[van-announce] Re: Jan 12 - Protest Racist Israeli Ambassador

[Palestine Centre]

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> PROTEST ISRAELI WAR CRIMES
> PROTEST RACIST ISRAELI AMBASSADOR
> Wednesday, January 12th  @  6:30pm
> 905 - 41st Avenue West, Vancouver
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> The New Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker, will be holding 
> a town hall meeting at the Jewish Community Centre in Vancouver on 
> January 12, 2005. We call on you to join us in protesting his 
> visit and demonstrating your dissention with the Martin government 
> initiating changes in Canada's Israel policy.
> 
> Where: JCC Wosk Auditorium, 6:30pm
> 950 - 41st Avenue West, Vancouver
> 
> Mr. Baker is well known for his position against the National and 
> Human Rights of Palestinians.  On Numerous occasions, Mr. Baker 
> justified the war crimes and daily massacres committed by the 
> Israeli Occupation Forces against Palestinians in the West Bank 
> and Gaza Strip.  While serving in the Israeli Foreign Ministry as 
> a Legal Advisor, Ambassador Baker was a top-ranking member of the 
> legal team appointed by Ariel Sharon’s government to prepare the 
> case against International Court of Justice’s involvement in the 
> ruling over the legality of the Israeli Apartheid wall. 
> 
> While the ICJ ruling was decisively against the wall and Israeli 
> Occupation, Mr. Baker was quoted in an AIPAC newsletter shortly 
> before it saying “We won’t go into the substantial questions of 
> whether the routing of the fence is permitted or not permitted, or 
> legal or not legal. We are just going to deny the jurisdiction of 
> the Court and the propriety of the Court taking up the whole 
> issue.” – This is coming from the top-ranking legal advisor turned 
> ambassador to Canada. 
> 
> As for the Israeli-Canadian relations, in comments to the 
> Citizen’s Editorial Board Ambassador Baker said Canadians must 
> realize additional restrictions on rights and freedoms are 
> necessary to counter the relative ease with which terror groups 
> can now infiltrate Canadian society and launch attacks here, 
> against the United States or on Israeli and other foreign 
> interests in Canada. 
> 
> We truly wonder what kind of relationship Mr. Baker is building 
> with Ottawa, or rather what kind of Ottawa his government wants to 
> see. 
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