Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper proved yet again yesterday that he is a reactionary, and very clearly showed his (likely religious-based) bias and blind support for Israel in the face of the reality and history of the Middle East tensions.
Harper said he disagreed with a statement made by Liberal leadership hopeful Michael Ignatieff while on a french language radio show. Ignatieff had the audacity to declare that Israel's bombing of Qana "was a war crime", and that he "should have said that" in the summer rather than actually saying that he was "not losing sleep" over civilian deaths during the Israeli Defense (yeah right!) Forces attack on Qana, Lebanon.
Harper went a few steps further however, stating that he "think[s] that this is consistent with the anti-Israeli position that has been taken by virtually all of the candidates for the Liberal leadership", and that it's not "helpful or useful". I guess Harper didn't see this.
You've got one thing right there George W. Harper, criticizing Israel certainly isn't 'helpful or useful', being that you have already stated that your policy - and now Canadian government policy - is to ignore the reality that is American backed Israeli state terror.
Mr. Harper and the rest of the Canadian Neocons from the religious right who hijacked the Conservative Party of Canada are following U.S. policy in siding with Israeli war crimes over the justice desired by most of the world, and certainly by international law. In their black and white worldview, since the Liberals don't seem to be vociferously approving Israels every action - they must be anti-Israel.
G.W. Harper's assertion that anti-Israeli bias is an issue with the Liberals is completely baseless and without fact, unless we disagree that Canadian politicians should put Canada first, and international law second. He is framing it so that the only way Liberals wouldn't be anti-Israeli would be to support Israel even if they break international law.
This is a classic tactic of the pro-Zionists in the U.S. If you choose to side with international law and right over wrong, rather than Israel - regardless of their actions - you're labelled anti-Israeli, or more commonly - anti-Semitic.
It is intentionally divisive, and designed to break the discussion down to either 'you support Israel no matter what they do' or you are 'anti-Israeli'. It intentionally doesn't leave any room for you to say that you support Israel's right to exist securely, however even they can commit violations of international law, and you are against that.
As I right this, Ignatieff is on TV stating that Hezbollah is a terror organization, while Israel is a democratically elected government; that he and Canada stands 'shoulder to shoulder' with Israel; blah blah blah we love Israel crap. Never mind that Hezbollah is actually a movement dedicated to resisting Israeli occupation of Arab lands (South Lebanon 1978-2000, Palestine 1922-present and Syria's Golan Heights 1981-present), or that Israel is not a true democracy and has at least 65 United Nations resolutions against them since 1955.
With the way support for Israel is becoming an issue that politicians feel they have to make overly clear to the public, I almost feel as if I woke up in the U.S. I really hoped overt bowing to Israel wouldn't make it's way into our political discourse, however it seems we Canadians are not so lucky.
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