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"I Will Defend Israel 'whatever the cost'" Please watch:  Fault Lines - Canada-Israel: The other special relationship I congratulate our Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the courageous stand he is taking since he took office in 2006. Please see  letter to Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper by David Harris,  Executive Director, American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, assesses challenges to Jewish security worldwide.  Here’ an excerpt:  When Israel responded to the killing and kidnapping of its soldiers on the Lebanese border by targeting Hezbollah, Stephen Harper spoke up for Israel’s right to defend itself, citing Hezbollah as responsible for the violence and asserting that the terrorist group sought Israel’s destruction. In the same year, the 53 French-speaking countries known as the Francophonie met, Canada vetoed language to condemn Israeli violence against civilians in Lebanon because...

by Daniel Pipes December 10, 2011 http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/12/newt-gingrich-and-the-invented-palestinian-people The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and current Republican presidential candidate  said yesterday that "there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. We have invented the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs and are historically part of the Arab people, and they had the chance to go many places." Everyone  from the PLO to a Mitt Romney spokesman  jumped on Gingrich for this assertion, but he happens to be absolutely correct: no Arabic-speaking Muslims identified themselves as "Palestinian" until 1920, when, in rapid order this appellation and identity was adopted by the Muslim Arabs living in the British mandate of Palestine. For details, see a long article of mine from  1989  on the topic or a short one from  2000 . (December 10, 2011) The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine {Long versi...