Angry in the Great White North

Consider how the far-left attacks Stephen Harper's position on Israel, as written up at the Marxist Socialist Voice:

The goal is to eliminate Hezbollah and Hamas, the leading popular resistance forces on Israel’s borders, and the challenge they pose to the Zionist state, Washington’s key ally in the Middle East. And the Harper government is marching lockstep with the Bush administration in this strategy.

Isn’t the purpose of the current Israeli offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine to "settle" this problem and prepare the ground for a U.S. attack on Iran? The question must be seriously asked. Who still believes that it is simply a "measured reaction" to the kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers?

Some have expressed surprise that the Harper government displays such little concern for the reaction of the Lebanese minority in Montreal. However, Lysiane Gagnon, a columnist with La Presse – and unofficial spokesperson for the Israeli lobby – wrote in the July 24 Globe and Mail that Stephen Harper was not afraid of losing the support of the 80,000 or so members of the Lebanese community in Montreal because "the end result, electorally speaking, will be that the Conservatives will make inroads into Montreal's 100,000-strong Jewish community, which, until now, has been one of the bedrocks of the Liberal Party." And we learned from the July 29 La Presse that the Conservative Party has already begun soliciting financial support from members of the Jewish community by citing its unfailing support of the State of Israel.

Destroy the popular resistance to the Zionists in order to gain financial and moral support from the Jews, while preparing to attack Iran?

Sounds a lot like the theory put forth by the neo-Nazis at Stormfront.org:

Terrorism against the Palestinian people? Check.

The Zionist power bloc? Check.

The impending attack on Iran? Check.

I know the point of view seems different, and there are differences in the details, but both groups, responsible for the greatest genocides in human history whenever they managed to take the levers of power, seem to hate the same actors, and for much the same reasons.

And apparently that includes hating me, and if you're lucky, hating you too. Because seriously, being admired by either is not something to be proud of.