{"id":19026,"date":"2014-07-14T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19026"},"modified":"2025-01-08T07:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:44:23","slug":"canada-accuses-un-official-of-unfairly-criticizing-israeli-military-action-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/14\/canada-accuses-un-official-of-unfairly-criticizing-israeli-military-action-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada accuses UN official of unfairly criticizing Israeli military action in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14476\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Stephen-Harper-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14476\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Stephen-Harper-3.jpg\" alt=\"PM Stephen Harper at the Tribute to Liberty dinner. Photo courtesy of Harper's official Facebook page.\" width=\"960\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Stephen-Harper-3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Stephen-Harper-3-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PM Stephen Harper at the Tribute to Liberty dinner. Photo courtesy of Harper&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper&#8217;s government is taking aim at the United Nations once again, this time over comments a senior official made about Israel&#8217;s attacks on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the UN High Commissioner&#8217;s criticism of Israel&#8217;s response to rocket attacks from Gaza are uncalled for.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy prednisone online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/prednisone.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/prednisone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Navi Pillay said this week that there should be an immediate ceasefire, citing reports of many civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Saturday, Baird accused Pillay of focusing her comments on Israel and said that is neither &#8220;helpful nor reflective of the reality of this crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baird says there can&#8217;t be any &#8220;moral equivalence&#8221; between a democratic state like Israel and Hamas, which he calls a listed terrorist organization with a blatant disregard for human life.<\/p>\n<p>He says Israel&#8217;s military has taken extraordinary steps to reduce civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Harper has been a fervent supporter of Israel and a long-time critic of the United Nations and its officials.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy neurontin online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/neurontin.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/neurontin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have said round-the-clock airstrikes have hit Hamas hard, taking out some of the militant group&#8217;s rocket-launchers and storage sites.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy elavil online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/elavil.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/elavil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Israel took action this week in response to what it said was weeks of heavy rocket fire out of the Hamas-controlled Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper&#8217;s government is taking aim at the United Nations once again, this time over comments &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[6523,841,273],"class_list":["post-19026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-stephen-harper","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280735,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions\/280735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}