The Spectator
25 May '11
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6968800/and-now-those-who-are-on-the-side-of-civilisation.thtml
In these terrible times when western elites are dominated by the fellow-travellers of Islamo-fascism and genocidal Judeophobia, it is very important to realise that there are also some outstandingly decent, courageous and rational individuals who are putting their heads above the parapet and speaking up for Israel, truth and justice.
One such is Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Within a few hours of Obama’s call for Israel to return to the ‘Auschwitz borders’ with land swaps (as if the Arabs really do own all the territory beyond the Green Line, which legally, historically and morally they most emphatically do not) Harper was saying ‘not in our name’:
The Harper government is refusing to join the United States in calling for a return to 1967 borders as a starting point for Mideast peace, a position that has drawn sharp criticism from Canada’s staunch ally Israel.
At a briefing ahead of the upcoming G8 summit in France, federal officials said the basis for the negotiations must be mutually agreed upon. ‘What the government of Canada supports is basically a two-state solution that is negotiated,’ a senior federal official said.
...The Prime Minister’s director of communications, Dimitri Soudas, added that Canada’s position continues to be the search for a two-state solution. ‘No solution, ultimately, is possible without both parties sitting down, negotiating and agreeing on what that final outcome will look like,’ he said.
Then there’s Col Richard Kemp, formerly commander of British forces in Afghanistan and who has previously spoken up in Israel’s defence during Operation Cast Lead and to the Goldstone commission. At a recent Bicom conference in London, he delivered this tremendous address. Please do read it all, but here’s a sample:
This malevolent portrayal of the Israeli Defence Forces is carefully and systematically planned, cultivated, developed, expanded and relentlessly driven forward. It is the key part of what amounts to nothing less than a pernicious and increasingly dangerous global conspiracy of propaganda aimed at the total delegitimization of the state of Israel. A conspiracy that has so far exceeded in its international scope, anything dreamt of even by that master of propaganda, Dr Josef Goebbels himself, spreading the idea that Israel is so evil that it has no right even to exist, aiming for the point where that idea becomes an acceptable, mainstream argument in our societies.
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