What Explains Harper’s Slavish Support for Israel? By Yves Engler http://mostlywater.org/what_explains_harper’s_slavish_support_israel

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. Instead, power is what drives foreign affairs and Palestinians have never had much of it...Palestinians also had the misfortune of living on land claimed by a predominantly European political movement: Zionism.