Can we trade Obama for Harper, eh?
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered a wonderful speech to the Knesset in Israel.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4WCvCTYHQM[/youtube]
As once Jewish businesses were boycotted some civil society leaders today call for a boycott of Israel. On some campuses, intellectualized arguments against Israeli policies thinly mask underlying realities such as the shunning of Israeli academics and the harassment of Jewish citizens. Most disgracefully of all, some actually call Israel an apartheid state.
During his pro-Israel speech Harper was heckled by Arab politicians—who can always be counted on to keep it classy—when he insisted Israel was not an apartheid state.
This is known as cognitive dissonance. These Arabs live in the only Democratic state in the middle east—a Jewish State, naturally—where they serve in the Knesset, and yet somehow Israel is an apartheid state.
Hey, I have a fab-u-lous idea. The Arabs who heckled Harper should move to the non-apartheid state of Syria, and enjoy all the benefits of fabled Arab hospitality.
I wonder how many Jewish politicians sit in parliaments and governing bodies in the Arab world and other Muslim countries. It’s ironic: Muslims in Israel are a member of a minority group — yet they enjoy more human rights and a quality of live than they could ever find (outside Israel) in the Middle East. Cognitive dissonance indeed!
Alright, about time someone got up and said what needed to be said.
The Knesset clearly represents representative democracy. Epitomizes it. In Canada the papers were not at all united in fulsome praise for Mr. Harper, but the comments sections, were loaded with condemnation. Does that mean anything? You bet.
Sorry Robert…he’s ours and we’re keeping him!!!