Harper Tories Ballsy Internationally, Not So Much at Home

This one, by David Warren, dates from a couple of weeks ago, but I only got around to reading it now:

...Among all western nations -- not excluding the United States -- Canada has taken the clearest stand in defence of Israel's legitimate rights and interests. We have paid, and we will continue to pay for this. And we should take genuine pride in paying for our defiance of efforts by the Arab and Muslim bloc at the UN to isolate Israel, and make her a pariah.

Words cannot express my contempt for Michael Ignatieff, and other opposition members, who have tried to cloud what they know is a stand on principle.

Canada is not "tilting to Israel." Our government is rather maintaining a policy that has been consistent for more than six decades, since the state of Israel was created by the same United Nations after the Second World War.

We have affirmed and continue to affirm Israel's right to exist, as a Jewish nation -- just as she was from the beginning. And in a region where there are many squalid governments, and almost all formally claim to be "Islamic states" -- where all except Israel belong to the only explicitly religious international bloc (the Organization of the Islamic Conference) -- we rightly refuse to dignify objections to what they call "Zionism."...

The inconsistency of the Harper Tories--jellyfish squishes domestically; hung like a bull internationally--is hard to figure. It can't all and only be due to its minority status, can it? Something tells me that, were the government returned tomorrow with a commanding majority, Section 13 and the excesses of our "human rights" and refugee systems would not be addressed in any significant way.