aid dollars, they could have helped make it so.