Zuzak
GRC Report; Wed., Feb. 07, 2007
(1) Canadian Citizenship: In a news release dated 24Jan2007, Andrew
Telegdi announced a
“campaign to stop the unjust stripping of Canadians' citizenship due to
discriminatory citizenship legislation”.
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/cimm05/telegdi20070124NewsRelease.html
Canadians are urged to visit his website at
http://www.telegdi.org/
to send a letter and/or a
petition to the Prime Minister of Canada on the issue. The recent
passport
boondoggle indicates that the citizenship of hundreds of thousands of
Canadians
is at risk.
(2)
Denaturalization and Deportation: Two articles by Gloria Galloway in the Toronto
Globe and Mail dated
26 and 30Jan2007 indicate that Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish
Congress
has inveigled the Armenian, Rwanda and Roma (Gypsy) communities to
support his
call for the deportation of six so-called Nazi war criminals. These are
archived at the Furman/Skomatchuk link of my website at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/furman/furman.html
Of some 103 comments to these articles
posted by the Globe and Mail, that of Michael Kulyk best sums up the
issue.
The
30Jan2007 issue of e-Poshta contains a
blistering commentary on the issue by Paulette MacQuarrie to the
Ukrainian
community. She suggests as to what should be done and elaborates
further on her
delightful blog at http://nashholos.blogspot.com/
. Marsha Skrypuch wrote letters to Babikian Aris of the Armenian
National
Committee of Canada and to the Globe and Mail. They do not appear to be
archived on her blog or website at http://www.calla.com/
.
(3)
Yulia Tymoshenko:
On 12Jan2007, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine overrode President
Viktor Yushchenko's veto on the law on the "Cabinet of Ministers".
The vote was 366 - 0; Party of Regions (185), BYUT (121), Socialists
(31),
Communists (21), Independents (8); Nasha Ukraina (walked out). Thus
Yanukovich
will have full control of appointment of all ministers, including
Defence and
Foreign Affairs.
Yushchenko becomes a figurehead, unless his appeal to the
Constitutional Court
is upheld.
On Saturday, 13Jan2007 Yulia Tymoshenko left with a 30-person retinue
for a 4
day visit to Israel, where she visited a Greek Orthodox church in
Jerusalem,
Tveria in Jordan, Bethlehem, Yad Vashem and met with Speaker Dahlia
Itzyk,
Simon Perez, Bilamin ben Eliezer, Benjamin Netanyahu and Anotoli
Shcharansky.
She appears to have attained a promise from the Israeli Knesset to
recognize
the Holodomor as genocide.
In her Inform Newsletter of 22Jan2007, Yulia Tymoshenko authors an
article
titled “Moscow’s Mideast Myopia”, which appears to approve of the
economic
sanctions imposed on Iran and implicitly provides moral support to the
warmongers in the United States and Israel, who are demanding military
(and,
perhaps, even nuclear) attacks upon Iran. My critique is archived at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/wllzzk/zuzak20070127Tymoshenko.html
The
war mongering against Iran is
increasing in intensity. With Canadian troops, tanks and military
equipment in
Afghanistan and Canadian navy corvettes protecting American aircraft
carriers
in the Persian Gulf, Canada appears to be well positioned to
participate in the
slaughter.
(4)
Conference on “Holocaust in
Ukraine”: According
to AUR#811 of 04Feb2007 such a
conference is being organized by various Holocaust organizations for
Paris,
France on 01-03Oct2007.
(5)
Holodomor: In
AUR#805 of 15Jan2007, editor Morgan Williams notes that in
several articles referring to various genocides throughout the world
the
Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932-33 is never mentioned. AUR#811 refers to
the
ongoing controversy as to whether the Holdomor constitutes a genocide.
This is
reflected in Wikepedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Respectfully
submitted
Will Zuzak, 2007-02-07