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Israel asked Canada to reverse decision on funding for UN Palestinian refugee agency

CIDA documents on UNRWA prompt fresh questions about role of Jewish lobby groups in policy making.

By Lee Berthiaume

Published July 6, 2011

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For more than a year, many have suspected that the Harper government's decision to stop providing direct budgetary support to the UN agency responsible for helping Palestinian refugees in the Middle East was made at the behest of Israel.

However, newly released CIDA documents appear to turn that notion on its head as they show Israel was one of a number of countries actively lobbying Canada to reverse...

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02/09/12 at 10:02 am

Harper Government needs to be taken down. Canadians are against the Israeli influence on the policies this rogue Tory Government is creating. real Jewish people do not influence Governments, only Zionists hiding behind the Jewish religion do. CSIS knows that Israel is illegally influencing our Canadian Govt. It is time they did something about it