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| Palestinians hurl eggs and shoes at Canadian FM’s convoy | |
| 2015-01-19 | |
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird traveled to Ramallah Sunday to meet with Paleostinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki. After the meeting, as Baird left the city, dozens of Paleostinian protesters pelted his convoy with eggs and shoes. The protesters held aloft signs reading: “Baird you are not welcome in Paleostine” and “Baird, Jerusalem is our capital.” Activists from Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ’ Fatah party earlier had called for a boycott of Baird because of Canada’s Middle East policies. “This person backs up the Zionist movement,” protester Abdullah Abu-Rahmeh said. “This person diminishes the rights of our people, takes part and backs up building of settlements. We tell him that he’s not welcome.” Baird said after the meeting with Maliki that he had asked the Paleostinians to refrain from diplomatic moves that would make reaching an agreement with Israel even more difficult. Activists from PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party had earlier called for a boycott of Baird because of Canada’s perceived pro-Israel stance. Baird nevertheless reported the meeting with Mailki was productive. Chief Paleostinian negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... demanded that the Canadian government apologize for backing Israel and its “apartheid policies” and for preventing the Paleostinian people from achieving statehood. He also called on Arab countries to foil Canadian diplomacy. “The Paleostinian people as well as the rest of the Arab and Moslem countries deserve an apology from the Canadian government for years of systematic attempts at blocking the right of the Paleostinian people to a state of their own,” Erakat said in a statement. “We regret the Canadian government’s decision to stand on the wrong side of history by blindly supporting the Israeli occupation and its apartheid policies,” he declared. “Canadian FM John Baird has contributed to Israeli violations of Paleostinian inalienable rights, including our right to self-determination, by systematically lobbying against all Paleostinian diplomatic initiatives.” Baird has in the past voiced strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself and has called for the demilitarization of the Gazoo Strip. Recently he urged the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to reverse a decision to remove Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, from its list of terror groups. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Eggs and shoes is some kind of regional, ethnic dish, I think. It's not like we are talking developed nations here. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-01-19 14:57 |
| #1 And people claim they've nothing to eat. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-19 13:04 |