Canadian Liberal Scruples

"It's just easier not to rock the boat when the crowd is all going one way. It's hard to be the only one going the other direction. But standing alone on behalf of American interests and values is not something to be embarrassed by."
"Standing alone for freedom and human dignity is something to be proud of. In America we don't celebrate the mob. We celebrate the person who has the courage and conviction to stand up to the mob."
"Now we're seeing an example of this cultural corruption playing out in real time."
"...Canada is now seeking one of the rotating two-year seats on the Security Council. It faces a vote in the General Assembly. Two weeks ago, Canada surprised Israel's friends by voting for a North Korean resolution that challenges the legitimacy of Israel. This is a resolution that Canadian governments for years have voted against."
"One observer said Canada is making a 'Faustian bargain', trading its integrity for a seat on the Security Council."
"I speak from experience when I say the United Nations presents many such opportunities to strike a deal with the devil."
Nikki Haley, former American Ambassador to the United Nations

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, author of the new book 'With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace'

Speaking as a special guest of U.N.Watch in New York at a gala event, Nikki Haley was as frank as usual, emphasizing loyalty and principles. Her performance as the American representative to the United Nations was both principled and loyal to democratic values which recognized the State of Israel as a democratic ally in the Middle East, one whose right to exist is unqualified, yet which must be ever on alert to forestall deadly attacks against its citizens. Its neighbours, Palestinians and the leadership of the Palestinian Authority have never stopped contesting Israel's legitimacy and inciting violent attacks against Israeli citizens.

Israel, long isolated and threatened in the Middle East, surrounded by hostile Islamic countries ruled by despots, royalty and oil sheikdoms had never had the luxury of relaxing its vigilance against an unending series of conflicts, both state-sponsored all-out wars and ongoing militant attacks by those non-state militias recognized by civilized nations as terrorist groups. Making it all the more vital to Israel that sister-democracies of the Western world in North America and Europe support her right to exist as a normal country whose legitimacy goes unchallenged.

Until recently, until the advent of the Liberal-led government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau so wedded to his Lib-left 'progressive' values, Canada has for the most part been one of the stalwart supporters of Israel; never more so than under the previous Conservative-led administration of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Last month the Liberal government leading Canada into its second term performed a radical about-face.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the UN Security Council September 24, 2014. Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird listens in at left. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

That government saw fit to vote 'yes' for a resolution named "The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination", which had been sponsored by North Korea, Egypt Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and the "State of Palestine". This nascent state has done all it possibly could within the United Nations and internationally by a massive public relations campaign aided and abetted by expatriate Palestinians to infiltrate its corridors beyond observer status, leveraging itself as a 'state-in-waiting' to be given full accreditation.

This is the Palestinian Authority agenda, to marginalize Israel wherever it can, through casting doubt on its legitimacy, through claiming that Israel's military 'occupies' the West Bank and Gaza, victimizing Palestinians, while Palestinian Arabs are enjoined to 'resist' the 'occupation' by launching violent attacks against Israeli civilians, and are paid handsomely to respond to that incitement. Dedicated to declaring themselves 'victims' and 'refugees', the PA exists on foreign handouts making no effort to become self-reliant and self-supporting.

Through a campaign of global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, the PA has portrayed itself and its citizens as suffering under the heel of a repressive, violent neighbour, when in fact Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank can thank their leaders for the repressed, violent and oppressive states they live under which blame Israel. In the United Nations the non-aligned nations and the voting bloc of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation can be relied upon to support the 'State of Palestine' and to slander and isolate Israel.

Hillel Neuer ✔ @HillelNeuer

Trudeau is trading Canada's bedrock principles of fairness & equality for a UN Security Council seat. By voting for a resolution co-sponsored by North Korea & Zimbabwe, he has entered a Faustian bargain with dictatorships that does not bode well for a free & democratic society.

It is these groups with their detestation of Western values that the government of Justin Trudeau on behalf of Canada has chosen to ally itself with, all in the hope of receiving votes to elect Canada to the rotating arm of the Security Council. Justin Trudeau made the decision to abandon its support for Israel which under his administration has had little depth to begin with, to vote for the resolution sponsored by some of the world's most corrupt and notorious human-rights offenders.

Flags at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Damzou, Wikipedia

In so doing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau felt entitled to call for an end "to the Israeli occupation" and once again assaulted Canada's southern neighbour by defending the statement's description of the United States, Canada's neighbour, trading partner and reliable defender as "the occupying Power". Anyone else would feel shame, be contrite, apologize and explain it was all an error in judgement of which he is notoriously guilty at the best of times.

Not Justin Trudeau, for he is infallible and no criticism can ever come his way, over the many instances of his lavish displays of contempt for others he considers his lessers, of negligence in decision-making that borders on the illegal, despite a number of formal disciplinary actions holding him to account, and not for the countless instances of misjudgement where his theatrical, juvenile stunts have embarrassed the Canadian community.

"If we want to talk about security in the Middle East, we should talk about Iran or Syria or Hezbollah or Hamas or ISIS or the famine in Yemen."
"There are about ten major problems facing the Middle East, and Israel doesn’t have anything to do with any of them."
Nikki Haley