1. Marlene Young said:

Your comments are excellent, very astute and well put. Congratulations on getting your letter published, which we know, is practically impossible.

Many are unaware of exactly why many countries guaranteed hundreds of millions of dolars to the PA following the Expulsion of Jews from Jewish-owned property in Gaza and Shomron. Of course, just on face value, it would make sense to reward monetarily the one who is surrendering land and give aid to the forced evacuees, and it makes little sense to reward the corrupt terrorist PA regime who was being rewarded with land, property and businesses worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But we have come to expect this type of illogical fiscally irresponsible behavior of world leaders when it comes to the Palestinian Arabs. After all, they are the only group of non-refugees in the world who have their own office for refugees, UNRWA, at the UN, even as millions of barefoot, homeless, starved refugees in African nations and Asia must share and are ignored. How pathetic, that newspapers around the globe feature those "poor Palestinains" who are all well-fed, fully clothed including Nike sneakers, and all have homes and roofs over their heads, but never feature pictures of the naked Black homeless starved African refugees.

But the real story behind the multi- million dollar aid packages to the PA Expulsion of Jews, lies in the reason for this particular aid. This aid was part of the Expulsion Plan that was formulated by the Quartet and Radical Leftist and Arabist players at the EU, World Bank, UN and the State Department. THESE PLAYERS HAD NO INTENTIONS OF DISARMING OR DISMANTLING PA TERROR GROUPS, BUT THEY WANTED AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL NONETHELESS BY 2005. The Expulsion Plan could not go forward without a temporary Hudna, because even Javier Solana knew that terror attacks would make their hypocrisy public- that they were rewarding and appeasing the PA and its terror groups to appease and placate the Arab states over the Iraq war. They had to expel Jews to placate the Arab states and Arab populations in Europe and the Americas, but they had to have a temporary Hudna to do it. That's where the extra aid money came in.

The EU and other International aid is being used by Abbas and the PA to pay every single Hamas and Al Aqsa Militant $300.00 a week NOT to commit a terror attack during and following the Expulsion of Jews, until after the PA elections, or until another leader is elected in Israel who is not controlled and manipulated by Leftists and the Quartet. Every "militant" Israel now arrests in raids must be approved by Rice and Abbas, via Ward, if they are deemed a threat to Abbas' power and are not accepting the cash for Hudna deal. This deal was negotiated by the EU, Ward and Rice. It is a Cash for Terrorists deal- line up and collect your cash if you keep your explosive belts in the drawer for the time being. The terrorists can even collect and build up their supplies of guns, explosives and missiles, just as long as they keep them indoors.

Every future surrender of land to the Palestinian Arab terrorists will work this way. Time periods in between expulsions of Jews will be Hudna time-outs for PA terrorists to blow up Jews until the next round of pressure on Israel to give Land for "peace". The media is a strategic tool used during this time, because terror attacks on Jews in Israel by PA terrorists is always rationalized and excused by the Leftist media who have an alliance with radical Islam [they both hate, hate Jews and Christians]. This "second-tiered Diplomacy" has come up with "peace" as Cash for terrorists. In fact, it is not all that secret, but the Liberal media just ignores it, because it could be compared to paying off the Nazis in the 1940's instaed of defeating them.

2. Bill Narvey said:

Mr. Pettigrew's article, "Israel deserves fairness at the United Nations" appearing in the Ottawa Citizen this morning brings to mind the expression, 'saying the best about a bad situation'.

Mr. Pettigrew's statement that Canada has under the Martin government over the last two years begun reviewing anti-Israel resolutions to ensure they are in accord with Canadian Israel Palestinian policy or to call for their amendment to be brought into line with Canadian policy, is a tacit admission that Canada's position on those anti-Israel U.N. resolutions, in either previously abstaining without comment or voting in favor of those resolutions, were not in accord with Canadian foreign policy as written.

What such written policies say is however irrelevant. It is how those policies are implemented that defines what Canada's foreign policy is.

Based on Mr. Pettigrew's own words, one can fairly imply or infer, that Canada's foreign policy regarding Israel and the Palestinians was not balanced and therefore has been unfair to Israel.

A more fundamental question needs to be asked. Is Canada's foreign policy as written, regarding Israel and Palestinians in fact balanced or is there an inherent imbalance built into the policy that weighs against Israel?

The answer to this question depends of course on who you talk to.

Those who claim the balance is just right or that it weighs against Palestinians rarely cite more than their opinion, expressed as a self evident truth.

Those who condemn Canada's policy as being inherently weighted against Israel have cited numerous words and deeds of our government whether they be the voting record at the U.N., Canada's support for U.N. agencies that employ Hamas members, Canada's declared policy not to judge final status negotiations, while Canada's policies do in fact pre-judge those negotiations, giving credence to Palestinian claimed inalienable rights, while putting into question Israel's rights and interests, continuing to support the Palestinians without strings attached, ignoring that Israel's societal values are the same as Canada's, while many Palestinians societal values are an anathema to both Israel and Canada and a host of other policy and government statements far too numerous to itemize here.

One can flesh out numerous other examples of Canada's words and deeds that lead one to the inescapable conclusion that Canada's historical foreign policies leading up to the present time, are tilted considerably against the inalienable rights and interests of Israel.

Canada of course can describe its foreign policy regarding Israel and Palestinians as anything it wants. It has chosen to call it a balanced policy and so it is from this Canadian government's perspective.

From this writer's vantage point, however defining the word "balanced" when it comes to Canada's Israel and Palestinians foreign policy against realistic markers and indicia and against a reasoned understanding of what words and deeds go hand in hand to constitute balance, Canada's characterizing its subject policy as balanced is a gross distortion of reality.

To criticize Canada for its voting record at the U.N., its continued funding of UN organizations that employ Hamas followers, and other such actions by our government, focuses only on the periphery of Canada's Israel Palestinian foreign policies.

We are on the verge of a new government in the early winter, be it a continuation of the Liberals or it will be the Conservatives.

What needs to be done is to attack the essential perceptions, attitudes and biases of the Department of Foreign Affairs and those in authority who write and implement Canadian Israel Palestinian foreign policies. That attack must be geared to ridding the political thinking in Ottawa and Department of Foreign Affairs in particular of the dishonest rot that lies deep within which allows for Israel Palestinian policies that are decidedly tilted against Israel.

Bill Narvey

Earlier Posted to Canadian Coalition for Democracies