In terms of your last comment, I have nothing to say. It's up to the committee, as far as I'm concerned, to decide whether and how to conduct its own business, and I have nothing to say on that.
When it comes to the Canadian Middle East foreign policy, sure, that's something again that is for the Canadian government to decide. Rights and Democracy is not the agent of delivery of the Canadian government Middle East policy. The Canadian government decides its own Middle East policy and delivers it in its own way. That's not our job, and we don't have a Middle East program at Rights and Democracy. If we had a fully fledged Middle East program with balance on both sides, maybe B'Tselem would be somewhere in that mix, but to take three organizations all doing the same thing on the same side... B'Tselem is certainly the most moderate of the three; the others are off the map. It's out of context, it's not helpful, and it just didn't work in the context of the organization.
The fact that I'm in a minority in terms of my views of B'Tselem...well, I'm a Liberal in the Prairies, I'm used to being in a minority, so that in itself doesn't bother me. As far as I'm concerned, the decision was appropriate. If the Canadian government can figure its way out of this Middle East thicket better than we can, more power to it.