Dear Canadian Prime Minister Harper - Jerusalem Post - Blogs
I wish to share this commentary from David Harris, a letter publish to The Great Honourable Prime Minister of Canada Stephan Harper. Dear Canadian Prime Minister Harper | Jerusalem Post - Blogs David Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, assesses challenges to Jewish security worldwide. Dear Canadian Prime Minister Harper When it comes to the Middle East, too often there’s been an inability to distinguish between the despot and the democrat, the arsonist and the firefighter, among those who should know better. Too often the politics of principle have yielded to expediency, and truth has been thrown to the wind. And too often moral courage has been trumped by moral ambiguity at best, cowardice at worst. Of moral courage, Mark Twain wrote 110 years ago in reply to an inquiring newspaper editor: My Dear Sir, But you are proceeding upon the superstition that Moral Courage and a Han...