The mainstream media continues to criticize Stephen Harper for recently losing a bid for a seat on the UN Security Council while blatantly ignoring the real reason for our rejection. Harper told a recent Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combatting Anti-Semitism (politicians from more than 40 countries) he will continue to support Israel even if it costs us internationally.
For this he should be applauded, not criticized. It is not that Israel is faultless or should be exempt from legitimate criticism but they are the only democracy in the region and the only nation on earth whose very existence is constantly threatened. Why does the UN, media and the world at large turn a deaf ear to the never ending threats of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the face of the planet even as he fiendishly pursues acquisition of nuclear weapons and his dream of a "world without Zionism"?
How is it we remain indifferent to the increasing anti-Israel rhetoric that continues to take place at Canadian universities? Why is the UN planning a third Durban conference next year which everyone knows will be like the two previous fiascoes which were nothing more than a racist platform for poisonous pro-terrorist and anti-Semetic speech?
Harper has done the right thing. Principles should always trump votes and we can all be proud of a Canada that is willing to stand up and be counted even if it proves unpopular.
