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Le Conflit Israël / Hamas — À Montréal? Photo Robert J Murphy Simard Adler The New Frugality Humanity 2009 Keep real Gaza Page 17 Page 19 facts in mind Page 9 Ensemble et libres Together and free 15 JANUARY 2009 • VOL. 2, NO 4 THE BILINGUAL JOURNAL OF REFLECTION, OPINION AND THE ARTS • LE JOURNAL BILINGUE DE RÉFLEXION, OPINIONS ET LES ARTS WWW.THEMETROPOLITAIN.CA LE CONFLIT ISRAËL / HAMAS — À MONTRÉAL? PHOTO ROBERT J. GALBRAITH J. ROBERT PHOTO PHOTO A. AUCOIN A. PHOTO Jacques Brassard Israel n'a pas le choix Alain-Michel Ayache Le Quotidien Les Palestiniens sont les victimes de leurs [email protected] « frères » et de leurs dirigeants Le combat d’Israël Le texte suivant est cosigné par Gilbert Achsen; Richard Lettre à Gaza... Bastien, économiste; Germain Belzile, économiste; Claude- Marc Bourget, écrivain et musicien; Pierre Brassard, auvre Proche-Orient ! Pauvre Gaza ! Pauvres pour sa survie, c’est journaliste; Jacques Brassard, ancien ministre et Palestiniens ! Pauvre peuple en perdition… Comme si chroniqueur; Jean-Charles Chebat, professeur; Maurice G. Ple destin continue de s’acharner contre toi pour faire aussi notre combat Dantec, écrivain; Antoine Djénandji, homme d'affaires; parvenir un message à l’ensemble des pays de la région, et Ginette Dubé; Jean-Marie Gélinas, président des Amitiés particulièrement à tes « frères » arabes. Qu’à l’instar des leurs, endant quelques instants, envisagez la situation suivante : Québec-Israël; Michael Laughrea, chercheur universitaire; tu ne représentes aux yeux de tes chefs qu’une monnaie à partir de Larouche et de St-Bruno, une organisation Michèle Monette; Jean Renaud, directeur de la revue d’échange, pire encore, une denrée périssable dont on peut terroriste lance sur Alma, quotidiennement, des dizaines Égards; Jacques Tremblay et Andres Villarruel. s’en passer… quand tu ne sers pas tout simplement de chair à P canon ! de roquettes et de missiles et cela, pendant des années. Et ces engins meurtriers sont tirés à l'aveuglette. Ils peuvent tomber uelque 7000 obus de mortiers et roquettes tirés sur Depuis la « Nakba » en 1948 et jusqu’à aujourd’hui, les n'importe où : sur un centre d'achat, sur une école, sur des le territoire d'Israël depuis 2001. Des dizaines de promesses de tes chefs n’étaient que teintées de mensonges. résidences, sur une église. N'importe où! Les citoyens d'Alma, Qmilliers de civils israéliens ciblés par des attaques On t’avait assuré le droit du retour à la « terre des ancêtres », Suite à la page 4 Suite à la page 4 Suite à la page 7 AUCOIN: The Inaugural Inspiration Page 10 JONES: Political Correctness - the Curse of Civilization Page 12 2 COMMENT THE MÉTROPOLITAIN • 15 JANUARY 2009 • VOL. 2, NO 4 Beryl Wajsman WWW.THEMETROPOLITAIN.CA Editor & Publisher Days that sear our souls Ensemble et Libres ~Together and Free Édifice Hermès, Tour A, Suite 155, 1470 rue Peel, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3A 1T1 his week and next, we would Tel: 514-759-8541 do well to pause and reflect on Fax: 514-759-8544 Tthe solemn and universal e-mail: [email protected] backdrop against which this period of time unfolds every year. Rédacteur en chef et Éditeur Beryl P. Wajsman It is a period that reminds us of those historical encounters between Managing Editor and Deputy Publisher Anthony Philbin governors and governed, when every act of the authorities exasperates the Rédacteur-adjoint principal Daniel Laprès people and every refusal to act excites their contempt. A period of 12 days Contributing Editor Brigitte B. Garceau that should rend our souls asunder with searing intensity and pierce our Riders in the American South. Coordonnateur, Affaires internationales Leonard Dykler (Paris) hearts with rape-like violation. A Haunted by the killing fields of period that begins with a date held Vietnam and Cambodia. Haunted by Copy Editor Ray Doucet sacred to all those of conscience who exceptions, has been permeated with the bodies rotting in the jungles of We seem to react when it costs us engage in the struggle for mankind’s the odious odors of justice compro- Rwanda and in the fetid marshes of nothing in terms of our personal Photojournaliste Robert J. Galbraith transcendent yearning for redemptive mised by timidity, honor cheapened the Balkans. bottom lines. We readily accept change. A period that ends with a through expediency and promise As we face today’s dire challenges, whatever manipulated mages and Editorial Artwork Roy Piperberg, Melissa K. Wheeler date that challenges us to fulfill that mortgaged to avarice. we must all become Wallenbergs opinions flood us from television struggle as we bear witness to For the litmus test of mankind’s and Kings — ready to assume and magazines as reality. We eagerly Ventes et Marketing Joseph Mardini, Genevieve Maclean mankind’s debased desertion of any civility is not how we treat those who individual responsibility, each digest political sound bites as of its noble aspirations. are many, or agreeable, or privileged, drawing strength from the sure quickly as any fast food. Our surren- IT Director Valeri Prudnikov January 15 would have been the or quiescent, but rather how we treat knowledge that one person can der has demonstrated nothing less 80th birthday of the Reverend Martin those who are few, and different, and make a difference. We have a than an abandonment of the Webmestre François Charbonneau Luther King, Jr. January 17 is the alienated, and stubborn. The world is responsibility to follow Gandhi’s possibilities of our own capacities. 64th anniversary of the disappearance still failing that test. counsel and act quickly to arrest “the Wallenberg, King and the genera- of Raoul Wallenberg. And January 27 The possibilities of greatness and evil that staggers drunkenly from tion of survivors refused to Editorial staff will mark the 64th anniversary of the generosity are constantly compro- Alidor Aucoin, Daniel K. Bartlett, Michel-Wilbrod Bujold, wrong to wrong in order to preserve surrender. Their testaments are Chris Bumbray, Dan Delmar, Guillaume Durou, liberation of Auschwitz. mised by an ungracious modernity its own immortality.” living ones to this day. Testaments to Vincent Geloso, Louise V. Labrecque, Pierre K. Malouf, Astonishingly, the United Nations, at and a suffocating self-absorption For today, as before, the a different world where people see Jessica Murphy, Isaac J. Olson, Robert Presser, Peter Sauvé, whose entrance are carved the words filled with false pieties as excuses consequence of failure will be dire. wrongs and try to right them; see P.A. Sevigny, David Simard, Sharman Yarnell of Isaiah that “Swords shall be beaten for inaction. Little resolve abounds Dire to the billions living in grinding suffering and try to heal it, see into plowshares and nation shall not to remedy the malignancies of hate, poverty in a world of abundance. injustice and try to stop it. A world Editorial contributors jealousy and greed with the compass Rouba Al-Fattal, Alain-Michel Ayache, Germain Belzile, make war against nation anymore,” Dire to the devastated of Darfur, that rejects the cowardice of the fey Jean-Charles Chebat, Duff Conacher, Esther Delisle, officially commemorated the of compassionate conscience and whose suffering many governments and feckless that would have us Graham Dodds, Daniel Dufort, Robert Elman, Fred Eytan, Holocaust for the first time only in the courage of character to protect still refuse to call genocide. Dire to acquiesce in our own self-abnega- Patrick C. Gagnon, Julius Grey, Rudyard Griffiths, Nancy 2006. right from wrong. the enslaved tens of millions in Asia tion. Hinton, George Jonas, David T. Jones, Barbara Kay, The contrasts are telling, and their Frivolous squabblings that are living under oppressive regimes If we do not keep faith with the David Kilgour, Rémi Landry, Marc Lebuis, Lewis W. Mackenzie, nothing more than promotions of Timothy Mak, Annette Paquot, John Parisella, Andrei lessons may be our last best hope for providing cheap labor for Faustian memory and witness of these 12 Piontkovsky, Daniel Romano, Michael Ross, David Solway, our own humanity. Wallenberg and petty self-interests overwhelm what alliances of state and industrial days; if we ever forget the imperative Francis Tourigny, Thomas R. Velk, Hubert Villeneuve, King personified the prophecy that King called the “fierce urgency of interests. Dire to the tens of millions of redemptive rage; if we stop daring Albert A. Zbily the day will come when “Justice shall now” — the fierce urgency to bring dying of AIDS and famine in Africa to care, then we will have betrayed roll down like waters and righteous- to an end the spectacular and watched by an apathetic and the visionary hope embodied in the Strategic Counsel ness as a mighty stream.” Without frequent failures of man. For in the avaricious world that still cares less line of the Song of the Partisans that Charles S. Coffey fidelity to that goal, we will be left dead of night we will forever be about the content of a man’s charac- was shared at the mountaintop by all with little more than a future of haunted by those failures as the thin, ter than about the color of his skin. the Wallenbergs and Kings, the Ezekiel’s vision of a valley of dry humid rivulets of sweat crawl over For all our demonstrations and Mandelas and Kennedys and the Letters and Submissions bones, forever parched by the horrors us like vermin. petitions, we have been ambivalent Sharanskys and Walesas: “Kumen The Métropolitain encourages letters and submissions of Auschwitz, making this world Haunted by the mounds of ashes and apathetic toward the insolence vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho” from our readers in both official languages. SVP brittle and arid and stench-filled. that once were 1.5 million smiling and inaction of authority. We have — “Upon us yet will dawn the day envoyer vos textes à: During these days, the heavens children playing in the streets of perpetuated sins of silence with we hold so dear.” [email protected] themselves seem to challenge us to “civilized” Europe.
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