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The Canadian government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has put into place the most principled foreign policy on the planet. For its troubles, the despots running Arab states are attempting to spend enormous amounts of money, not for the welfare of their own citizens or their brother Palestinian refugees, but to punish Canada for being too "pro-Israel." The latest attempt is Qatar's "gold-plated" offer to buy the UN's Aviation organization, which has been based in Canada since 1947. Qatar needs 60% of the 191 ICAO members to vote with it. Since a handful of Western democracies pay 75% + of the UN's bills, it wouldn't take much to shut this grotesque power play down before it started. So where is President Obama – or would he like to sell New York's UN Headquarters too?