(Israel National News) Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, visitng Israel this week, stressed his country's strong support of Israel.
“Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada,” MP Baird said at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Monday.
Speaking at the 12th annual Herzliya Conference later that evening, Baird called the delegitimization and demonization of Israel the "new anti-Semitism."
MP Baird declares to Israelis at the annual IDC Policy Conference in Herzliya: "I can assure you, Canada will stand with you . . . Canada will stand beside you- shoulder to shoulder."
During the lead up to his election victory, he surrounded himself with a host of vehemently anti-Israel advisors including Lee Hamilton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and General Jim Jones, many of whom advocated imposing a solution on Israel.
He also made common cause with Jewish leftists represented by J Street and Israel Policy Forum who were urging him to increase the pressure on Israel and if that didn’t work, to impose a solution on Israel.
So it was no surprise that he started his term of office by attacking Israel, America’s best and most steadfast ally, declaring that all settlements were illegal and demanding a complete settlement construction freeze east of the greenline including in Jerusalem. He went so far as to repudiate the US commitment set out in the Bush letter ’04 to Sharon, declaring there was no agreement. Elliot Abrams and others involved in the negotiations which led to the letter, testified otherwise.
This letter also affirmed that “as part of a final peace settlement, Israel must have secure and recognized borders, which should emerge from negotiations between the parties in accordance with UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338.” Pres Bush had always supported a negotiated settlement and this letter did likewise. Noticeably absent was any reference to the Saudi Plan. The letter also contained a commitment, that “the United States will do its utmost to prevent any attempt by anyone to impose any other plan”.
By repudiating this letter as a U.S. commitment, Pres Obama opened the way for a settlement to be imposed according to the Saudi Plan rather than Res 242.
Academy Award recipient Kirk Douglas, introduced by L.A. Sinai Temple's Rabbi David Wolpe, addresses the Kodak Theatre audience in Hebrew, recalling the films he made in Israel, including Walter Mirisch's "Cast a Giant Shadow," with John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, and Yul Brenner.
Award-winning, Keshet Chaim, a contemporary L.A.– based Israeli dance company premiered a new work in honor of Israel’s 60th.
Each year, the Israel Air Force pays tribute to the Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, by way of a ceremony at the Auschwitz - Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. They point out that the Jewish armed-resistance fighters of WWII have evolved into a world-class army dedicated to protect the state of Jewish people.
In this 2007 ceremony, the Israel Air Force F-15 jets perform the "Missing Man" maneuver (after 3-minutes in video), traditionally symbolizing comrades-in-arms whose lives were sacrificed, made all-the-more poignant here in view of the millions of innocent, Jewish civilians murdered here for bearing connection to the G-d of Israel.
Learn more about the War Against the Jews- what led up to it, what wasn't done to prevent it, and how you can help end the Islamist continuation of Nazi ideology. Please visit the Yad Vashem Museum online at http://www.yadvashem.org.il
How Internet Haganah's Aaron Weisburd helped bring down "Terrorist 007" - featured on UK TV- BBC2 Newsnight and BBC News24 on Our World.
""Terrorist 007" was participating in (jihadist forum) discussions about which part of my body they wanted when I was killed, and he said he wanted one of my fingers as a souvenir.”
"In December, Younes Tsouli’s sentence was increased from 10 to 16 years. His conviction was the first for incitement to commit an act of terrorism through the internet, and a sign of what terrorists are capable of.
“What it did show us was the extent to which they could conduct operational planning on the internet,” Peter Clarke, the head of the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command, told me. “It was the first, 'virtual' conspiracy to murder that we had seen.”
As Internet Haganah's Aaron Weisburd puts it: “If you’re a terrorist and you’re dependent on the internet, I have bad news.”
