{"id":1410,"date":"2006-08-05T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2006-08-05T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T13:28:32","slug":"2006-8-5-canadas-pro-israel-stance-backfires-on-harper-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s pro-Israel stance backfires on Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060718\/wl_canada_nm\/canada_mideast_canada_politics_col_2\">paying the price for his support of Israel<\/a> in the current war. The 250,000-strong -Lebanese-Canadian community is furious with his description of Israel&#8217;s strikes as a &#8220;moderate response&#8221; to Hizbullah&#8217;s activities. Polls now indicate that 77% of Canadians want to remain neutral on this war while 61% of people in Quebec, where Harper&#8217;s conservatives were hoping for a breakthrough, are resolutely against supporting Israel. A coalition of 60 NGOs will be protesting on Sunday against the government&#8217;s position. As many as 50,000 Lebanese-Canadian were believed to be in Lebanon when the war started, and several have already been killed by Israel strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Also see this <a href=\"http:\/\/abonnes.lemonde.fr\/web\/article\/0,1-0,36-801268,0.html\">Le Monde article<\/a> [$].<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060718\/wl_canada_nm\/canada_mideast_canada_politics_col_2\">paying the price for his support of Israel<\/a> in the current war. The 250,000-strong -Lebanese-Canadian community is furious with his description of Israel&#8217;s strikes as a &#8220;moderate response&#8221; to Hizbullah&#8217;s activities. Polls now indicate that 77% of Canadians want to remain neutral on this war while 61% of people in Quebec, where Harper&#8217;s conservatives were hoping for a breakthrough, are resolutely against supporting Israel. A coalition of 60 NGOs will be protesting on Sunday against the government&#8217;s position. As many as 50,000 Lebanese-Canadian were believed to be in Lebanon when the war started, and several have already been killed by Israel strikes.<br \/>\nAlso see this <a href=\"http:\/\/abonnes.lemonde.fr\/web\/article\/0,1-0,36-801268,0.html\">Le Monde article<\/a> [$].<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[229,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}