OTTAWA (AFP) - "Canada will not hold talks with “genocidal” groups Hamas and Hezbollah to try to secure Mideast peace, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an interview with broadcaster CTV, to be aired Saturday.
“We will not solve the Palestinian-Israeli problem, as difficult as that is, through organizations that advocate violence and advocate wiping Israel off the face of the Earth,” Harper said.
“It’s unfortunate because with Hamas, and with Hezbollah in Lebanon, it has made it very difficult to have dialogue — and dialogue is ultimately necessary to have peace in the long term — but we are not going to sit down with people whose objectives are ultimately genocidal.”
“I think all of the civilized world is agreed — and it’s not just Canada — we can’t deal with organizations whose principle and only objective is terrorism and the eradication of the other side.”
go figure...how the hell did harper squeeze through the canadian p.c. thresher? .....the same one that spawned jacques chretien?.....
is this the fabled "leadership" i've heard so much about?...it's a sad reflection of western civilization that harper's common sense comments are unusual, rather than the norm.......
major props....major props.... to a true leader in the truest sense of the word....now, if the rest of the world took this stance, hamas and hezbollah would be a footnote in the history books beside the term "the dark ages of eastern asia"....
first george st pierre and now this?.....this clinches it...i`m rooting for montreal to win the stanley cup....
can harper and john howard run here in "08"?
“We will not solve the Palestinian-Israeli problem, as difficult as that is, through organizations that advocate violence and advocate wiping Israel off the face of the Earth,” Harper said.
“It’s unfortunate because with Hamas, and with Hezbollah in Lebanon, it has made it very difficult to have dialogue — and dialogue is ultimately necessary to have peace in the long term — but we are not going to sit down with people whose objectives are ultimately genocidal.”
“I think all of the civilized world is agreed — and it’s not just Canada — we can’t deal with organizations whose principle and only objective is terrorism and the eradication of the other side.”
go figure...how the hell did harper squeeze through the canadian p.c. thresher? .....the same one that spawned jacques chretien?.....
is this the fabled "leadership" i've heard so much about?...it's a sad reflection of western civilization that harper's common sense comments are unusual, rather than the norm.......
major props....major props.... to a true leader in the truest sense of the word....now, if the rest of the world took this stance, hamas and hezbollah would be a footnote in the history books beside the term "the dark ages of eastern asia"....
first george st pierre and now this?.....this clinches it...i`m rooting for montreal to win the stanley cup....
can harper and john howard run here in "08"?
