‘An attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada’
Peter Kent, Toronto
Photo credit Scarborough – Guildwood Conservative Association
By Steven Chase | Globe and Mail | February 16, 2010
Junior Foreign Affairs minister Peter Kent is suggesting Canada stands ready to throw its full military weight behind Israel, telling a Toronto publication that “an attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada.”
His office says Mr. Kent, the minister of state for Foreign Affairs of the Americas, was merely “paraphrasing” what Stephen Harper has said in the past regarding Israel.
“It’s not too far from what the [Prime Minister] has said,” Norm McIntosh, Mr. Kent’s chief of staff, told The Globe.
But the junior minister’s statement would appear to be evidence that the Harper government is shifting to an ever more solidly pro-Israel stance.
Mr. McIntosh declined to confirm whether this means that Canada would automatically declare war on an aggressor that attacked Israel.
In an interview published in Shalom Life, dated Feb. 12, Mr. Kent said: “Prime Minister Harper has made it quite clear for some time now and has regularly stated that an attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada.”
Mr. McIntosh pointed to Mr. Harper’s statements from May, 2008, marking the 60th anniversary of Israel, where the Prime Minister said: “Our government believes that those who threaten Israel also threaten Canada, because, as the last world war showed, hate-fuelled bigotry against some is ultimately a threat to us all, and must be resisted wherever it may lurk.”
“In this ongoing battle, Canada stands side-by-side with the State of Israel, our friend and ally in the democratic family of nations,” Mr. Harper said. “We have stood with Israel even when it has not been popular to do so, and we will continue to stand with Israel, just as I have always said we would.”
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The army, or a part of it at the war college, has perked up and noticed some of the lessons of the Ukraine war, and that it’s a war that the US military could not fight. They’ve missed a lot of things, or felt they couldn’t/shouldn’t write about them, but they’ve figured some stuff out and written about them in a new report, “A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force” by Lieutenant Colonel Katie Crombe, and Professor John A. Nagle.
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This remark, which is the kind of thinking that paves the way for extremists to get the kind of full-scale regional war they seem to want, underscores the urgency of thinking seriously about the national security implications of the current Palestinian-Israeli mess and the possible solutions.
I see five possible solutions, with widely varying and very serious security implications, not just for Israel and Palestine, but also for the whole Mideast and for the course of the Western confrontation with activist Islam. The solutions are one-state democracy, two states, Palestinian Bantustan, Jordan Becomes Palestine, and Catastrophe (see “Palestine & Global Security” at http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5584.shtml).
At the moment Catastrophe appears to be getting more likely every day, as the leaders of Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Hamas, and Syria have all recently warned. Kent’s remark just throws gasoline on the fire.
The time was when we in the U.S. could look to Canada for a bit of friendly words to the wise to temper our tendency toward emotional superficiality. In case the Canadian government has not noticed, Obama could use that kind of help today. Too bad it no longer appears to be available.
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If ever there was a brainless statement by a politician at a time when the country he is trying to give solidarity support to is perceived as the most criminal in terms of its policies, both domestic and foreign; the latest being the alleged assassination of the Hamas official in Dubai, it it the above title..
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In other words, the Jews have bought a few more cheat ass, treasonous politicians.
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PM HARPER & THE CANADIAN GOV’T. ARE A MORAL BEACON!!!!
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