An "event' Suraski "co-ordinated' last year was a Toronto speech by American Pamela Geller, founder of Stop Islamization of America, who was earlier prevented from entering the UK to address a rally of the same EDL. The British government ruled that her presence in the UK would "not be conducive to the public good".
JDL Canada's latest "event' is to block the building of a seniors' home for Muslims in Thornhill, a suburb of Toronto. A potential terrorist cell?
So is Suraski the bad guy here? But, surely Harper can have any friends he wants. Any advice Suraski whispers in Harper's ear is, after all, strictly unofficial. In search of official ne'er-do-wells, our redoubtable Sam decides to look at a prominent official, Eden Attias, appointed as Canada's first Israel military attaché in 2012.
Attias was intimately involved in both the invasion of Gaza in 2008 and the assault on the Turkish boat Mavi Marmara in 2010 in which nine Turkish citizens bringing aid to besieged Gaza were killed by Israeli troops. Attias's actions were condemned by a group of remorseful ex-Israeli Defense Force members, and Turkish investigators charged him with murder.
When Attias arrived in Ottawa, freshly promoted, he remarked: "Israelis are starting to understand that Canada is a separate entity from the US." Sounds good. Appeal to Canadian nationalism. But it seems what he really meant was: "The Canadian government is now a total Israeli patsy, unlike the US government, which would not countenance issuing false passports to our agents on demand. Thank you, little brother."
Later, with his eye on Harper, Attias made this subtext clear at a public ecumenical prayer gathering in Ottawa, where he said, "On behalf of all the people of Israel, I would like to extend a sincere appreciation to you, the Evangelist community here in Canada for supporting Israel."
Who dunnit? Who is responsible for this string of humiliating , criminal coincidences, for dragging Canada through the diplomatic mud? Banning a British MP, breaking diplomatic relations with a peaceful state, issuing a fugitive Mossad assassin a new identity on a shiny new Canadian passport? Suraski? Attias? How about Harper?
This appeared in PressTV
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