Canadian P.M.: West needs to be more supportive of Israel

Canada’s Stephen Harper takes Western leaders to task for not sufficiently backing Israel, going on to caution the west against arming Syrian rebel groups.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Canada last week once again demonstrated its unequivocal support for and friendship with Israel when Prime Minister Stephen Harper took other Western leaders to task for not backing the Jewish state sufficiently enough.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Stephen Harper - Photo Sean Kilpatrick-THE CANADIAN PRESS

Benjamin Netanyahu and Stephen Harper – Photo: Sean Kilpatrick-THE CANADIAN PRESS

 

“There’s nothing more shortsighted in Western capitals in our time than the softening of support we’ve seen for Israel around the globe,” the Associated Press quoted Harper as saying during a visit to New York City last week.

The Canadian leader said that at a time of such turmoil, Israel has demonstrated that it is the “one stable, democratic ally” that the West can count on in the Middle East.

Harper went on to counsel “extraordinary caution” when considering whether or not the West should arm Syrian rebel groups. Echoing Israel’s own concerns, Harper noted that many of the groups making up the Syrian Free Army are themselves extremists “whose objectives we don’t understand.”

 

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