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Honorable Colleagues, I arrived in Canada in 1979 to attend an international school named after Lester Pearson. One of my roommates was Karim from Egypt. He taught me the only Arabic words I know — Ya Habibi — which means “my love”.

He used it as an affectionate term for his roomies, and girlfriends.

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I also met Anees and Nasir, two of the first Palestinian Arab refugees who received scholarships to study in Canada. Their families had been displaced by the Nakba, or “Catastrophe” of 1948. I vividly remember having passionate discussions with them, and with fellow students from Israel, on the question of Palestinian statehood.

It seemed to me at the time that the establishment of a Palestinian state was both just and inevitable, and very likely something I would see in my lifetime.

Forty-four years on, we not only do not have a Palestinian state, but we are witnessing before our very eyes the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and the forced relocation of civilians from their