You did notice that this Baird arsehole threw not only the Palestinian people - and international law - under the bus, but also Israeli women...
Baird was accompanied everywhere in Israel by an Ottawa-based ultra-orthodox rabbi. Many Israelis are uncomfortable with that group but Minister Baird described the rabbi at every stop as his “teacher.” Baird refused, when asked by journalists, to make any criticism of Israel’s deliberate building of settlements in Palestine lands under its military occupation. These settlements are widely considered to be illegal under international law. In contrast, when Baird met with Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, he lectured him about the folly of his going to the Untied Nations last year in a bid to have Palestinians recognized as a state. Baird told Abbas that Palestinians should get back to the table, without preconditions, to negotiate a two-state arrangement with Israel.
There has been no shortage of news of late about these "ultra-orthodox" and their agressions against women, and even small girls, who failed to conform to their ever-more stringent "modesty" rules.
