[news] Paid Trip to Israel has National Chief on the Defensive

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

Mitzi Brown, a Labrador Inuit who is now a Toronto-based student and journalist, has seen first-hand the squalor of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon..."The (Assembly of First Nations) may want to paint (their trip to Israel) as a cultural exchange, but it sends the message that they represent the views of indigenous people in Canada and that they side with Israel in this conflict"..."Fontaine does not speak for all aboriginal people and he should focus on problems at home..."

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