Toronto Star Islamist Attacks Harper
Charles Johnson
Thu Jul 20, 2006 at 8:26 am PDT • Views: 360
The Toronto Star’s resident Islamist, Haroon Siddiqui, attacks Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for supporting Israel: PM’s pro-Israeli tilt could cost him at polls.
Stephen Harper reminds me of the late King Fahd, of the American puppet state of Saudi Arabia, who was said to be more American than the American president.
By falling in lockstep with George W. Bush, the Prime Minister is either displaying his ideological commitment to the president or trying to please him, at any cost — from Afghanistan to Israel. Either way, he is compromising Canadian sovereignty and our reputation for even-handedness, as well as exposing our soldiers to grave risk in the questionable Afghan mission.
To be fair, Ottawa’s pro-American tilt began under Paul Martin. But Harper is “out-bushing Bush,” as Opposition Leader Bill Graham says.
Whereas several G8 leaders thought of the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon as outrageously disproportionate, Harper found it “measured.”
A Canadian prime minister thus did not utter a word of protest against the killing of eight Canadians, let alone of nearly 300 other people and the displacement of about 500,000 civilians and the destruction of civilian infrastructure.
It’s a line of thinking in which the only lives that matter, and the only territories worthy of immunity from violence, are American and Israeli.
This is the immoral calculus that’s at the heart of so much havoc in the world today. And it is this that Harper has committed Canada to, with little or no debate in Parliament or anywhere else.
Little or no debate? A national election doesn’t count?
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