By Failing Canada, We Failed Ourselves

JINSA
Report #: 1,037
10 November '10

Sometimes, you just have to stand back and say, "Oh."

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, speaking at a conference of international parliamentarians and experts attending a conference on combating anti-Semitism, told the assembled that Canada refused to "pretend" to be an "honest broker" on Israel, even though it meant losing its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council. Canada had been elected to the Security Council in every decade since the inception of the UN until this one - a loss attributed to the Islamic bloc being unhappy with Harper's outspoken support for Israel, as well as to a failure of the United States to lobby on Canada's behalf. We'll get to the U.S. position in a minute, but Prime Minister Harper's words on anti-Semitism and Israel should be read:

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