Canada makes Israel's MFA "very happy"

C.F. Bernadotte

Sigh...hard to believe this is the same
country that led the charge against South
African apartheid 25 years ago.

"JERUSALEM–A United Nations panel voted
overwhelmingly this month to condemn Israel for
a recent armed incursion in the Gaza Strip that
claimed more than 120 lives, many of them civilian.

Thirty-three member countries of the 47-seat
UN Human Rights Council endorsed the resolution,
which accused Israel of war crimes in its ongoing
battles against Palestinian militants in Gaza.

Those in favour of censuring the Jewish state included
China, India and Russia. Thirteen countries abstained,
among them seven European governments.

But one nation stood alone against the denunciation of
Israel, and that country was not the United States –
Israel's leading foreign supporter – or even Israel itself,
for neither country has a seat on the human rights body.

Instead, the lone dissenter was Canada.

"We're very happy that we see things in a similar way,"
Carmela Shamir, deputy director of the North America
division at Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said
in an interview last week.

"Canada has adopted several times in recent
months very brave positions."

People are beginning to take notice."

full story;

http://www.thestar.com/World/Columnist/article/346766