The Harper Doctrine: Why Canada's prime minister supports Israel

Colpy

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Here's another reason.

A poster issued by Fatah.....not the extremist Hamas, but "moderate" Fatah......

Later withdrawn, but still revealing.

Israel has no one to negotiate peace with.....
 

Completelylegal

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On Israel as on so many files, Harper (fortunately) promises more than he delivers. After many years in office, he goes to Israel to make a strident speech but refuses to discuss Canada's current official policy on the Occupied Territories while there. If he disliked his own policy so much, why didn't he change it? This is the fiscal conservative who has run up big deficits, the international tough guy who has starved the military of funding, the lover of open government...you get the picture.

So his style is nasty but his content is not early as right-wing as one might have expected. If this is a revolution, it's a very slow one.

Not all Christians in the West Bank share your enthusiasm for Israel.
 

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I had a jewish lover once,only once,it was one of my most fond memories of love making.

i think this was the only jew i ever met in my first 40 years of life,strange but true.
 

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John Baird's convoy pelted with eggs in West Bank




Yes, our peripatetic and staunch, uncritical supporter of all things Israeli, Foreign Minister John baird, was spared the ultimate humiliation during a visit (link is external) to the West Bank city of Ramallah today to meet with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki.



Protesters held signs reading: "Baird you are not welcome in Palestine."Here is some raw footage of the event, which many Canadians will look upon rather wistfully, I suspect, given that at home, members of the Harper regime have a far more nuanced relationship with the public, appearing only before carefully vetted, friendly groups:




John Baird's convoy pelted with eggs in West Bank - Politics - CBC News






www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD5fZqDVhls&feature=player_embedded