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Help, not hate Since last fall, the federal Conservative government has been withdrawing taxpayer funding from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that use their grants to take sides against Israel in the Middle East conflict. Now comes word that last week, Ottawa told the United Nations it would no longer fund the world body’s Palestinian refugee agency. From now on, Canadian aid to Palestinians will be directed to specific projects. We will no longer give lump-sum aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), since most of that money simply goes straight into the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) general treasury, where it might be used for humanitarian projects or might be used to arm and train terrorists. Although UNWRA has long been a biased player in the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is seldom criticized for its incitement of anti-Israeli hatred and violence by Palestinians. It has funded textbooks that deny the right of Israel to exist and paid teachers who call on Palestinian children to push the Jewish state into the sea. It harbours radical Islamists and anti-Semites on its payroll and was even caught in 2004 using its own ambulances to ferry terrorists away from Israeli sites they had just attacked. But most politicians and journalists consider UNWRA to be sacrosanct. Too many swallow whole the agency’s assurances that it is not involved in promoting terrorism and anti-Israeli sentiments in the West Bank and Gaza. Criticism of it always elicits howls that UNWRA’s mission is only to care for four million refugees in 59 camps and promote peace and understanding in the region. So rather than get dragged into a public relations war with the UN and its acolytes, Stephen Harper informed UNWRA and the PA that from now on, Canadian aid would be earmarked to specific projects, chosen by Ottawa, such as food aid. |
À vrai dire, devrait-on quasiment dire que le problème des Palestiniens est qu’ils ont des gouvernements (tant à Gaza qu’en Cisjordanie) qui préfèrent faire la piasse tout en blâmant leurs voisins (et pas seulement Israël) pour tous leurs maux au lieu de développer le pays.
Car dans cette partie du monde, beaucoup de gens ont tendance à utiliser les arguments qui sont les plus simplistes mais non pas les plus représentatifs de la réalité.
Tout ce qui touche de près ou de loin les Palestiniens est un racket. Religieux pour certains, économique pour d’autres, civilisationnel pour tous. Un racket néanmoins.
Duceppe devra bouillonner en silence, en attendant que le Parlement réouvre en mars…alors il pourra crier et déchirer sa chemise en Chambre pour tenter de ramener Harper dans le giron international sur cette question fort importante pour ses concitoyens/concitoyennes (comme celle des talibans remis à l’autorité afghanne et qui sont de temps à autres brassés un peu fort…pov’ petits)