In the 1990s, I did consulting work in Canada on development issues in the Middle East. I traveled to Ottawa frequently and I used to run into Canadian diplomats and officials. Canada was a different place at the time. Diplomats would publicly complain about the Zionism of the US government. This is Canada today: ""We contend that modern anti-Semitism lives in the disproportionate criticism Israel receives, and the refusal to accept its right to exist," Baird said. "The world cannot take the words of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran as mere rhetoric and risk appeasing these malicious actors in the same way the world appeased the Nazis.… Under our prime minister, and under this foreign minister, Canada will stand with the Jewish state and people as they struggle to protect their very right to exist."
Friday, May 25, 2012
Canada's new Zionism
In the 1990s, I did consulting work in Canada on development issues in the Middle East. I traveled to Ottawa frequently and I used to run into Canadian diplomats and officials. Canada was a different place at the time. Diplomats would publicly complain about the Zionism of the US government. This is Canada today: ""We contend that modern anti-Semitism lives in the disproportionate criticism Israel receives, and the refusal to accept its right to exist," Baird said. "The world cannot take the words of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran as mere rhetoric and risk appeasing these malicious actors in the same way the world appeased the Nazis.… Under our prime minister, and under this foreign minister, Canada will stand with the Jewish state and people as they struggle to protect their very right to exist."
