Posted By  richards on July 28, 2013    
				
				Jul 28 2013 / 7:19 pm  
    Nakba - There is a clear parallel between Canadas Natives and    the Palestinians.  
    By Eric Walberg  
    This month, Canadas media solemnly related the sad truth that    the country engaged in a deliberate policy of attempted    genocide against First Nations people, referring to    government-sponsored abuse of Native children a century ago,    which Canadas Chief Medical Officer Peter Bryce exposed in    1907, but which was hushed up. Bryce was fired and the post of    chief medical officer abolished in 1919.  
    This, of course, is a terrible crime, though the facts have    long been known (the study referred to was published in 2006).    A study published by Ian Mosby in May this year added fuel to    the fire, revealing that from 19421952, the government    conducted nutritional experiments on Native children in the    infamous residential schools, where milk rations were halved    for years, essential vitamins not issued, and dental services    withheld as gum health was a measuring tool for scientists and    any care would distort research.  
    The media splash was made by Phil Fontaine, former chief of the    Assembly of First Nations, and Bernie Farber, senior    vice-president of Gemini Power Corporation and former head of    the Canadian Jewish Congress (since 2011 the Centre for Israel    and Jewish AffairsCIJA).  
    This is not the first time that CIJA has expressed support    for beleaguered Natives. For years now, just as hundreds of    Canadian MPs, MPPs, police officials, what-have-you are invited    regularly on junkets to Israel by CIJA or other pro-Israeli    groups, CIJA self-proclaimed social activists are now    courting local Native groups with similar free trips. For    instance, Winnipeg CIJA official Shelley Faintuch organized a    10-day Cree Youth Leadership Development Mission to Israel in    2012 and again this year with the support Norway House Cree    Nation Chief Ron Evans to develop the next generation of First    Nations leaders by looking through the lens of Israels    inspiring story.  
    Why would Canadian Jewish leaders suddenly take such an    interest in Natives and support their struggle for reparations    from the Canadian government for the centuries of colonial    subjugation and exploitation? Is it altruism, because of the    Jewish tradition of being a light unto peoples? This is what    CIJA would have us believe, with its claims to profound    cultural and historical similarities, striving for    acceptance, equal rights, rights to their own land.  
    There is another, very different explanation. The Native    resistance movement has continued to grow in the past half    century. And anyone with even a slight awareness of how Natives    in Canada were dispossessed and abused by colonial settlers can    easily see the parallel between Canadas Natives and the    Palestinians, who have suffered a century of identical    treatment by Jews immigrating to Palestine, which the latter    arbitrarily renamed Israel in 1948. As Natives become more    aware of their common struggle with other aboriginal peoples    around the world, they are bound to identify with the    Palestinians and their struggle against the colonial settlers.  
    So it makes perfect sense for Canadas Zionists to be    proactive, to try to convince Canadas Natives that it is the    (largely European and American) Jews who are indigenous to    Palestine, not the native Arabs. The story the Cree are told on    their Youth Leadership Development Missions is that Israelis,    like the Natives, are merely trying to reassert their    legitimate indigenous rights to their land. The screaming    headlines about the Canadian government genocide against the    Natives a century ago just happen to be accompanied by    self-serving lectures about the Nazi Holocaust, the Final    Solution, and even allusions to the infamous Dr Mengele    experimenting on Jewish victims.  
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