Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Influencing Canada's Middle East Policy: The Domestic Battleground -- DOMESTIC ACTORS -- The Zionist Lobby and Canada's Palestine Policy 1941-1948 -- From Passivity to Politics: Canada's Jewish Community and Political Support for Israel -- Canadian Corporations and Their Middle East Interests -- A Church Divided: A.C. Forrest and the United Church's Middle East Policy -- Keeping Score: From the Yom Kippur War to the Palestinian Uprising -- THE GOVERNMENTAL STAGE -- "Here I Am in the Middle": Lester Pearson and the Origins of Canada's Diplomatic Involvement in the Middle East -- Clark and the Jerusalem Embassy Affair: Initiative and Constraint in Canadian Foreign Policy -- Foreign Policy Making Towards the Middle East: Parliament, the Media, and the 1982 Lebanon War -- Perceptions of the Middle East in the Department of External Affairs and Mulroney's Policy 1984-1988 -- Collision Course: Joe Clark, Canadian Jews, and the Palestinian Uprising -- THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: A CANADIAN ROLE -- Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Discussion with Irving Abella and John Sigler -- Contributors.