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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (11363)	12/4/2001 10:34:03 AM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27716

<< " A case against Walker "would be a tricky thing to prosecute >> Walker is history. His life would not be worth a plug nickel if he ever sets foot on America's sacred grounds.

To: lorne who wrote (11363)	12/4/2001 11:11:24 AM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 27716

"would be a tricky thing to prosecute.." MAYBE AN ACCIDENT IS IN ORDER-- MUCH CHEAPER THAN A TRIAL,, OR JUST REMOVE HIS CITIZENSHIP AND LEAVE HIM THERE WOULD BE THE HUMANITARIAN THING TO DO,,

To: lorne who wrote (11363)	12/4/2001 3:09:40 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27716

Canada still backs Hamas as charity ( Lorne - Nothing like sending a mixed message, eh? ) [ Jewish groups are again angry with Canadian foreign policy after Canada chose yesterday to maintain the status quo on Palestinian-Israeli issues during votes at the United Nations General Assembly, when a weekend of terror had left 26 civilians dead. Compounding their anger is the fact that Hamas, an organization that has been only partially labelled as terrorist by Canada, claimed responsibility for the attacks. Canada put the military wing of Hamas on its list of terrorist organizations last month, but has left off the charitable arm of the group. "We think it's nonsense," says Rubin Friedman of the Canadian Jewish Congress. "Hamas uses its charitable operations to recruit for its military wing." Joseph Wilder, national chairman of the Canada-Israel Committee, said it is impossible to separate the two arms of Hamas and to believe there is no connection between the charitable and military wings of the organization. "I can't separate them any more than I can separate the terrorists who blow up buses or blow up people on Ben Yehuda Square from those who strike their hijacked airplanes at the World Trade Center in New York. Terrorists are terrorists, and terrorist organizations are terrorist organizations. "Any organization that purports terror contaminates every part of that organization, charitable or otherwise," Mr. Wilder said. Foreign Affairs says Hamas and Hezbollah, the Shia Islamic organization, also perform legitimate political and social functions in the occupied territories and Lebanon. "We have been careful to list only the specific arms of organizations for which we have reasonable grounds to believe that they are associated with terrorist activity," says departmental spokesman Marie-Christine Lilkoff. "We have no quarrel with Hezbollah's or Hamas's peaceful, democratic and social programs which enjoy widespread popular support." She said it is up to those organizations to demonstrate that any funds from Canada are used only for "legitimate" purposes. At the UN, Canada voted the same way it did last year on five of the six questions that came up yesterday, with the only change being a decision to abstain instead of supporting a document on the "peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine." Britain had lobbied specifically to include Israelis as well as Palestinians in a portion of the document condemning the targeting of civilians, but its motion was voted down. Canada, along with a half-dozen Western European nations, then elected to abstain. "We found there was an unbalance in the text of the resolution," said Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Nancy Bergeron. "There is no reference to Israeli civilian casualties, particularly in light of the recent killings and suicide bombings. That's why we changed our vote." Canada also abstained from resolutions authorizing the secretary general and various UN institutions to advocate for Palestinian rights, for providing resources for UN institutions to promote the Palestinian cause, and on a declaration that Israel illegally imposed its laws and jurisdiction on the Syrian Golan in 1981. Canada voted in favour of a resolution declaring the imposition of Israeli law in East Jerusalem in 1980 to be illegal and a document authorizing the UN Secretariat to co-ordinate dissemination of information about the Palestinian cause. Canada's refusal to vote with the United States in opposing the resolutions disappointed Canadian Jewish groups still reeling from the weekend terrorist attacks. "With what's going on in today's world, one would have thought the UN would have taken a hiatus from these votes," said Mr. Wilder. "These resolutions deserve to be rejected on any reasonable basis." In Montreal, about 600 pro-Israeli demonstrators accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Canadian government of failing to take a stand against terrorism. "The quintessential godfather of terror is Yasser Arafat," Reuven Poupko, an outspoken Montreal rabbi, thundered over a loudspeaker. Speakers also had harsh words for the federal government, which some accused of failing to demand that Mr. Arafat crack down on terrorists operating in areas under Palestinian control. "The time has come to tell Mr. Arafat to declare war on Hamas, on Islamic Jihad, or the world will ostracize him," said Thomas Hecht, chairman of the Canada-Israel committee. The National Council on Canada-Arab Relations said it condemned the killing of all civilians, but added the weekend terrorist attacks should not have caused Canada to change its vote at the UN. "Palestinians for the past two years have been suffering some of the harshest measures ever," says executive director Mazen Chouaib. "Over 800 Palestinians have been killed since the uprising began and thousands more have been injured. They don't have control to their own water. It's a state of occupation unprecedented in the past." Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day attacked the government for not fully supporting Israel. He said Canada should be "standing shoulder to shoulder" with Israel just as it says it is with the U.S. in its war on terrorism. ] canada.com{1C67711C-A9BC-4378-88E1-AB33211FBF69}