Thursday, January 23, 2014

Editorial Focusing on Israel's sins

QMI Agency
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Harper Israel        
 Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen share a laugh at the newly christened Stephen J. Harper Hula Valley Bird Sanctuary in northern Israel. The naming honour was one of several accorded the prime minister during his four days in Israel. (DAVID AKIN/QMI Agency)

We always knew the Canadian mainstream media were biased at home. But it's embarrassing to see it play out abroad during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to Israel.

And some say it's the politicians who tarnish our international image!

For starters, they seem obsessed with getting Harper to vocalize -- in front of Benjamin Netanyahu -- the official Canadian policy that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal.

In truth, if he's asked a question and can easily give a straight-forward answer, he should.

But Harper's response was still apt: "Yesterday in the Palestinian Authority, no one asked me there to single out the Palestinian Authority for any criticism in terms of governance or human rights or anything else." Media was widely reporting with disdain that one of the 208 members of Harper's delegation was a Christian pastor with negative views of homosexuality.

 If that's such a story, why isn't the terrible treatment of LGBT people in Palestine also a major story?

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/22/focusing-on-israels-sins

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