Justin Trudeau’s anti-Israel vote at the U.N. is a “betrayal” but not, alas, surprising. When it comes to Israel, Trudeau is no Stephen Harper. He’s now shown he is willing to join the jackals.
The story is here:
Top Jewish groups in Canada have expressed disappointment after the country voted in favor of an anti-Israel UN General Assembly resolution earlier this week.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), the advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada, called the move a “betrayal.”
“It contradicted explicit commitments made by liberal candidates during the recent election to maintain the principled opposition to the twenty annual resolutions whose sole purpose is to isolate and delegitimize Israel,” said CIJA co-chairs Joel Reitman and Jeffrey Rosenthal.
Since 2006, both conservative and liberal Canadian governments had rejected the resolution in question, which comes up for a vote annually.
Sponsored by North Korea, Egypt, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and the Palestinian Authority, the resolution called for “an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967” and the preservation of “territorial unity, contiguity and integrity of all of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.” It also criticized Israel’s West Bank security barrier.
Israel in 1967 did not begin an “occupation” of the West Bank. It began to enforce its preexisting legal right to the West Bank, which was, according to the Mandate for Palestine, part of the territory that was supposed to become the Jewish National Home.
As for the “contiguity” of some future Palestinian entity, that is linking Gaza and the West Bank, that could only be achieved by cutting Israel in two. Is that what Justin Trudeau wants Canada to support?
And the resolution deplores Israel’s security barrier without even a syllable about the Arab terrorist attacks that that barrier was supposed to prevent, and very largely has done so.
B’nai Brith Canada slammed Canada’s backing of the measure.
“In our view, the core of the conflict remains the refusal by Palestinian leaders and their supporters to recognize the Jewish People’s indigenous ties to the Land of Israel,” said B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn. “This is what the UN — and Canada — should be condemning.”
The “core of the conflict” is even more disturbing than Michael Mostyn states. It is not merely the refusal to recognize the Jewish People’s ties to the Land of Israel, but also reflects the refusal of Muslims and Arabs to accept that any land that was once ruled by Muslims should be ruled by anyone else, and especially by the “despised and hated Jews.”(Qur’an 2:65).
“We call on Canada and the rest of the international community to press the Palestinian Authority to return to the negotiating table, and to stop harmful practices such as rewarding terrorists and their families,” he added.
If Mahmoud Abbas still refuses to return to the negotiating table, despite all the imprecations from world leaders, including the Saudi Crown Prince, he is unlikely to do so now. Why should he, when at the U.N. Canada has “betrayed” the Jewish state by voting for an anti-Israel resolution, one it had voted against for the past two decades? Such a switch gives him hope that he will win more at the U.N. by standing fast in his refusal to negotiate with Israel. And if Abbas has continued the Pay-For-Slay program, despite seeing a reduction in the funds transferred by Israel to the PA in the exact amount that is included in that Pay-For-Slay program, he’s not going to care what Canadian Jewish leader Michael Mostyn, or anyone else, says.
Meryle Kates, executive director of the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs Canada, wrote her group was “stunned and disheartened” that Canada has joined “oppressive regimes like North Korea to condemn Israel at the UN.”
“The resolution harshly criticizes Israel’s security barrier, with no acknowledgement that it was built to stop a brutal wave of suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians during the Second Intifada,” she noted. “It makes no mention of the 450+ rockets fired at Israel earlier this month by the Islamic Jihad terrorist group. It also effectively labels the Western Wall and Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem ‘occupied Palestinian territory,’ denying the history and rights of the Jewish people to the holiest site in Judaism.”
Liberal MK Michael Levitt expressed his concern about the vote on Facebook, arguing that UN anti-Israel resolutions “unfairly singled out Israel of [sic] condemnation, ignoring the crimes being perpetrated by many of the resolutions’ sponsors.”
“For example,” he pointed out, “Assad’s Syria was the subject of just one resolution, compared to eight targeting Israel. The situation in Venezuela, where the illegal Maduro regime is starving millions of Venezuelans and causing the largest refugee crisis in our hemisphere’s history, was entirely ignored.”
Michael Levitt could also have noted that all five sponsors of the anti-Israel resolution — Venezuela, North Korea, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, the Palestinian Authority (a quasi-state) – are among the world’s worst police states.
Israel has long been the favorite whipping-boy at the U.N. Most of us are aware of that, but few realize just how extraordinarily lopsided has been the attention focused on, and the denunciation of, the Jewish state. Of the 26 resolutions the General Assembly tabled this fall, 20 condemn Israel. Meanwhile, the police states of Iran, North Korea, and a handful of others have this year had one condemning resolution each. The disproportionate focus on Israel is also evident in both the Security Council and the U.N. Human Rights Commission (UNHCR). Just between 1967 and 1989, the UN Security Council adopted 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab–Israeli conflict, all of which were critical of Israel. And there were many more anti-Israel resolutions at the Security Council that would have been adopted, had not the United States exercised its veto. Since 2006, when the UNHCR was founded, 46% of its resolutions have been about Israel, almost as many as for the entire rest of the world. Yet Israel is a democracy, with a strong human rights record and an independent judiciary that zealously guards human rights. Arab Israelis have full legal equality with Jewish ones; Arabs serve in the Knesset, in the upper echelons of the diplomatic corps, on the Supreme Court, and even — but only if they so desire — in the IDF, with some Arabs having risen to the rank of Major.
It is in this U.N environment that Canada, like other Western nations, has generally, though not always, voted against the most outrageous anti-Israel resolutions. But now, under Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, Canada has apparently chosen to side with the Arabs and Muslims.
The sudden shift by Canada raised questions about whether the vote was a response to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration on Monday that Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank did not violate international law.
One Canadian government official confirmed that the move was meant to send a message to the US.
If the Canadian government takes issue with Secretary Pompeo’s statement that Israeli settlements “do not violate international law,” it need not have “sent a message” by wrongly joining in the latest gang-up against Israel at the U.N. It has other ways – they are called diplomatic channels – to express its disagreement with American policy. Canada’s Foreign Ministry could, if it wished, make public a statement taking issue with Secretary Pompeo. No need to bash Israel at the U.N. to “send a message” to Washington. And how good it would be if the Canadians charged with responding to Secretary Pompeo would surprise us all, by first studying carefully the legal status of those settlements. They should read the Mandate for Palestine and study the Mandate maps. They will discover that the West Bank was always included in the territory that was assigned under the Mandate for Palestine to constitute the Jewish National Home. They will further learn that Jordan was juridically the “occupying power” in the West Bank from 1948 to 1967, and that Israel had as much legal right to the West Bank as it did to Tel Aviv or Haifa or Ashdod. Only after the Six-Day War, however, was it possible for Israel to enforce that pre-existing legal right.
Rumors also circulated that Canada’s last-minute switch was meant to curry favor with Arab states as the country vies for a seat on the UN Security Council in 2020.
This strikes one as altogether likely. Matters of morality mean little for the likes of Justin Trudeau, the self-aggrandizer who wants Canada — and thus himself – to play a larger role on the world stage. If he has to secure Arab and Muslim support for a Canadian seat on the U.N. Security Council by being among those throwing Israel to the wolves, he’s ready to do it.
“This resolution will do nothing to bring Israelis and Palestinians together for peace talks,” Kates said. “All it does is harm the Canadian government’s moral standing at home and abroad.”
One would like to think that this vote will indeed harm the Trudeau’s government’s “moral standing,” but so few, other than committed supporters of Israel, are paying attention to matters of morality at the U.N., and to the monstrousness of Canada’s last-minute vote change on that U.N. vote. Many people are inured to, seem almost to accept as a given, even if they don’t themselves approve, the great unfairness at the U.N. toward Israel. It is that mistreatment of Israel that former Ambassador Nikki Haley denounced so eloquently and ferociously at the U.N. during her time at the General Assembly and, one hopes, will continue to do so, from an even bullier pulpit, if she runs, as so many are hoping, for President in 2024.
FYI says
Is that picture really Justin Trudeau?
It is just that..it is so hard to recognize him without his …Afro wig and Blacked up face{on THREE,count them,THREE occasions}
Justin Trudeau clearly has that lucky quality that the Lefties and the muslims like Omar Tlaib and Sarsour are always going on about:White Privilege.
Clearly he has the favor of the political gods who run the show and coupled with what the Lefties say is White Privilege:Lucky Justin!
Oh to have some of that White Privilege Justin has…
mortimer says
Jihadi Justin dressed like a BLACK EUNUCH working in the Sultan’s harem! (Is that his fantasy?)
Pretty sick and pretty racist. Jihadi Justin dressed as a CASTRATED BLACK SLAVE. No one seems to have understood the hideously cruel meaning of his costume and choice.
And … yes … he knew!
He studied the Sociology of Education in 1997 and was FULLY informed about racism and privilege. The BLACK EUNUCH dressup occurred in 2001.
FYI says
Justin Trudeau needs to come out of the closet and admit his secret desire has always been to be …a black guy.
Frank Anderson says
J.T. does not appear to be adept at keeping secrets.
Frank Anderson says
I’m sorry to observe the Canadian UN vote is just the start. Loading the country with invaders while giving them votes and huge sums of money knowing full well what they teach and practice concerning Jews proves the utter self-destructive direction of open border liberalism. There will be more. There will be worse. With a constitution that can change with a simple vote in parliament, what are delusionally believed to be basic rights can be gone the instant enough people in parliament use their power to take them away, including not only the “right” of free speech, but also the right to life itself. If anyone believes it can’t happen, or won’t happen, read a little history. I wish better for all presently civilized countries who are headed hell-bent to becoming uncivilized.
mortimer says
Trudeau’s government is handing huge sums of cash to jihadist front organizations. They are in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Jews who voted for the Libjihad party were working against their own self-interest.
Frank Anderson says
honored Mortimer, sounds very familiar. Will they see the light when they are loaded in the railroad cars?
Frank Anderson says
Mortimer, are you familiar with the story of Chaim Romkowski (phonetic spelling) who ran a Nazi ghetto only to find out what “transportation to the East” meant when he took the ride? He was one of the episodes shown in Hitler’s Collaborators.
Tom says
This action by Trudeau is not a surprised to those of us who have come to know Trudeau’s ways.
From his declaration of Canada being a post national state, to him saying to an audience that he admires the Communist Chinese government, to his governments support for the motion M-103, an anti Islamophobia paper that ended up with his government giving $25,000,000 to Islamic organizations, to his support for Islamic Relief, an Islamic charity that is well known for filtering much of the funds it raises to known terror groups like Hamas, and on and on it goes with Trudeau.
So his government turning its back on Israel is not a surprise with Trudeau at the helm.
Trudeau and his government are propped up by millennials and those who see him as a cool person and don’t see, or are wilfully blind to his dangerous progressivism that enables Islamists to grow power and control within his government.
This vote against Israel is proof of Muslim Brotherhood control within our Canadian government.
Trick_or_Treat says
Poor bugger USA, …at least we here in Australia are fortunate to be blessed with a substantial body of water border separating us from our ratbag muslim neighbours to our North (….and those damn Kiwi cousins to the East) …and even those strange Tasmanian siblings at arm’s length to the South.
RonaldB says
Israeli policy towards the West Bank and Palestinian areas is an internal matter. It should not be the concern of other national or international governing bodies. The US and Canada should not be in the position of approving, or disapproving, such Israel actions as settlements, the separation wall, annexation of the Golan Heights or the way they deal with wanna-be suicide bombers. Israel should make the choices, and live with the consequences.
Should we be unfortunate enough to have Nikki Haley as President in 2024, undoubtedly we can look forward to even more troops fighting sinkhole wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and heavy US involvement in local affairs in the Middle East, affecting actual US security not at all.
However, it is entirely legitimate for the US and Canada to oppose the globalist, one-sided resolutions in the UN, which is pretty much controlled by the 56-nation OIC (Organization for Islamic Cooperation). A much better response would be to leave the UN entirely. Nothing good can come from throwing money and power at the inefficient, corrupt, unaccountable UN bureaucracy. The only function the UN has ever served for the US was serving as a cover for coalitions the US wished to form. A perfect example is the Korean War. Right now, the UN is pretty much a shill for the Islamic states, except where the US bestirs itself to threaten to cut off the posh funding of UN functionaries.
Trick_or_Treat says
Nikki Haley comes across as absolutely outstanding Presidential material for 2024. Certainly far better than any of the other anti-Christ, pro- islamic jihad agenda, LBGTI, PC ‘woke’, mentally leftarded swamp plankton on offer.
Outshines them all by stellar magnitudes x billions.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Canadian Jewry is having to work HARDER THAN EVER to counter anti-Semitism because of Jihadi Justin’s anti-Semitic allies. Canadian Jews have been too afraid to say openly what is happening. Muslims have a canonical teaching of Jew hatred. Jews who are unaware of this are gullible. They are actually encouraging anti-Semitism by voting for the Libjihad Party.
Jayme says
I think with in the year your going to see thousands of jewish people leave Canada as its no longer safe for them just look at what did happen at York a couple weeks ago.
Frank Anderson says
Jayme, I wish you are correct. With the lessons of history and Holocaust Remembrance services seemingly lost in the US, can Jews in Canada be more aware? How many Canadian Jews voted for open border policies that welcome invaders who don’t “like” Jews?
After more than 50 years of studying the history of the Holocaust as part of WWII, and over 20 years as a peaceful participant in the Jewish community, what I have seen in the US is not encouraging for their future prospects. I hope that will change, both for Canada and the US. Basic fact: about HALF of Germany’s Jews did something to try to escape Hitler. The other half did not. I mourn for those who did not succeed. I hope we can all learn from their sacrifice.
Nauticos says
It’s very simple: He needs the Muslim vote. And of course he’ll be bringing in 350,000 a year, as he declared. Why many in the Jewish community vote for this fool is beyond me…
gravenimage says
Muslims still make up just a little over 3% of the Canadian population.
Frank Anderson says
GI, Canada has an estimated population of 38 million. 3 percent of 38 million is about 1.14 million. I read in another comment Jihadi Justin plans to admit 350,000 per year as “refugees”. If there were not s single birth in the entire muslim population of Canada, the number would double in less than 4 years. Demographic conquest has worked many times in the past to force countries into slavery.
gravenimage says
Yes–still scary figures, I realize.
gravenimage says
Canadian Jewish Groups Decry Country’s ‘Betrayal’ of Israel at UN
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Trudeau keeps getting worse.
DogOnPorch says
Justin loves Islam. What more need be said?