Posted on 08/04/2006 9:11:52 PM PDT by balk
Liberal power couple back Harper on Mideast
OTTAWA Liberal power couple Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz have publicly broken with the Liberal Party line on the Middle East crisis and are turning to Prime Minister Stephen Harper because of his support of Israel.
Mr. Schwartz, a confidante of former prime minister Paul Martin and one of Canada's most influential businessmen as the head of Onex Corp., is one of the eight signatories of an advertisement placed in a newspaper in Cornwall, Ont., where the Conservatives are holding caucus meetings.
Mr. Schwartz's wife, Ms. Reisman, says she is leaving the party to support the Conservatives under Stephen Harper.
In an e-mail to friends, Ms. Reisman applauded film producer Robert Lantos's statement at a weekend rally that he would "hereby take off [his] life-long federal Liberal hat."
"I [am] right there alongside Robert. . . . after a lifetime of being a Liberal, I have made the switch," Ms. Reisman wrote. "Feels strange, but totally and unequivocally right."
A recipient of the e-mail confirmed that Ms. Reisman, who was the Liberal Party of Canada's policy chairwoman in the 1980s and who worked for Pierre Trudeau in his first election in 1965, had sent the e-mail to several friends, and that she has told others the same thing.
"She has told her friends in person and in e-mails that she is supporting the Conservatives under Stephen Harper this time," a close friend said yesterday. "She thinks that his position on the Lebanon issue is the right one."
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I see some Jews get it. It is fustrating to see Americans Jews overwhelmingly supporting the Democrats. If the Democrats ever yeilded to the desires of their base, Israel would soon cease to exist.
Seems to me Canada is having an epiphany.
There are Democrats who enjoy Repub tax cuts, all the time posturing against those benefits. There are a few lingering pro-Israel Democrat Jews who are complacent in the knowledge that Repubs won't let Israel die, no matter how hard these same Democrats work to undermine their efforts. Kind of an Atlas Shrugged thing going on.
But it looks like Lieberman is facing a clear danger in Conn without the subject of Israel even coming up.
Delay was the most passionate pro-Israel rep in the House. Did he ever get a kind word, much less any gesture of help?
Some critical mass has been reached when it comes to US support in Israel. While Jews work tirelessly against President Bush, it seems not to matter that he will be the last authentically pro-Israel president.
What we have here is a failure to reciprocate.
Exactly! Let's make sure they aren't a Trojan horse like Belinda.
Cheers
Jim
Toronto? I HIGHLY doubt it. The people there are so entrenched into liberalism and socialism that most think the Conservatives are a bunch of scary extremists...
This is great news, but gives one a chill down the spine. People are putting all domestic political squabbling behind and are preparing for 'big war'.
Are any of the Bronfmans in these two politico's inner circle by chance?
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