Conrad Black: The moral bankruptcy of Carney’s Israel sanctions - National Post
Copy URL Facebook Linked In X (Twitter) Loading account options Sign In Manage Account Close account menu Manage Account Sign Out Loading subscription options Subscribefor $0.50/week Prime Minister Mark Carney talks during a news conference in Levis, Quebec, on Monday August 24, 2026. (Francis Vachon for Postmedia) By Conrad Black September 12, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Last Updated: September 12, 2026 at 10:01 a.m. It is dismal and unsurprising that Canada has joined with 11 other western countries in purporting to abandon the importation of anything coming from areas of the West Bank of the Jordan River that have recently been encroached upon by Israeli settlers. It is embarrassing that any of these countries would at this critical point In the Middle East join in such a futile gesture. The announcement was accompanied by a pompous reassertion of the ambition of these 12 countries to assist in a two-state solution to the Palestinian question. (The other states are Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.)
The Palestinians are not a distinct nationality but are essentially the Muslim and Christian Arabs of the former League of Nations Mandate taken from Ottoman territory at the end of the First World War that are not now located within Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, or the borders of Israel prior to the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur war of 1973. The notion of a Palestinian state was popularized by Arab nationalists led by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954 to 1970), in order to stir up antagonism to the State of Israel, and to distract the Arab masses from the misgovernment that was being inflicted upon almost all of them by their rulers.
The fate of the Palestinians has been a tragic one, as the Arab powers declined to assist in relocating them from fetid refugee camps that were simply terrorist breeding grounds. In their desperation, when given the chance, because of President George W. Bush’s blind faith that democratic elections would always elevate a democratic government, they empowered the Hamas terrorists in Gaza and the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, and both are dedicated with suicidal determination to the extinction of Israel as a Jewish state. Israel was endorsed by the United Nations as a Jewish state in the recent aftermath of the destruction of most of the European Jews and half of the Jewish population of the world, approximately six million people, along with an approximately equal number of other victims of the Nazi death camps.
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I counted new measures worth $137 billion over the next five years. We can argue their merits, but they are being paid for with borrowed money
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