September 30, 2006
THE ANGLOSPHERIC CAT AMIDST THE ANTI-SEMITIC PIGEONS:
Harper's defence of Israel sparks political flap (Allan Woods, 9/30/06, CanWest News Service)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper sparked a diplomatic flap Friday on one of his first outings among world leaders after he stood in the way of attempts at the Francophonie summit to craft a pointed political statement on this summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah.Harper found himself fighting against what French President Jacques Chirac called "a great majority'' of the 53 member states at the conference when he took a stand against a statement of sympathy for the civilians in Lebanon because it made no mention of the Israeli civilians displaced, injured or killed in the month-long war.
If we followed the lead of the great French-speaking majority the Jewish problem would have reached its Final Solution by now... Posted by Orrin Judd at September 30, 2006 11:04 AM
He added that ``all the world thinks the same thing. In the crisis, Lebanon suffered and Israel suffered, but it (Israel) suffered less.''
In WWII, the Americans suffered less than the Germans, the Australians suffered less than the Japanese. Does that make the Aussies and the Yanks the bad guys?
Makes me proud once again to be a Canuck. It's been over a decade since that's happened!
Posted by: obc at September 30, 2006 9:42 PM