In December 1985, the Canadian press reported the death by suicide of hundreds of field mice in the Middle East. In an apparently instinctive reaction to a problem of over-population, the mice willfully plunged to their doom off the cliffs of the Golan Heights. This bizarre story was the subject not only of straight news coverage in the Canadian press, but also of an editorial in the Globe and Mail on December 20. On November 1, 1985, the Globe …
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…of these policy shifts, see Goldberg, 1989, pp. 25-26. Goldberg and Taras (1989, p. 221) arrive at a similar conclusion. Works Cited: Bercuson, D. (1989). Canadian policy in historical perspective. Middle East Focus, 11(3), 18-20, 30. Canadian News Index. Toronto: Micromedia. Choquet, M. (1984). Canadian mass media and the Middle East. In Tareq Ismael (Ed.), Canadian Arab relations, policy and perspectives (pp. 75-85). Ottawa: Jerusalem International Publishing House. Clark, J. (1989). Statement by the Honorable Joe Clark, Secretary of State for External Affairs