O' Canada!
Being half Canadian myself I couldn't be prouder of the country and its leaders:
Canadian delegation blocks mention of 1967 lines in Group of Eight leaders’ joint statement calling Israel, Palestinians to return to peace talks.
Group of Eight leaders had to soften a statement urging Israel and the Palestinians to return to negotiations because Canada objected to a specific mention of 1967 borders, diplomats said on Friday.
Canada’s right-leaning Conservative government has adopted a staunchly pro-Israel position in international negotiations since coming to power in 2006, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying Canada will back Israel whatever the cost.
Diplomats involved in Middle East discussions at the G8 summit said Ottawa had insisted that no mention of Israel’s pre-1967 borders be made in the leaders’ final communiqué, even though most of the other leaders wanted a mention.
“The Canadians were really very adamant, even though Obama expressly referred to 1967 borders in his speech last week,” one European diplomat said.
One of the key goals of this summit was apparently supposed to be a unified statement on the conflict but they insisted on including the idiotic call for Israel to return to its 1967 borders. Something that will NEVER happen.
And Canada was the only one to stand with Israel.
Before he took office, Canada’s policy on Israel was identical to Europe’s-meaning lots of lip service about being ‘a friend of Israel’ while in practice opposing it in every international forum and lavishly funding its enemies
Britain is already making threats:
“Mr. Harper clearly is the odd man out on this one, and it won’t do him any favours,”
What a world we live in now since Obama took office. The United States and Britain used to fight tooth and nail against tyrants and terrorists….now that Obama and Cameron have come in to office we have become a shadow of our former selves. We now stand against one of our closest allies in the Middle East as they fight for their survival against those same terrorists and tyrants.
Shameful.
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