Shameful Senator of the Day - October 8

Pamela Wallin just (again) revealed herself to be the political hack she is and always has been.  So, she finds the use of the word ‘genocide’ offensive, but has no problem with the actual commission of genocide.  She doesn’t think ‘genocide’ has been established?

Three weeks ago the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel concluded that Israel is guilty of genocide.  Amnesty International has confirmed that Israel is guilty of genocide.  The US-bases Center for Constitutional Rights has concluded that Israel is guilty of genocide.  Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for Palestine and the Occupied Territories has concluded Israel is guilty of genocide.  Huan Rights Watch has concluded that Israel is guilty of genocide.  The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has concluded that Israel is guilty of genocide.  The International Association of Genocide Scholars has concluded that Israel is guilt of genocide.  But…  Pamela Wallin isn’t sure???!!!

In between, bilking Canadians out of tens of thousands of dollars and shilling for violent US interventions around the world, Pam’s decided to weigh in on genocide?  Wallin has already clearly demonstrated that she can’t be trusted with Canadian’s money, news or public policy – we certainly won’t look to her for definitions of genocide.  The experts have spoken. 

But of course, not surprising that she objects to the term genocide – because we are morally obligated not to supply arms to a country committing a genocide.  And Wallin has spent most of her career lobbying for arms manufacturers.  War-mongering has been her central role in government – with the Hraper government and since.

Hey Pam?  If we want advice on how to pad our bank accounts using false travel claims…you’re our gal.   If we want a Canadian who has courage, compassion and any principles at all – we’ll look elsewhere.

Wallin has carried water for Israel her entire shameful career.  If expensive hairstyling and well-tailored outfits make somebody a journalist, then Wallin was a journalist – otherwise she is and was the kind of vapid, empty talking head that characterizes most establishment media. She’s a hair-do with a script.  True journalists like Anas Al-Sharif and Wafa Al-Udaini expose Wallin’s media career for the charade that it was. She – and her partners in shame, Raymonde Saint-Germain and Yonah Martin – are an embarrassment to themselves, the Senate and all Canadians.

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