Netanyahu Calls Canadian PM "a great friend of the State of Israel"

Aimee Herd : Jan 20, 2014
News Staff – CBN News

"I have to say, Stephen, that you are a great friend of Israel and the Jewish people. I'm not just saying that. I mean it deeply from the bottom of my heart and I speak for all the people of Israel." -Benjamin Netanyahu

(Jerusalem, Israel)—According to a recent CBN News report, Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper has—since he took office in 2006—supported Israel in "every military operation," and in the legitimacy of the Jewish State. (Photo: CBN News)

Harper is an Evangelical Christian and has faithfully stood by Israel, an action that is speculated to have been a roadblock in Canada's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, along with a 250-member delegation, welcomed Harper and his wife Laureen in their visit to Jerusalem on Sunday.

"Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a great friend of the State of Israel," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "He has strongly opposed attempts to delegitimize the State of Israel and has taken a praiseworthy moral stand against these attempts."