By Luke Savage

I am not a Palestinian. Nor am I an Arab. I am neither Jewish nor Israeli. Unlike many of the other voices that speak tonight my family did not come from The Old City or the West Bank, or from the bustling streets of Tel-Aviv. It fought the war on the safe side of the Channel, and not in the ghettoes of Warsaw or on the desert battlefields of El-Alamein. Canada is my land and I speak as a Canadian, whatever a Canadian is. S/he could be anybody, from anywhere; fresh off the plane from Dubai, or an Iroquois whose family has fished in the St Lawrence for a thousand years.