On Israel, Justin Trudeau has found himself
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found himself.
For a while, he was lost. But the Gaza war has given him an issue he can get his teeth into.
For much of the last year, Gaza and the Hamas war were seen in Liberal party circles as problems the prime minister would do well to ignore. That’s because they highlighted the fundamental split over Israel that bedevils the party.
If the government criticized Israel, it was called antisemitic. If it didn’t it was called anti-Islamic.
