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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   On 20/01/2014 11:50 AM, ConɀƦConɀ wrote:   
   > How fitting.  Imagine this excuse for a prime minister 'warning Israel   
   > about rising anti-semitism'. He's in the nastiest piece of work on the   
   > planet: Israel.   
   > And jews never need to be warned about semitism. Where it doesn't exist,   
   > they will say it does. Covers their tracks of oppression, aggression,   
   > killings and theft.   
   > And listen to Harper's own version of paranoia in his words . . . .   
   > ___________________________________________   
   > Postmedia News January 20, 2014   
   >   
   >   
   > Stephen Harper warns of anti-Semitism in speech to Israeli Knesset, is   
   > briefly heckled   
   >   
   >   
   > JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Stephen Harper Monday warned that a dangerous   
   > new form of anti-Semitism has emerged and said the globe has a moral and   
   > strategic objective to rally around Israel as a haven for Jews.   
   >   
   > Even as Harper delivered the message in a historic speech to the   
   > Knesset, Israel’s legislature of elected politicians, two Knesset   
   > members heckled him, then walked out. One was Arab-Israeli politician   
   > Ahmad Tibi, who has in the past called on Canadians to boycott companies   
   > and products linked to Israeli towns built in the West Bank and other   
   > occupied lands.   
   >   
   > In response to the brief protest, the rest of the Knessett repeatedly   
   > and enthusiastically applauded Harper.   
   >   
   > It is the first time a Canadian prime minister has spoken to the assembly.   
   >   
   > In his wide-ranging, bluntly worded address, Harper made it clear why   
   > his government has formulated a pro-Israel policy.   
   >   
   > “Those who often begin by hating the Jews, history shows us, end up   
   > hating anyone who is not them,” said Harper.   
   >   
   > “Those forces, which have threatened the state of Israel every single   
   > day of its existence and which, today, as 9-11 graphically showed us,   
   > threaten us all.”   
   >   
   > “And so either we stand up for our values and our interests here in   
   > Israel and stand up for the existence of a free, democratic and   
   > distinctively Jewish state or the retreat of our values and our   
   > interests in the world will begin.”   
   >   
   > Harper said Canada finds it “deplorable” that some in the international   
   > community still question the legitimacy of Israel’s existence.   
   >   
   > “Our view on Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is absolute and   
   > non-negotiable.”   
   >   
   > Harper said that he refuses to single out Israel for criticism on the   
   > international stage, arguing that such action is not a “balanced”   
   > approach to foreign policy, and is, in fact “weak and wrong.”   
   >   
   > “We live in a world where that kind of moral relativism runs rampant.   
   > And in the garden of such moral relativism, the seeds of much more   
   > sinister notions can be easily planted.   
   >   
   > “And so we have witnessed, in recent years, the mutation of the old   
   > disease of anti-Semitism and the emergence of a new strain.”   
   >   
   > Harper said the old-anti-Semitism was “crude and ignorant, and it led to   
   > the horrors of the death camps” in Nazi Germany in the 1940s.   
   >   
   > “Of course, in many dark corners, it is still with us. But, in much of   
   > the western world, the old hatred has been translated into more   
   > sophisticated language for use in polite society.   
   >   
   > “People who would never say they hate and blame the Jews for their own   
   > failings or the problems of the world instead declare their hatred of   
   > Israel and blame the only Jewish state for the problems of the Middle   
   > East.”   
   >   
   > The prime minister added that whereas there was once a time when Jewish   
   > businesses were boycotted, some “civil-society leaders” now call for a   
   > boycott on Israel.   
   >   
   > “On some campuses, intellectualized arguments against Israeli policies   
   > thinly mask the underlying realities such as the shunning of Israeli   
   > academics and the harassment of Jewish students.”   
   >   
   > Harper said it is a disgrace that some people openly call Israel an   
   > apartheid state. He condemned the “twisted logic and outright malice”   
   > behind that attack.   
   >   
   > “A state, based on freedom, democracy and the rule of law that was   
   > founded so Jews can flourish, as Jews, and seek shelter from the shadow   
   > of the worst racist experiment in history that is condemned, and that   
   > condemnation is masked in the language of anti-racism.”   
   >   
   > “It is nothing short of sickening. It targets the Jewish people by   
   > targeting Israel and attempts to make the old bigotry acceptable for a   
   > new generation.”   
   >   
   > Harper is in the Middle East for a week-long trip that will bring him to   
   > Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. He is meeting leaders in all those   
   > areas and is accompanied by a large delegation of cabinet ministers,   
   > Conservative backbench MPs, business leaders, and members of the   
   > Canadian Jewish community.   
   >   
   > In his speech to the Knesset, he made it clear that although his   
   > government is pro-Israeli, it also favors a resolution to the   
   > long-standing conflict over land between the Israelis and Palestinians.   
   >   
   > “Our commitment as Canadians to what is right, fair and just is a   
   > universal one. It applies no less to the Palestinian people, than it   
   > does to the people of Israel.   
   >   
   > “Just as we unequivocally support Israel’s right of self-defence, so too   
   > Canada has long-supported a just and secure future for the Palestinian   
   > people.   
   >   
   > “We share with Israel a sincere hope that the Palestinian people and   
   > their leaders will choose a viable, democratic, Palestinian state,   
   > committed to living peacefully alongside the Jewish state of Israel.”   
   >   
   > Meanwhile, Harper was critical of how Israel is routinely “targeted” at   
   > the United Nations, speaking of how in its 65-year history, the Israel   
   > has endured “attacks and slanders” and has never known a true day of   
   peace.   
   >   
   > “We understand that Israelis live with this impossible calculus: If you   
   > act to defend yourselves, you will suffer widespread condemnation, over   
   > and over again. But should you fail to act, you alone will suffer the   
   > consequence of your inaction and that consequence will be final — your   
   > destruction.   
   Israel has a freely elected Parliament or Knesset so ppl are allowed to   
   heckle who disagree with the speaker. The 23% of the Israeli pop. who   
   are Arabs have the same voting rights as the Jews. This compares to the   
   thug dictatorships of Egypt and Syria on her borders.   
      
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