By Marney Blom
On December 3, 2012, Canada’s National Post ran the headline, “Canada stands alone on the Mideast”.
“… Ottawa stands out for waving its diplomatic stick squarely — and solely — at the Palestinian Authority, recalling its diplomats from the West Bank, Israel and the UN offices in New York and Geneva to review Canada’s bilateral relationship with the authority,” wrote Kathryn Blaze Carlson.
The US and Europeans, on the other hand, have scolded Israel for it’s announcement to continue to build homes in areas of its vital interests — Jerusalem and beyond — citing it as a potential obstacle to Mideast Peace. Ironically, some of those same UN member states, in voting in favour of the Palestinian Authority’s bid for UN non-member observer state status, actively helped render obsolete the Oslo Peace Accord. The UN vote is viewed as a step forward in an attempt made by the Palestinian Authority to establish statehood unilaterally, outside of peace talks with Israel.
Feeling increasingly isolated by the majority support for the Palestinian Authority’s upgrade in status at the UN, and the harsh reprimands coming from the US and European nations in response to Israel’s right to build on it’s own soil, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, “History will favorably judge those countries that lined up on the side of truth, on the side of peace, and alongside Israel at this time.”
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