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Monday, May 10, 2010

Ottawa tilts towards Israel in a nonsensical way By Yves Engler http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/05/ottawa-tilts-towards-israel-nonsensical-way

The power of empire has tilted Ottawa towards Israel and until there is a significant source of power in Canada (or internationally) backing the Palestinians it is likely to stay that way. Social justice, humanism and morality rarely motivate Canadian foreign policy.Historically, Ottawa has sided with colonial powers and opposed national liberation struggles.

Canada opposed calls for the withdrawal of Dutch troops from Indonesia in the late 1940s. For decades Canada supported British colonialism in Africa while throughout the late 1950s it sided with France against the Algerian liberation movement. Into the 1970s, Ottawa backed Portugal as it waged a colonial war against the people of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau.

It took decades of struggle within Canada -- and a shift in the international climate -- for Ottawa to withdraw its backing for the apartheid regime in South Africa.Considering this history, it's not surprising that Ottawa opposes the Palestinian national liberation struggle. To focus on the Jewish lobby is to downplay Canada's broader pro-colonial, pro-empire foreign policy.

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