October 12, 2006
NOT YOUR FATHER'S CONSERVATIVE/LIBERAL DIVIDE:
PM: Liberal leadership hopefuls 'anti-Israeli' (CTV.ca News, 10/12/06)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper waded further Thursday into the incendiary debate over Liberal leadership front-runner Michael Ignatieff's charge that Israel has committed a "war crime" in Lebanon, blasting the entire Grit hopeful lineup for what he called their "anti-Israeli position."Posted by Orrin Judd at October 12, 2006 5:14 PMWhen asked about the term "war crime" to describe Israel's action against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Harper told reporters at a press conference on Thursday that he found the usage inappropriate, saying "I don't support that view."
But the prime minister went one step further, taking a jab not only at Ignatieff, but the entire lineup of Liberal leadership hopefuls.
"This is consistent with the anti-Israeli position that has been taken with virtually all of the candidates of the Liberal leadership, and I don't think it's helpful or useful."
There are two aspects of the law of war, jus ad bellum and jus in bello: cause and conduct.
The axis of weasels, together with the Boxerists of the world, are manipulating the law of war to turn it against Israel and against the United States. For the hesperophobe, there are two sets of rules, one for settlers and one for so-called "indiginous" peoples. The former are always wrong, the latter are always right.
As to jus in bello, the law of the conduct of war, the Israelis are squeaky clean--much too scrupulous, I should say. They are slandered as war criminals because, as a people of the wagon train, their very existence is held to be a war crime of cause, an aggression in violation of the jus ad bellum.
Posted by: Lou Gots at October 12, 2006 5:49 PM