January 25, 2008
A UNILATERAL PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE? (via Bryan Francoeur):
Canada says will not attend U.N. racism conference (Reuters, 1/23/08)
Canada will not take part in a major United Nations conference on racism next year because the event is likely to descend into "regrettable anti-Semitism," a top official said on Wednesday.Officials said they believed Canada was the first nation to announce it will not attend the conference in Durban, South Africa.
A similar meeting at the same venue in 2001 was marred when Israel and the United States walked out in protest over draft conference texts branding Israel as a racist and apartheid state -- language that was later dropped.
Welcome back to the Anglosphere! Posted by Orrin Judd at January 25, 2008 8:20 AM
Too obvious, really.
If Israel is a "racist, apartheid state," then so is America, and so is Canada.
I finaly read Mearsheimer and Walt, The Israel Loby and U.S. Foreign Policy, having waited for my library to get it in. On page 80, we find, hidden, one of the main reasons we back Israel:
"After all, how could Jews coming to Palestine from Europe create a state of their own without taking harsh measures against the Arab population that already dwelt in the land they wanted for their new state? Just as the Europeans who created the United States and Canada could not do so without committing significant crimes against thenative inhabitants, it was virtually impossible for the Zionists to cave ou a Jewish state in Palestine without committing similar crimes against the local residents." [emphasis added]
If the people who founded Israel are criminals because they are settlers, trekkers-forth, why then we are also, and, as well, the Canadians.