thestar.com - 1/14/2009
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Bruce Campion-Smith Les Whittington OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA–Canada stood alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday, the only one among 47 nations to oppose a motion condemning the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. The vote before the Geneva-based body shows the Stephen Harper ...
haaretz.com - 1/12/2009
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haaretz.com —
The Central Elections Committee on Monday banned Arab
political parties from running in next month's parliamentary elections,...
drawing accusations of racism by an Arab lawmaker who said he would challenge the decision in the country's Supreme Court. ...
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Israel bans Arab parties from running in ...
timesonline.co.uk - 1/12/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
ISRAEL has sought to justify its military attacks
on Gaza by stating that it amounts to an...
act of self-defence as recognised by Article 51, United Nations Charter. We categorically reject this contention. The rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas ...
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Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence ...
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Canada Stands Alone
small dead animals —
Canada Stands Alone Well, I should hope so. Canada stood alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday, the only one among 47 nations to oppose a motion condemning the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. The body would be better named the ...
Blame Canada
The Corner on National Review Online —
... coming on upon reading this news : Canada stood alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday, the only one among 47 nations to oppose a motion condemning the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. It always speaks well of a chap when he stands alone before the disgusting UN "Human Rights" Council. Britain, France and Japan abstained. My advice to any civilized nation that chances to find itself on the UN HRC is, as a matter of policy, to vote against whatever the council's in favor of. ...
True North, on guard
TigerHawk —
Today we honor Canada . Canada stood alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday, the only one among 47 nations to oppose a motion condemning the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. It helps, of course, to be an oil exporter, but that does not explain why Canada needed to stand alone. Here is how the ...
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