Sunday, July 16, 2006
Francis Chartrand's statement about Israeli strikes in Lebanon
Like thousands of Canadians, I am pained to note the emplor of strike Israéliennes in Lebanon. These attacks which are always badly justified and which just that with now killed out of the hundreds the innocent ones. At the time to write these lines, seven Canadian appears in the number of the victims. My thoughts, thus those which of my close relations, go to the victims like to their families.
In addition, I am outraged to note the lack of tact and respect shown by our Prime Minister. Whereas it took part in G-8 summit with St.Petersbourg, it began its speech while protesting that these strike were justified and that Israel had the right to be defended. I must myself, by humanism, to condemn the remarks Mr. Harper.
As a citizen, I put myself the following question: At which price blood does have it to run in Lebanon? We recall that the Israélien state justified these attacks under pretext of strike the headquarters of Hezbollah, political movement Shiite having an armed branch which was at the origin of its creation. However, the information transmitted by the media is extremely different. They are paramilitary which are victims, neither of the headquarters of anything, nor of simple terrorists, it is rather the civil population which essuie rain of bombardments, as usual.
Let us establish a parallel with Quebec to illustrate what Lebanon currently saw. Let us imagine in 1970, during the removal of the British diplomat Mr. James Richard Cross (because there are 2 Israeli soldiers of removed at present), that British Royal Air Force decided to bombard some suburbs of Montreal, like Saint-Hubert, Point-Claire, Saint-Eustace or Terrebonne, in order to paralyse and to dismantle the FLQ (like Hezbollah)… Useless to say that more the innocent ones than felquists would have been touched!
Certain images, on CNN (July 17), of a sharp mother burned with her children in a vehicle close to Beirut show us how we are impotent in front of such an atrocity. We must ourselves, as citizens of a country recognized for its missions of maintains peace, to require our federal deputies that Canada have more “spinal column” and that it makes pressure on the international community in order to arrive at a fast outcome of this crisis, because the Security Council of UNO is “washing his hands”.
It is foreseeable that before long, Canada is destined for another mission of peace, and that many Canadian military young people will have to fight the “terrorists” in Lebanon as they make in Afganistan, another conflict where we do not have anything any more foutre. It is not too late to rise and condemn those which attack without reason as those which wash the hands of them. Later, if one asks us, us Canadian, on which side we were, we will answer: “Ours, the peace one.”
With the last news, more than 40.000 Canadian nationals are still in Lebanon. No precise measurement was still revealed on what the Harper government intends to do to repatriate them. Let us recall that the Lebanese community in Canada represents more than 250.000 personnnes, including 50.000 in Quebec.
Mr. Harper, enough it is enough! It is still time to make pressure to NATO and UNO, so that this massacre stops immediately. We will not accept another victim, any victim is a victim of too…
I call upon all the Canadians to make pressure on their federal deputies so that this messacre stops immediately. I call with solidarity at the Lebanese community through Canada. At the Lebanese community of Deux-Montagnes, in my riding of Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, I am interdependent for you.
Francis Chartrand,
Candidate of the NDP in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles
President of the NDP Association of Rivière-des-Mille-Îles
In addition, I am outraged to note the lack of tact and respect shown by our Prime Minister. Whereas it took part in G-8 summit with St.Petersbourg, it began its speech while protesting that these strike were justified and that Israel had the right to be defended. I must myself, by humanism, to condemn the remarks Mr. Harper.
As a citizen, I put myself the following question: At which price blood does have it to run in Lebanon? We recall that the Israélien state justified these attacks under pretext of strike the headquarters of Hezbollah, political movement Shiite having an armed branch which was at the origin of its creation. However, the information transmitted by the media is extremely different. They are paramilitary which are victims, neither of the headquarters of anything, nor of simple terrorists, it is rather the civil population which essuie rain of bombardments, as usual.
Let us establish a parallel with Quebec to illustrate what Lebanon currently saw. Let us imagine in 1970, during the removal of the British diplomat Mr. James Richard Cross (because there are 2 Israeli soldiers of removed at present), that British Royal Air Force decided to bombard some suburbs of Montreal, like Saint-Hubert, Point-Claire, Saint-Eustace or Terrebonne, in order to paralyse and to dismantle the FLQ (like Hezbollah)… Useless to say that more the innocent ones than felquists would have been touched!
Certain images, on CNN (July 17), of a sharp mother burned with her children in a vehicle close to Beirut show us how we are impotent in front of such an atrocity. We must ourselves, as citizens of a country recognized for its missions of maintains peace, to require our federal deputies that Canada have more “spinal column” and that it makes pressure on the international community in order to arrive at a fast outcome of this crisis, because the Security Council of UNO is “washing his hands”.
It is foreseeable that before long, Canada is destined for another mission of peace, and that many Canadian military young people will have to fight the “terrorists” in Lebanon as they make in Afganistan, another conflict where we do not have anything any more foutre. It is not too late to rise and condemn those which attack without reason as those which wash the hands of them. Later, if one asks us, us Canadian, on which side we were, we will answer: “Ours, the peace one.”
With the last news, more than 40.000 Canadian nationals are still in Lebanon. No precise measurement was still revealed on what the Harper government intends to do to repatriate them. Let us recall that the Lebanese community in Canada represents more than 250.000 personnnes, including 50.000 in Quebec.
Mr. Harper, enough it is enough! It is still time to make pressure to NATO and UNO, so that this massacre stops immediately. We will not accept another victim, any victim is a victim of too…
I call upon all the Canadians to make pressure on their federal deputies so that this messacre stops immediately. I call with solidarity at the Lebanese community through Canada. At the Lebanese community of Deux-Montagnes, in my riding of Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, I am interdependent for you.
Francis Chartrand,
Candidate of the NDP in Rivière-des-Mille-Îles
President of the NDP Association of Rivière-des-Mille-Îles
# posted by Francis Chartrand @ 11:03 PM 
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