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 | | Chouaib cites Canada's decision in July to abstain when the United Nations General Assembly, including European Union (EU) nations, overwhelmingly supported a resolution that urged Israel to comply with a World Court ruling that found the wall it is building around Palestinian territory in the West Bank, which Israel occupies, is illegal. |
 | | For instance, Canada has officially condemned Israel's targeted assassinations of officials in the Palestinian organisation Hamas because of their possible impact on attempts to renew the peace process, not because such killings violate international law, argues Chouaib. |
 | | Notwithstanding its "confused" Middle East policy, Canada, only a "middle" power, has the means and credibility to take "bold" steps to bring the main players in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the peace table, much in the way Norway did with the initial Oslo accords in the early1990s, he adds. |
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