By Salim Mansur
During the past few weeks Canadians once more witnessed the mindset driving Arab and Palestinian politics.
The leadership of the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), in hurling public abuse at senior political leaders in Ottawa dropped its cultivated mask of responsibly serving its community, to display the streak of political ugliness carefully hidden from view.
Then the spectacle of the Israeli Apartheid Week on various university and college campuses across Canada disclosed how greatly infected are the organizers -- Arab-Palestinian students and their supporters -- with anti-Semitism.
In abusing federally elected leaders the CAF leadership inexcusably insulted the people of Canada.
Moreover, the intemperate conduct of the CAF leader -- Khaled Mouammar is a Palestinian-Arab and Orthodox Christian -- was indicative of the problem exacerbating Palestinian suffering, despite receiving much political, diplomatic and financial support from around the world.
Palestinians are an abused people, but they are not the only ones in a world where there has been much abuse of people lacking power to fend for themselves. Jews were an abused people, and the abuse directed at them eventually became the Holocaust. Read more ...
During the past few weeks Canadians once more witnessed the mindset driving Arab and Palestinian politics.
The leadership of the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), in hurling public abuse at senior political leaders in Ottawa dropped its cultivated mask of responsibly serving its community, to display the streak of political ugliness carefully hidden from view.
Then the spectacle of the Israeli Apartheid Week on various university and college campuses across Canada disclosed how greatly infected are the organizers -- Arab-Palestinian students and their supporters -- with anti-Semitism.
In abusing federally elected leaders the CAF leadership inexcusably insulted the people of Canada.
Moreover, the intemperate conduct of the CAF leader -- Khaled Mouammar is a Palestinian-Arab and Orthodox Christian -- was indicative of the problem exacerbating Palestinian suffering, despite receiving much political, diplomatic and financial support from around the world.
Palestinians are an abused people, but they are not the only ones in a world where there has been much abuse of people lacking power to fend for themselves. Jews were an abused people, and the abuse directed at them eventually became the Holocaust. Read more ...
Source: Toronto Sun
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