POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
While I don't support the death penalty anywhere, I do find
it interesting that Harper speaks out so forcefully against Iran in this
matter.
I contrast it with Israel's treatment of a Canadian officer
doing his UN observation duty in Southern Lebanon: he was targeted and
deliberately killed by Israeli forces during its savage assault of the region.
Harper's only public response then was the lame asking why
the UN had put him there.
In these two events we see with complete clarity the
prejudice towards special interests of our foreign policy today.
In one case a man bravely dying at his post in our honorable
peacekeeping tradition was not honored by the leader of our country, and,
indeed, his killers were never even questioned or in any way challenged.
In the other case, Harper makes big noises about a state
which hasn't yet carried out the verdict of a legal trial.
Unfortunately the death penalty for serious espionage is
fairly common practice in the world, so Iran would not be out of line here.
One suspects and hopes they will reduce his sentence, but
espionage is not a game. It has serious consequences, and with Iran being
unfairly attacked day after day by Israel's mad leader and by the United States
and by a compliant Canada and others under pressure, Iran is naturally more
concerned than ever with such acts.
America's worst modern spy, Jonathon Pollard, who gave away
some of America's crown jewels to Israel, who in turn sold them to Russia -
would certainly have been executed but for the Israeli connection.
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‘"..............Foreign
Affairs Department said it is reaching out to "like-minded" countries
...."
‘You mean Israel and
the US?’
Well said.
Although I strongly suspect the reaching went in the other
direction: Harper is a totally spineless man towards either of these
bloody-minded states.
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“But Iran is not a
normal country. Think of what Iranians did to the US embassy and its staff.”
The embassy?
That's a quarter century ago.
Do you characterize any other country by what someone in it
did a quarter century ago?
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'Al Jazeera interview
with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Dan Meridor, in which Meridor admits that
the Israelis misquoted Ahmadinejad's supposed quote about wiping out Israel.
This is a misrepresentation that Netenyahu has used constantly, including
speeches made before US legislators, on US cable networks and while in
Canada....
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2012/04/2012413151613293582.html
'Little wonder Sarkozy
was overheard saying of Netenyahu "I can't stand him. He's a liar."'
Yes, thank you.
Both points are absolutely spot on.
I would add that not just Sarkozy, largely a friend of
Israel's, said that but Obama spoke to the effect: "Tell me about it. I
have deal with him every day."
Obama's addition is very telling evidence when anyone wants
to discuss the inordinate and inappropriate influence of Israel in the United
States.
The leader of a tiny country of 7 million gets access to the
President "every day"?
And in that access he gets to lie without ever being
reproved?
How is that possible?
The Lobby, and its critical campaign finance contributions.
Just the arrangement Harper daily works towards establishing
in Canada by making parties more dependent on private contributions - eliminating
government support for parties - and by grooming the special interest groups,
especially that of Israel's apologists, regularly.
It's not a bright outlook for fairness or decency in our
policy, two things completely missing from the foreign policy of the United
States for some years now.
