Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Influencing Canada’s Middle East Policy: The Domestic Battleground 3
5. Domestic Actors
6. The Zionist Lobby and Canada’s Palestine Policy 1941-1948 17
7. From Passivity to Politics: Canada’s Jewish Community and Political Support for Israel 37
8. Canadian Corporations and Their Middle East Interests 63
9. A Church Divided: AC. Forrest and the United Church’s Middle East Policy 86
10. Keeping Score: From the Yom Kippur War to the Palestinian Uprising 102
11. The Governmental Stage
12. “Here I Am in the Middk”: Lester Pearson and the Origins of Canada's Diplomatic Involvement in the Middk East 125
13. Clark and the Jerusalem Embassy Affair: Initiative and Constraint in Canadian Foreign Policy 144
14. Foreign Policy Making Towards the Middle East: Parliament, the Media, and the 1982 Lebanon War 167
15. Perceptions of the Middle East in the Department of External Affairs and Mulroney’s Policy 1984-1988 186
16. Collision Course: Joe Clark, Canadian Jews, and the Palestinian Uprising 207
17. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Canadian Role
18. Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Discussion with Irving Abella and John Sigler 227
19. Contributors 249