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Title of Piece: James Orbinski: "The humanitarian horror in Gaza must end"
Media Outlet: Globe and Mail
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Please help us thank Globe and Mail and James Orbinski for a critical opinion article about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and Israel's actions and responsibility.
Balanced coverage is essential for a healthy media environment. The Globe and Mail have been too one-sided in the past. Articles like this are too rare in the pages of the Globe, and we ought to encourage more of them.
- Orbinski gives a full picture of the situation. He mentions the bombings of hospitals and refugee centers, the killing of aid workers, and Israel's siege. He even uses the genocide in Rwanda to draw a parallel, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
- Orbinski doesn’t shy away from using the right words to describe Israel's war crimes. He mentions collective punishment, the principle of proportionality, the principle of discrimination, and Israel's responsibility to allow humanitarian assistance and protect civilians.
- Orbinksi calls on Canada and all nation-states to use their voice to influence the US, Hamas, and Israel to stop this humanitarian crisis and to comply with international humanitarian law. The West's complicity in the ongoing situation in Gaza is too often omitted.
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