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              <h1>Alan Baker's Vancouver visit - print coverage </h1>
              <P><img src="../../../files/images/front_page/baker1.jpg" alt="Kim Brooks" width="285" height="290"></P>
              <P><strong>Israel hopeful for peace accord, envoy says: Israel's 
                ambassador to Canada<br>
                says new Palestinian leader wants peaceful coexistence</strong><br>
                The Vancouver Sun <br>
                Thu 13 Jan 2005 <br>
                Page: A3 <br>
                Section: News <br>
                Byline: Neal Hall <br>
                Source: Vancouver Sun </P>
              <p>Israel is optimistic about negotiating a Middle East peace accord 
                with<br>
                Palestine's new President Mahmoud Abbas, and Canada can possibly 
                play a role<br>
                by teaching Palestinians about good government, Israel's ambassador 
                to<br>
                Canada said Wednesday at the University of B.C. </p>
              <p>Everyone is sick and tired of the Israeli-Palestinian violence, 
                and there is<br>
                hope a peace process can be achieved so both sides can co-exist, 
                ambassador<br>
                Alan Baker said in a speech hosted by the UBC law faculty. </p>
              <p>He suggested Canada could get involved in teaching Palestine 
                about how to<br>
                create a good, democratic government, which could be a key factor 
                leading to<br>
                a peace accord. </p>
              <p>In a question period following his speech, one student asked 
                about Israel's<br>
                &quot;brutal&quot; response to Palestinian suicide bombers by 
                destroying their homes. </p>
              <p>&quot;Brutality is in the eye of the beholder,&quot; Baker said. 
                &quot;Where is the<br>
                brutality -- in the terrorist act or the response to it?&quot; 
              </p>
              <p>He said Israel's response of destroying the homes of suicide 
                bombers is<br>
                meant to dissuade such people from carrying out terrorist acts. 
                But the<br>
                response is under review by Israel's supreme court, he added. 
              </p>
              <p>Baker, who noted he has practised international law for 20 years, 
                said there<br>
                is no legal definition of terrorism, and Israel's response to 
                it is not an<br>
                international crime. </p>
              <p>Although there were a number of critical questions about Israel's 
                response<br>
                to Palestinian violence, there were no angry protesters in the 
                crowd of more<br>
                than 100 students and faculty who attended his speech. </p>
              <p>He told reporters he was upset about being called a war criminal 
                by a group<br>
                that planned to protest his appearance Wednesday night at Vancouver's 
                Jewish<br>
                Community Centre. </p>
              <p>&quot;I think the upsetting thing is the adjectives which have 
                been used to<br>
                describe me as a war criminal, a racist. Obviously these people 
                don't know<br>
                what racism is and what war crimes are. I think it's unnecessary 
                to use that<br>
                type of terminology. </p>
              <p>&quot;These people have problems with Israel and its policies, 
                and I'm perfectly<br>
                prepared to sit and talk to anybody, to explain and answer questions.<br>
                There's no need for name-calling. It doesn't solve any problems.&quot; 
              </p>
              <p>He suggested such terminology is used by &quot;extreme people 
                who aren't really<br>
                interested in hearing logical explanations ... they've made up 
                their minds<br>
                and that's it.&quot; </p>
              <p>Appointed ambassador to Canada four months ago, Baker is considered 
                one of<br>
                Israel's most experienced diplomats. Prior to his appointment 
                he held the<br>
                post of legal adviser and director-general of Israel's foreign 
                affairs<br>
                ministry. </p>
              <p>From 1985 to 1989, he worked in the legal affairs office at the 
                United<br>
                Nations headquarters in New York. </p>
              <p>In previous roles, he has been actively involved in peace negotiations 
                and<br>
                has experience with Abbas. </p>
              <p>&quot;We've been negotiating with Mahmoud Abbas virtually from 
                the very<br>
                beginning, from the early '90s,&quot; Baker told reporters after 
                the UBC session.<br>
                &quot;He's known to be somebody who wants to push forward the 
                capability of<br>
                living together with Israel.&quot; </p>
              <p>Illustration:<br>
                . Color Photo: Ian Lindsay, Vancouver Sun / Alan Baker, Israel's 
                ambassador<br>
                to Canada, says Canada could teach Palestinians how to create 
                good<br>
                government.</p>
              <p>Edition: Final <br>
                Story Type: News <br>
                Length: 487 words </p>
              <p><strong><br>
                Israel's ambassador accuses Saudi envoy of personal hostility</strong><br>
                The Vancouver Sun <br>
                Thu 13 Jan 2005 <br>
                Page: A1 / Front <br>
                Section: News <br>
                Byline: Barbara Yaffe <br>
                Column: Barbara Yaffe <br>
                Source: Vancouver Sun </p>
              <p>Israel's ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker, is accusing Saudi 
                Arabia's<br>
                diplomatic representative of being antagonistic toward him in 
                public. </p>
              <p>Baker says that since he arrived in Ottawa last September, Mohammed<br>
                Al-Hussaini &quot;has been openly rude and hostile on several 
                official occasions,<br>
                which was very unnecessary.&quot; </p>
              <p>He told The Vancouver Sun's editorial board that the only real 
                hostility he<br>
                has experienced since arriving in Canada has been from Al-Hussaini, 
                one of<br>
                the most senior members of Ottawa's diplomatic corps. </p>
              <p>Diplomats tend to have a code of behaviour that enables them 
                to rise above<br>
                any bilateral discord. Their prime objective is to lobby on behalf 
                of and be<br>
                an information source for their governments, and to foster a positive 
                image<br>
                for trade and tourism. </p>
              <p>Baker said he approached Foreign Affairs about the Saudi envoy's 
                cold<br>
                shoulder but was told &quot;there's nothing much they can do about 
                it.&quot; </p>
              <p>Al-Hussaini's assistant in Ottawa, who wouldn't identify herself, 
                requested<br>
                a printed version of the Israeli's remarks but said she could 
                not say<br>
                whether Al-Hussaini would respond. (He did not.) </p>
              <p>According to Baker, &quot;a most embarrassing situation&quot; 
                arose several weeks ago<br>
                when Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe hosted a diplomatic 
                get-together<br>
                on Parliament Hill to celebrate a resource-sharing deal reached 
                between the<br>
                Cree Nation and Quebec. </p>
              <p>The Cree chief attended to explain the agreement, titled The 
                Peace of the<br>
                Brave. </p>
              <p>&quot;It was a very interesting discussion. A lot of ambassadors 
                were sitting<br>
                there. And all of a sudden the Saudi ambassador says, if we're 
                talking about<br>
                the peace of the brave, we have to talk about the situation of 
                the<br>
                Palestinians and the fact the Israelis are an apartheid state 
                and are<br>
                violating the rights of Palestinians. </p>
              <p>&quot;So, I responded, 'What's this!' </p>
              <p>&quot;It was unnecessary, undiplomatic. He made a fool of himself.&quot; 
              </p>
              <p>Baker, a one-time Israeli representative at the United Nations 
                and a<br>
                longtime member of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiating team, said 
                diplomats<br>
                more often reach out to one another in pursuit of broader goals. 
              </p>
              <p>During negotiating sessions prior to the last intifada, Israeli 
                and<br>
                Palestinian representatives would regularly stay at the same hotel. 
                &quot;We'd<br>
                swim together, sit together in a Jacuzzi, joke together, sometimes<br>
                negotiate, or complain about our wives. You build up a chemistry, 
                a personal<br>
                relationship, so that you can sell horses and steal horses together.&quot; 
              </p>
              <p>At an Ottawa concert, he reports, he has had occasion to sit 
                beside Kuwait's<br>
                ambassador and the two were friendly. &quot;This is a normal thing 
                one would<br>
                expect from ambassadors. It happens at the United Nations as well. 
                We bump<br>
                into each other and we chat.&quot; </p>
              <p>Likewise, the Indonesian ambassador has been cordial. In fact, 
                Baker says<br>
                the diplomat wished to learn more about Judaism but explained 
                he couldn't<br>
                invite Baker to his home, which the Israeli understood. </p>
              <p>&quot;So, he asked me to put him on to the chief rabbi of Canada. 
                He was very<br>
                civil, very straightforward, very honest, very friendly, fine.&quot; 
              </p>
              <p>Similarly, Baker has had pleasant chats with representatives 
                from Jordan,<br>
                Egypt and &quot;even Iraq. We are past that stage. We're talking 
                in pragmatic<br>
                terms. We want to come to some kind of pragmatic agreement. </p>
              <p>&quot;So that is why it was very sad for me when I got this . 
                . . negative<br>
                reaction.&quot; </p>
              <p>Saudi Arabia's ambassador may be merely reflecting the extreme 
                hostility<br>
                from his homeland directed at Israel. The country goes so far 
                as to warn<br>
                people born in Israel about travel to the kingdom. </p>
              <p>Information from the embassy states: &quot;U.S. citizens whose 
                passports indicate<br>
                they were born in Israel could experience problems obtaining a 
                Saudi visa or<br>
                entering the country.&quot; </p>
              <p>In 2003, Al-Hussaini seriously ruffled Canadian feathers when 
                he vehemently<br>
                denied Canadian William Sampson was tortured while imprisoned 
                in Saudi<br>
                Arabia. He even claimed that Sampson received excellent hospital 
                care during<br>
                his sojourn behind bars in Riyadh. </p>
              <p>Clearly, Al-Hussaini either forgets he is in Canada, a country 
                where<br>
                diversity and tolerance are the norm, or he's trying his best 
                to cultivate a<br>
                reputation as Ottawa's most undiplomatic diplomat. </p>
              <p>byaffe@png.canwest.com </p>
              <p>Illustration:<br>
                . Color Photo: Ottawa Citizen / Mohammed Al-Hussaini has a long 
                record of<br>
                ruffling diplomatic feathers.</p>
              <p>Edition: Final <br>
                Story Type: Column <br>
                Length: 666 words </p>
              <p><strong>Activists protest ambassador's visit: Israeli diplomat 
                defends West Bank<br>
                barrier</strong><br>
                The Vancouver Province <br>
                Thu 13 Jan 2005 <br>
                Page: A28 <br>
                Section: News <br>
                Byline: Jack Keating <br>
                Source: The Province </p>
              <p>More than 50 anti-war activists and members of the Palestinian 
                community<br>
                protested last night in freezing temperatures against the &quot;frightening&quot;<br>
                views of Israel's new ambassador to Canada. </p>
              <p>Alan Baker, who assumed his post in September, gave a speech 
                at the Jewish<br>
                Community Centre in Vancouver in which he explained the need for 
                a<br>
                controversial 700-kilometre barrier the Israeli government is 
                building in<br>
                the West Bank. </p>
              <p>&quot;We are protesting here to make known our opposition to 
                the apartheid wall,<br>
                the separation barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank,&quot; 
                said Derrick<br>
                O'Keefe of StopWar.ca, the Lower Mainland's antiwar coalition. 
              </p>
              <p>&quot;We just want to bring to people's attention issues of international 
                law<br>
                surrounding the wall and that there is a world-wide opposition 
                to its<br>
                construction.&quot; </p>
              <p>But Baker told the crowd of 200 inside that the wall was necessary 
                for<br>
                Israel's defence. </p>
              <p>&quot;The whole aim of Israel's security fence from the very 
                beginning has not<br>
                been to create human-rights problems for the Palestinians. It's 
                been merely<br>
                to prevent terrorists from infiltrating into Israel or Israeli 
                towns,<br>
                villages and settlements.&quot; </p>
              <p>Baker termed the wall &quot;unpleasant and inconvenient&quot; 
                for the Palestinians but<br>
                said, &quot;Israel has a right to defend itself and to defend 
                it's citizens. </p>
              <p>&quot;There is a proportionality between the threat of the terrorism 
                and the<br>
                extent of the inconvenience that it causes for the local population.&quot; 
              </p>
              <p>Last year the World Court in the Hague and the UN General Assembly 
                both<br>
                ruled that Israel's wall was illegal and should be torn down. 
              </p>
              <p>Protesters stayed outside and the protest was peaceful. </p>
              <p>&quot;We think the wall should be dismantled,&quot; said O'Keefe. 
              </p>
              <p>&quot;We would agree with the International Court of Justice 
                decision and the UN<br>
                vote that Israel should dismantle the wall.&quot; </p>
              <p>Jkeating@png.canwest.com </p>
              <p>Edition: FINAL C <br>
                Story Type: News <br>
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