Canada’s Blank Check for Israel

Questions have been raised over which country’s cabinet John Baird has served. 

‘The announcement that John Baird is to stand down as Canada’s foreign minister came about a year too late for Gaza.

For it was Baird who had gleefully embodied Canada’s ugly stance on last summer’s Israeli attack.

Not content simply to ignore the slaughter of sleeping children and unarmed civilians fleeing while waving white flags, Baird and his Conservative Party boss, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, rose to the unconditional defense of Israel, pretending the Palestinian question originated with Hamas, implying parity between the two “sides,” smoke-screening the longstanding siege of Gaza and blaming the dead for their own annihilation.’

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