printI received this from the Canadian Coalition for Democracies. The information is well good, as Ali G. would say, but the title is even better. Big up to the CCD for the title (and also for standing up for justice).” ILANA
CANADA JOINS RUNNING OF THE JEW AT U.N. FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF CANUKISTAN*
Toronto, Thursday, November 30, 2006, The Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) is disappointed by the voting of the government of Canada in yesterday’s slew of anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations.
“Canada has again legitimized the use of UN resolutions to demonize one nation, while ignoring the truly serious human rights violations of other member states,” said Alastair Gordon, president of CCD. “Until resolutions are applied evenhandedly to all UN members, Canada must express its condemnation by voting ‘no’ on all such resolutions.”
In its first 42 years, the UN tabled 370 resolutions condemning Israel and zero resolutions critical of the PLO or any Arab state. When Syria slaughtered 20,000 of its own citizens at Hama in 1982, or when it sponsored the destruction and occupation of Lebanon, or even when Iraq massacred its Kurdish citizens with poison gas, there were no UN resolutions criticizing the perpetrators. In recent years, a handful of resolutions have targeted other Middle Eastern states, but the lion’s share is still reserved for Israel.
In October 2005, former Prime Minister Paul Martin referred to “the annual ritual of politicized anti-Israel resolutions” at the UN. In November 2004, Canada’s then ambassador to the United Nations, Allan Rock, announced to the General Assembly that “resolutions [against Israel] are often divisive and lack balance.” Yet even with this recognition, both our past and present governments’ anti-Israel voting pattern has barely changed.
The Fourth Committee yesterday tabled nine ritualized resolutions targeting Israel for criticism. Canada voted against Israel on seven, and supported Israel on two. The only change from last year’s voting pattern was the change of one abstention to a ‘no’.
“The Stephen Harper government has taken a number of principled foreign policy positions that Canadians can be proud of. Yet it is choosing to continue the despicable bullying of one nation, a travesty that was identified by our former Prime Minister and UN ambassador,” added Gordon. “Until UN resolutions are an unbiased tool applied equally to all member states, Canada’s response to all ritualized anti-Israel resolutions must be NO.”
* With apologies to Borat
Founded in 2003, the Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) is a non-partisan, multi-ethnic, multi-denominational organization of concerned Canadians dedicated to national security and the protection and promotion of democracy at home and abroad. CCD focuses on research, education and media publishing to build a greater understanding of the importance of national security and a pro-democracy foreign policy.
When I lived in Canada I noted two things. 1) The Canadians were very polite people and 2)they were luke warm about everything, except resenting Americans. Their headlong plunge into socialism and political correctness is one outcome of this tepid nature. (Sounds a lot like many current Americans.) Don’t expect much from the Canadians. It’s not in them to get tough about anything unless its about harassing American children playing in a hockey tournament. With apologies to the French Canadians, another set of political,social complications, the Canadians are basically junior grade British with just the right amount of missing intestinal fortitude.
Well, if I had to guess what’s behind this curious double standard, I’d say that, 1) the Jihadists want to exterminate the Jews – not just Israel, the Jews. (“How can you think such a thing you Islamophobic racist?” I hear. Uh, give me a hint. Is it because they say so?)
And, 2) A certain segment of the European intellectual community and their clones in North America have decided on some level that that’s a price they can pay for peace, as long as their hands are “clean”, and are nerving themselves up for it. (And no, I have no idea how big that segment is.)
If you’re Jewish, you probably hear from the whack-job loudmouths who you can dismiss as marginal. I’m not, so I hear from the allegedly reasonable people who’d never say it to your face. “One side’s as bad as the other” (and the off-the-wall examples used to prove this). “Well the Holocaust was awful but you’ve got to understand…” etc.
So call me nuts and go back to sleep.
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