Category Archives: Israel

Canada Joins Running of the Jew at U.N. for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Canukistan*

Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Canada, Israel, Media, Middle East, UN

I 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.

AC 180º

Israel

Strange doings at the Israel bashing American Conservative. The September-11 issue follows on the horrible heels of Israel’s war in Lebanon—a war which I repudiated in “Israel Risks Squandering Moral High Ground,” “Call Off the Israeli Air Force!,” and in blogs such as “In Politics, Rubbish Rises to the Top.”
But lo-and-behold, and completely contrary to its traditional chronic anti-Israelism, TAC has published a piece in support of that war by the impressive Israeli military historian, Martin van Creveld. As I say, as much as I admire van Creveld and support Israel’s fight for survival against the manifestly savage societies surrounding it, I couldn’t, in good conscience, endorse that war. The Israeli people, as I wrote in “Israel Has Something To Be Proud Of,” appear to tilt in my direction.
I digress. The point here is that never in a million years would I have expected to see this article in TAC after a war “evil” Israel waged on a neighbor.
I expected a counterpoint, correcting the omission, but there was none—not a substantive one, at least. A sappy fellow called Stewart Nusbaumer offered an atmospheric piece, full of fatalism and cliches (“cycle of violence”), that described the pain of war as experienced by ordinary Israelis—Arabs and Jews. He mixes in some subtle TAC theology (read “The Final Solution to the Jewish State” to understand what that is). In this instance, allusions to a dispute that has been plaguing the region for 4000 years. The revisionist implications are that Israel’s local Arabs can be traced to the inhabitants Abraham (Avram then) encountered on arriving from Ur.
Also, when Nusbaumer describes a waitress who expected to be called up, you know he is having another less-than-credible epistolary moment. The reason you didn’t see any Israeli women soldiers on the Lebanese front is because Israel doesn’t allow them in combat. And so it should be! Everyone knows that, bar a few rare amazons, women can’t fight like men, and that they disrupt the essential life-preserving camaraderie among soldiers by eliciting chivalry and introducing sexuality into an already deadly situation. Israelis can’t afford to ignore these factors. Being an ex-US marine, Nusbaumer may not be aware of this politically incorrect reality.
So what, if anything, explains this out-of-the-mold issue? Well, in all likelihood this is a fluke and the magazine will resume its nutty “free Palestine” screeching. On the other hand, if TAC’s readers and mine overlap at all, then they may have heard a thing or two from their subscribers. Most paleos I hear from are profoundly traditional, appreciate the “Hebraic Bond,” and are nowhere-near ready to replace it with the Arabist, pro-Palestinian, radical chic of the hard left, hitherto TAC’s stance. We’ll have to wait and see.

Israelis Confound Bush Babes

Israel

Israelis have a different attitude to their leaders than do Americans. No sooner had our local war harpies lined up to can-can for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, than the Israeli people were calling for his canning. How embarrassing!

Here Gideon Levy complains that his countrymen’s complaints against the Lebanon war and its prosecutors are not sufficiently principled. They’re already at the stage of critiquing the critiques. Kudos!

Back here at home, Bush’s Stepford Wives (new ones have cropped up since that was written) continue to stand by their man, leveling that childish accusation — “Bush hater,” or traitor — at anyone who dares to suggest the king’s in the mental buff.

On a less optimistic note: Israel says it may have to take on Iran alone. Now there’s an idea: After the Israeli Defense Forces defeated Hezbollah with such ease (not!), why not take on those responsible for training that remarkably capable terrorist organization?

From Bondage to Freedom

Islam, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Media, Middle East

Fox Correspondent Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig were freed, after being held in Palestinian captivity for two weeks. Hostage taking is a developing industry in the PA, an import from “liberated” Iraq, it would seem. Better that than, say, working for a living.

I don’t mean to criticize the two men. They had to placate their captors. I fully understand and sympathize with that. I’m just not quite clear on the conclusions Centanni and Wiig drew from their harrowing ordeal:

Said Centanni: “the Palestinian people are very beautiful and kind-hearted,” a sentiment Wiig reiterated by expressing his fear that the plight of the Beauteous Ones would be left untold if such unlovely acts proliferated. (No such luck: the most rehashed story ever will continue to be rehashed, and the resolution of the so-called Palestinian problem tied to every treaty or agreement imaginable. I hear Pigmy tribes won’t parcel out a piece of rain forest without a promise that the plight of the Palestinian people be solved.)

Centanni related that they “were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint.” But incase viewers took issue with Centanni’s use of the word “forced,” or if they understood him to mean he would not have converted voluntarily, Centanni quickly qualified: “Don’t get me wrong here,” he told Fox. “I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it, but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns…”

Despite the oddly inverse conclusions the two freed media men drew from the experience, they hastily departed for Israel through the northern Erez border crossing. As the old adage goes, actions speak louder than words.