Is That A Baird Birdbrain?

It's tough when your intelligence quotient hovers and your familiarity with history is negligible, I guess.

Baird seems to reverse language on Israel

Canada wants Israel to use its 1967 borders as the starting point for negotiations with Palestinians seeking independence, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Wednesday, just days after Prime Minister Stephen Harper is said to have prevented such language from being included in a G8 statement on the matter.

Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill, Mr. Baird backed U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for Israel to either return East Jerusalem to the Palestinians and dismantle settlements in the West Bank or hand over other territory in compensation as part of the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

“We support, obviously, that that solution has to be based on the ’67 border, with mutually agreed upon swaps, as President Obama said,” Mr. Baird said.

...Mr. Baird said his statement was not an about-face in Tory policy, but he appeared not to be familiar with Resolution 242, the 1967 UN declaration calling on Israel to pull its troops back.

Why does Israel need to compensate through land swaps?

Mr. Baird, if they started the war in 1967, if they founded the Fatah terror group in 1964, if they engaged in fedyeen-style terror in the 1950s, if the refused the UN 1947 Partition recommendation and initiated a war, why does Israel have to be the only one compromising in territory - even if we ignore Jewish rights in Judea, Samaria and Gaza? Even if we ignore Israel's security needs?

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