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Canada: Conservative government unconditionally defends Israel's assault on Lebanon
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At an emergency meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs August 1, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay resolutely defended the minority Conservative government’s stand in support of Israel’s military offensives in Lebanon and Gaza.

MacKay charged Hezbollah with sole responsibility for Israel’s month-long assault on Lebanon, while rejecting calls for an “immediate ceasefire.”

MacKay repeated Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s claim that it was Hezbollah that initiated the current conflict by capturing two Israeli soldiers. “Canada cannot be neutral on fundamental issues,” he added, justifying the assault on Lebanon as a part of a supposed war of “terrorism versus democracy.”

“This is not your classic war between states,” MacKay later told reporters. “This is a terrorist organization that has an ongoing history of violence, unilateral attacks across an international border. Israel has taken steps to change that circumstance.” A Conservative Member of Parliament dismissed the civilian fatalities of the Israeli assault (by then numbering well in excess of 500) and the 800,000 refugees as “collateral damage.”

In fact, Israel has been practicing state terrorism, dropping thousands of US-supplied bombs and missiles on Lebanese homes, roads and bridges, instituting an air, land and sea blockade that has stopped the inflow of vitally needed food and medical supplies, and occupying much of the south of the country.

In supporting the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, the Conservative government stands shoulder to shoulder with the Bush administration and hopes to lend it and Israel a measure of international credibility.


http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/aug2006/cana-a09.shtml - Wed, 9 Aug 2006 6:33am
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