Justin Trudeau's Perfidious Justice

"Trudeau is trading Canada's bedrock principles of fairness and equality for a UN Security Council seat."
"By voting for a resolution co-sponsored by North Korea and Zimbabwe, he has entered a Faustian bargain with dictatorships that does not bode well for a free and democratic society."
"[Canada has ] joined the jackals."
"[This year’s vote change] is dramatic. If the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wanted to shift, it] could have moved from a No, as it voted last year with U.S., to an Abstain, as Australia voted. Instead, they jumped all the way to a Yes – for the first time in years and breaking bi-partisan tradition."
"[The resolution condemns Israel for 'occupying' [the] Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem and holiest sites of Judaism [and] ignores hundreds of Palestinian rockets just fired at Israelis."
Hillel Neuer, Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

"[Canada remains fully opposed to the] singling out [of Israel] and has voted against the vast majority of these yearly Israel-related votes [at the United Nations]."
"In keeping with Canada's long-standing position, it is important at this time to reiterate our commitment to a two-state solution and the equal rights and self-determination of all peoples."
Adam Austen, spokesman, Foreign Affairs Canada

"That neither this resolution nor any other currently being considered even acknowledge the obscene barrage of Palestinian-launched rockets and missiles raining down on Israel's civilian population reflects just how distorted and one-sided these resolutions are."
Joel Reitman, co-chair, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Canada

"[The vote is] a distressing departure not only from the Canadian voting record at the United Nations, but a betrayal of long-standing Canadian foreign policy that rejects prejudgement of the outcome of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians."
"Palestinian self-determination cannot come at the expense of Israel's security."
Jeff Rosenthal, co-chair, CIJA

A picture taken from the Palestinian village of Kifl Hares shows the Israeli Jewish settlement of Revava in the West Bank, Nov. 19, 2019.    Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images

As a course reversal, it is of little significance to this Liberal government with Justin Trudeau at the helm, but of monumental importance to Israel, which has few staunch friends as it is in the international community. That the Trudeau government took this step, however, is no big surprise. While giving lip service to befriending and supporting the Jewish state, it has been no secret that this is a half-hearted commitment by this government which has been adept at forgetting its moral conscience to political expedience whenever a conflict arises between appearing to 'do the right thing' and committing to the honourable direction.

Above all else, this is a government in deep practise of a new religious devotion; one that is seen to never waver on the side of 'social justice', irrespective of whether that social justice is contrived or a reflection of an authentic issue. Stripped of annoying little details that render data on background, historical precedents and the inclusion of all relevant facts, doing the 'right thing' is relatively simple...just go with the flow and if there is enough popular opinion based on the view of social justice through a 'progressive' lens that discreetly hovers on the razor's edge of hypocritical sanctimony that's then the direction to choose.

There is no justice much less even-handedness in the United Nations corridors of political conspiracy trumping truth when it comes to the critical issue of demonizing one state out of hundreds. No fewer than 21 condemnatory resolutions were introduced and passed against Israel at the United Nations last year, this year and every year, as opposed to a paltry 6 against any other UN member-countries, many of which regularly engage in spectacular human rights crimes of mass repression, persecution, conflict, ethnic cleansing and massive bloodshed.

Justin Trudeau prides himself on now and again up-ending democratic conventions and traditions in Canadian affairs. From surface delinking politically-appointed Senate members from presumed loyalty to political parties, to centralizing government in Canada to the detriment of some of its provinces; from freeing up entry to greater numbers of emigrants and refugees despite popular public opposition, to charming his way out of consequences for illegal and unethical personal practices as prime minister of a democratic nation.

That a Canadian prime minister would see fit to support a resolution sponsored by North Korea, Zimbabwe, the "State of Palestine", and others of similar questionable repute is a conscience-shocker, but obviously not a Trudeau conscience-shocker. That the resolution makes mention of the protective wall Israel was forced to construct separating it from the West Bank under the duress of countless lethal attacks on Israelis by Palestinians is referred to in the resolution as that it "severely impedes the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination", when in fact it severely impeded the ongoing slaughter of Israelis by Palestinians.

Peace offers from Israeli negotiators to Palestinian counterparts have always hit the roadblock of 'not enough', even when the offers have included all the demands put forward by the Palestinians. Having received assent that Israel is prepared to sacrifice much to achieve peace, Palestinian negotiators simply add on additional demands until it becomes apparent that nothing but the dissolution of the Jewish state will satisfy the Palestinians. More than adequately demonstrated by the Palestinian Authority's student curricula framing Jews as enemy occupiers, its celebration of 'martyrs' and pay-outs to terrorism-related atrocities targeting Jews and its refusal to return to the bargaining table.

The resolution, as all such resolutions do, passed handily with 164 countries voting for, including European countries for whom the 'nuisance' value of their citizens being perpetually under rocket siege has never been a problem. As for "Palestinian" land, heritage and indigenous status; there has never been any such reality. And repeating it endlessly will never make it so. The land, the heritage and indigenous status are all Judaic; denials aside. Jordan now occupies great swathes of Judaic heritage land. And Jordan also hosts 'Palestinian' Arabs at an estimated 60 percent of their population base. There is the Palestinian State, not on land where modern-day Israel sits.

The Hashemite Kingdom is yet another construct of the competing French-English colonialist powers in the Middle East seeking to mete out favours to allies, and to keep them from one another's throats, as occurred between the Hashemites and the Saudis, each claiming Arabia for their own, presenting Britain with a dilemma it solved at the expense of a future Jewish state. Britain dishonoured its own Balfour Declaration in the process, but when you are the occupying power you can do anything that is expedient. 

Claiming the West Bank in its entirety as 'Palestinian' when at the turn of the 20th Century and before only Jews were considered to be Palestinians, is a miscarriage of history and human events. The 'West Bank' has always been traditionally heritage Jewish land. Israelis are not colonialists; they are simply returning to their geographic roots. Willing to live among Palestinians, while the Palestinian Authority has made it abundantly clear that Jews will never be accepted as neighbours living in close geographic proximity to Arabs. And therein lies the crux of the matter.