Just Desserts, Alas

It's really sad when someone with a distinguished reputation and record as a human-rights defender such as Liberal MP Irwin Cotler qualifies as, sees himself tarnished by association with an entity whose record has been found wanting. Which is to say allying himself as a political Liberal, and enthusiastically supporting the Liberal Party of Canada; running for election as a Liberal, and sitting in Parliament as a Liberal Member of Parliament.

Throwing in his political lot with the Liberals, associating with them, trusting them, and representing them. All the while knowing how abysmal Canada's record has been within the United Nations in upholding the rights, freedoms and reputation of another democracy. Choosing to abstain, rather than voting against regular votes to condemn the State of Israel, placed on the agenda by a human-rights-abusing coterie of Arab and Muslim states and their associates.

That Mr. Cotler now takes hurt umbrage at the Conservative-led Government of Canada pointing out to an ethnic minority that the Conservatives have done far more to defend universal human rights in general and Israel's right to protest slanderous accusations against it in particular, with support from her democratic friends, is unfortunate. The targeted ten-percenters have been a reflection of reality.

It has traditionally been the Liberal Party of Canada that has gone out of its way to court Canada's ethnic minorities for compelling electoral support expressed at the ballot box. Now that the Conservatives had decided that this is an appealing way to boost their own popularity they have far outdistanced the Liberals, but in an honourable way, absent from the Liberal agenda of internal association with ethnics devoted to violent foreign causes.

It has been the Liberal MPs who have been front and centre in attending Tamil Tiger events within Canada, and separatist Sikh fundamentalist celebrations, along with protest marches within Canada in vociferous support of terror groups in the Middle East. While it has been the Conservatives who have expressed regret for past human rights abuses within Canada targeting Canadian immigrants from abroad.

And it is beyond dispute that Canada unilaterally and determinedly withdrew from participation in Durban II based on the gathering storm of Israel-Zionist-Jew bashing emanating from the agenda put forward by the very same human-rights-abusing nations that had previously slandered Israel at Durban I as a racist, human-rights-abusing country intent on local genocide.

If the well-respected Member of Parliament, Mr. Cotler, is upset at the damage he is convinced has been done to his reputation he should turn away from blaming the Conservatives and instead indulge in some introspection: why he would ally himself and his reputation with a party as blatantly unconcerned with anti-Semitism on the world stage as is the Liberal Party of Canada.

On the observable record.