Canada Champions Israel At G8 Summit

Arutz Sheva reports that "Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper once again proved himself to be Israel's champion at the G8 summit last week. Despite intense pressure, Harper blocked calls to force Israel into final status talks based on accepting the 1949-1967 Armistice lines, with land swaps. He also opposed major aid packages to Egypt and Tunisia, where continued unrest has dogged transitional governments after the “Arab Spring” uprisings toppled decades-long regimes. No Canadian aid will go to either country – an important point particularly in the case of Egypt, which has just opened its Rafiah border crossing with Gaza. The move Saturday – carried out without European Union observers as previously negotiated between Israel and the Palestinian Authority – will enable the entry of even more arms, ammunition and terrorists into Gaza than its Hamas rulers have already managed to imporhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gift through its hundreds of smuggler tunnels. Still, the summit pledged a $20 billion-plus package of assistance to Egypt and to Tunisia on Friday at the close of its session."

Furthermore, Israeli "Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman made sure to pick up the phone and call his counterpart in Ottawa this weekend to thank him for Canada's stance at the G8 summit last week. Lieberman told John Baird, who recently came into the post, that Canada is a 'true friend of Israel.' Israel's foreign minister added that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had been correct in his reading of the situation to know that the 1967-1949 Armistice lines are incompatible with the demographic realities in the Jewish State – and are indefensible as borders. Harper blocked the G8 from issuing statements with any mention of the recommendation, stated by U.S. President Barack Obama in his Middle Eastern policy speech a week prior." Tweet