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A “Dear Jack” letter: The Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC) is urging us to write letters to Jack Layton, informing him of our displeasure with the NDP’s decision to lobby for Canada’s attendance at that international gang-bang of Israel, Durban 2. Initially, the NDP had supported the Harper government’s refusal to attend the conference (which bears the name of the South African city where the first one was held shortly before 9/11, but which is actually going to take place in Geneva). Here’s what I wrote. I’m pretty sure it’s not what CJPAC had in mind:

Dear Jack,

I want to thank you for doing a volte face and encouraging Canada to participate in the upcoming Durban 2 conference. When the NDP backed the government’s move to stay away, it was so out of character that it made me dizzy. “What’s going on here?” I would ask myself in the throes of one of these spells. “Could it be that Canada’s socialist party, the party that is so consistently clueless, the party that just about defines the term “useful idiots,” could finally have gotten a clue?”

Well, let me tell you, the disconnect between your usual stance and your stance on Durban 2, the anti-Israel bash being co-organized by the Jewish state’s worst enemy, Iran, caused me to reach for the smelling salts on more than one occasion. However, I am pleased to report that, now that the NDP has reverted to form and sided with the folks who are labouring so hard to render Israel’s existence morally indefensible so that—move over, Adolf—they can justify its destruction on moral grounds (genius; sheer evil genius), my dizzy spells have ended.

Keep up the bad work!

Yours truly,

Posted by: scaramouche at 10:10 | link | comments (2)

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#1  06 June 2008 - 10:14

 

I've already written him. No response, as expected.

But because it's Layton and the NDP, qua Layton and the NDP, as long as Harper is in office, Canada will not attend Durban2. Period. Full stop.

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#2  06 June 2008 - 10:23

 

Realize that this is also a guy who backed the CIC's complaint against Macleans. 'Nuff said.

scaramouche

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