I was intrigued this morning to learn about Canada's parliamentary Israel Allies Caucus. That led me to the American Covenant Alliances web page (http://www.covenantalliances.org/) which began with what was called The Jerusalem Accord:
Believing it to be a pillar of both the Jewish and Christian faiths that the Land of Israel and its eternal capital, Jerusalem, are the inheritance of the Jewish people forever, and wishing to take concrete steps to support this just and righteous truth, we pledge to petition our government to take the following three steps on behalf of Israel and the cause of peace in the Middle East and the world.
In accordance with the provisions of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 enacted by the U.S. Congress, build a new embassy in Jerusalem within two years, in acknowledgment of the eternal truth that an undivided Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people.
Vigorously work for the resettlement of the Palestinian refugees to the lands of their Arab kinsmen in order to rescue them from the purgatory of refugee status and restore to them the hope of a better future.
Demand the Palestinian Authority disarm the terrorists in their midst, and halt all violence, propaganda, and incitement against the people of Israel, failing which the Oslo Agreements shall be null and void.
We hereby agree and declare that the Land of Israel is promised by God to the Jewish people. We oppose any policy that fails to take God’s word into account and attempts to separate the Jewish people from the Land of Israel.
What these Evango-nutjobs are plainly advocating is the expulsion of the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank and their "resettlement" in other Arab countries.
Is the Canadian Israel Allies Caucus in on this? Just what is this caucus, who belongs to it, what lobbying are they doing to subvert the government of Canada? Whatever this "caucus" is, the lobby, its members and their activities need to be brought out into the open. They're supposed to be serving Canada, not Israel.
Believing it to be a pillar of both the Jewish and Christian faiths that the Land of Israel and its eternal capital, Jerusalem, are the inheritance of the Jewish people forever, and wishing to take concrete steps to support this just and righteous truth, we pledge to petition our government to take the following three steps on behalf of Israel and the cause of peace in the Middle East and the world.
In accordance with the provisions of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 enacted by the U.S. Congress, build a new embassy in Jerusalem within two years, in acknowledgment of the eternal truth that an undivided Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people.
Vigorously work for the resettlement of the Palestinian refugees to the lands of their Arab kinsmen in order to rescue them from the purgatory of refugee status and restore to them the hope of a better future.
Demand the Palestinian Authority disarm the terrorists in their midst, and halt all violence, propaganda, and incitement against the people of Israel, failing which the Oslo Agreements shall be null and void.
We hereby agree and declare that the Land of Israel is promised by God to the Jewish people. We oppose any policy that fails to take God’s word into account and attempts to separate the Jewish people from the Land of Israel.
What these Evango-nutjobs are plainly advocating is the expulsion of the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank and their "resettlement" in other Arab countries.
Is the Canadian Israel Allies Caucus in on this? Just what is this caucus, who belongs to it, what lobbying are they doing to subvert the government of Canada? Whatever this "caucus" is, the lobby, its members and their activities need to be brought out into the open. They're supposed to be serving Canada, not Israel.
Are there any Liberals in this outfit? There's no reason the LPC shouldn't come clean on this.
Interesting. I had not heard of this, but now I see it was announced in the Jerusalem Post (Israel sent some MKs to Ottawa to launch this initiative in 2007).
ReplyDelete"We hope that one day every parliament and government around the world will form a sister caucus to the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus which will mobilize support for Israel around the world and promote Judeo-Christian values."
Over the next six months, similar parliamentary lobbies are expected to be established in the Philippines, South Korea, Malawi, South Africa and Finland
Sounds a bit like the Crusades.
I just saw you had an earlier post on this. I had missed that.
ReplyDeleteDid you find out anything about the membership of the Canadian one? The only info I found is on the Israel Knesset site, which says that ours is chaired by Stockwell Day and James Lunney.
ReplyDeleteHoly Cow!! Democracy really at work. Hide, hide and more hide....that's a great way to fool people. AM
ReplyDeleteYup, over 2 years later and no answers, the group works in secrecy, and Harper praises Israeli rocket strikes.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately no one in the MSM in Ottawa seems willing to touch this. Having just finished Sharlet's "The Family" I'm left wondering about the extent of fundamentalist influence within our Parliament.
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