CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER CONDEMNS OBAMA, WEST FOR NOT SUPPORTING ISRAEL
In a stunning rebuke of President Obama’s tepid calls for Israel to show “restraint” in response to daily rocket fire on Israeli civilian targets by Hamas terror redoubts in Gaza, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, long considered Israel’s best friend and strongest defender, all but condemned President Obama by name for what he regards as Washington’s irresolute support for Israel during its time of grave crisis.
In perhaps his most strongly worded statement to date, Prime
Minister Harper proclaimed that self defense is “not merely an Israeli
right” to be exercised only in the abstract, but an “Israeli obligation”
that must be defended by all Western nations.
“Failure by the international community to
condemn these reprehensible actions will encourage these terrorists to
continue their appalling actions,’’ Harper said in a rare Sunday
statement. “Canada calls on its allies and partners to recognize that
these terrorist acts [by Hamas] are unacceptable and that solidarity
with Israel is the best way of stopping the conflict.”
Forget about the U.S.-Israel relationship
being the bulwark of Israeli security, say some. Israel’s best friend
and staunchest defender is no longer found in Washington, but rather
in Ottawa.
Ending the war does not require Israeli
“restraint,” implies Harper. It demands the world declare that sole
responsibility for the terror of violence belongs with the terrorists.
It is Hamas, claims Harper, that is entirely responsible for the current
Israel-Hamas war. “It is evident,” Harper asserts, “that Hamas is
deliberately using human shields to further terror in the region,’’ and
he takes several swipes at the United Nations and the “international
community” for calling for Israeli restraint in the face of escalating
rocket fire aimed at murdering and maiming Israeli civilians.
“Canada mourns the death and suffering of
innocent civilians in Gaza. Responsibility rests solely with Hamas and
its allies, who launched and continue to feed this crisis,’’ he said.
Harper rejects outright calls coming from
both the White House and the UN that Israel agree to a negotiated
ceasefire with Hamas. Not only should Israel not agree to a ceasefire,
says Harper, Israel should continue her offensive until the
Iranian-backed terror group is “massively degraded,” if not eliminated
entirely. “Indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel are
terrorist acts, for which there is no justification.”
Next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu himself, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has clearly
emerged as Israel’s strongest and most unapologetic defender.
Speaking for Prime Minister Harper and
Canada’s government, Foreign Minister Baird vocalizes things that Israel
supporters no longer even fantasize about hearing from Washington, such
as, “There is no moral equivalency between a democratic state and a
terrorist organization” and that “Hamas militants hiding within its
civilian population is abominable.”
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