Back in April, I had posted here about the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, being trained on US soil for insurgency operations aimed at destabilizing Iran. Last week, Stephen Harper's Conservative government dropped the MEK from it's official list of terrorist groups. This is one more step the Harper administration has taken to align itself with a US and Israeli approach to foreign policy concerning the Middle East; a policy that is increasingly hostile to Iran, intent on blocking any Palestinian attempts at a Two-State Solution, and complicit in war crimes committed by Israel. Look at the facts:
-Canada recently severed diplomatic ties by closing it's embassy in Tehran, and expelling Iranian diplomatic staff from Ottawa.
-Canada supported Israeli military action against the Gaza strip during Operation Pillar of Defense (which could have been avoided altogether).
-Canada voted against a UN resolution to upgrade Palestine to non-member observer state status in the United Nations. Canada was joined in the dissenting votes by the United States, Israel, the Czech Republic, and the powerful nations of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, and Panama. One hundred and thirty-eight nations voted for the measure.
These policies have been a large divergence from the traditional peace-keeping, friendly role that Canada has played in world security, and instead now Harper has taken us on a path aligned with an aggressive, neo-liberal policy perpetrated by the United States.
-Canada recently severed diplomatic ties by closing it's embassy in Tehran, and expelling Iranian diplomatic staff from Ottawa.
-Canada supported Israeli military action against the Gaza strip during Operation Pillar of Defense (which could have been avoided altogether).
-Canada voted against a UN resolution to upgrade Palestine to non-member observer state status in the United Nations. Canada was joined in the dissenting votes by the United States, Israel, the Czech Republic, and the powerful nations of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, and Panama. One hundred and thirty-eight nations voted for the measure.
These policies have been a large divergence from the traditional peace-keeping, friendly role that Canada has played in world security, and instead now Harper has taken us on a path aligned with an aggressive, neo-liberal policy perpetrated by the United States.
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