Canada to Palestine: forget UN statehood bid

[mentalfloss]

Canada to Palestine: forget UN statehood bid
Baird urges Palestinian leaders to restart direct talks with Israel

As one Palestinian official noted Monday, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird can be a frank, straight talking man. “There’s no mistaking where he stands,” he told the the Globe and Mail.

No kidding. Baird and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty are currently touring Israel and the West Bank. On Monday, the duo met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and other senior Palestinian officials, where they expressed Canada’s opposition to their bid for recognition as a sovereign state by the UN. Baird reportedly called it “profoundly wrong.”

The foreign minister also lined up in support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, telling the Palestinian leadership he believes they should return to peace negotiations with Israel without any preconditions. For months, Palestinian leaders have refused to hold direct talks, pointing to the construction of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory. According to the organization Peace Now Israel, the rate of settlement construction in the West Bank jumped 20 per cent in 2011.

Baird added Monday that, “whether it is rockets raining down on Israeli schools, or the constant barrage of rhetorical demonization, double standards and delegitimization, Israel is under attack.” He went on to frame Canada’s unequivocal support for Israel as a brave move that flies in the face of dominant anti-Israeli sentiment amongst the international community. Clearly, Baird is working to entrench Canada as one of the world’s most unbending supporters of the Israeli government.

Canada to Palestine: forget UN statehood bid - Need to know - Macleans.ca

 

[#juan]

The UN already set the borders for a Palestinian state and an Israeli state. I see nothing wrong with using those borders.

 

[darkbeaver]

Let him work all he can it will fatten the treason charges against him and his party of dung eating quislings.
Canadians will not support genocidal maniacs.

 

[The Old Medic]

Keep in mind that between 1947 and 1967, ALL of the West Bank and AL:L of the Gaza Strip were under 100% Muslim control.

There was no move, none of any kind, to establish a Palestinian State. In fact, this was never mentioned, UNTIL Israel took control of those areas, after being attacked once again by Jordan, Syria and Egypt. They defeated all three of those invading armies, and they took control of the entire West Bank, the Golan Height's and Sinai Peninsula.

It was only after that defeat, that suddenly there was a hue and cry to establish the State of Palestine. If that had ever really been the aim, it would have been established before 1967. This is nothing but a ploy, to try to salvage something out of the repeated defeats, after all of the Muslim countries have vowed, since 1947, to dive the Jews into the sea and murder all of them.

Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt, after Egypt singed a peace treaty with them. BUT, the Palestinians refuse to do that, and have consistently refused to do so. Therefore, they will get no state of their own, and they should NOT get one until they agree to leave Israel in peace.