Israel's Most Enthusiastic Sycophant Acts More Like An Ass Than An Asset

Recent demonstrations of arrogance and a sense political omnipotence, though, have exploded this illusion. Two events in particular--one of which was utterly avoidable--have exposed the The Lobby’s controlling influence in Ottawa, and helped undermine the tenuous régime of Israel’s proconsul Stephen Harper. Conspicuous Laryngitis The avoidable event occurred in mid-January after the Lobby yanked too hard on Foreign Minion Maxime Bernier’s choke chain. During a press conference in Ramallah, Palestine, Bernier said Canada generally opposes any expansion of Jewish colonies in the West Bank, but refused to make any specific comment on the new construction taking place at the Har Homa colony on the site of the Arab village Jebel abu Ghneim. Bernier’s omission caused a bit of a stir since it seemed to suggest that the Harper régime was tacitly repudiating Canadian law: *UN Security Council Resolution 242, which deems Israel’s entire occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights to be illegal, is a cornerstone of Canada’s Middle East policy; *any zionist construction on any occupied Arab land is therefore illegal by definition; *Har Homa is a zionist construction project; *Therefore, Bernier had no reason to avoid condemning it since he had already affirmed. http://canada.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/49707

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