Hamas Savage Barbarity Excused

"To say otherwise is to accept and endorse colonialism in all its forms. [To say otherwise is not allowed]."

"We condemn any statement that denies or shifts away from the narrative of colonialism."

"Palestinians are the subjects of Israel's colonization and genocide."

Metropolitan University Lincoln Alexander law school, Toronto

"There are any number of sobering lessons that might be drawn from the obscene celebrations of mass murder that have erupted across Canada in the aftermath of the October 7 massacres in Israel, when "special forces" units of the Hamas terrorist organization carried out the bloodiest pogrom in Jewish history since the Holocaust.

"That a genteel, faculty-lounge variety of antisemitism has gone unchallenged for too long is certainly one lesson. Another is that Canada's official toleration of the propaganda, recruitment and fundraising arms of terrorist organizations is bad policy that free-speech rights cannot be allowed to excuse."

Terry Glavin, journalist, National Post

Israeli forces extracting dead bodies of Israeli residents from a destroyed house in Kfar Aza, Israel, on October 10. Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP

 

To be perfectly clear here, Palestinian Gaza's Hamas rulers committed unspeakable acts of inhumanity against thousands of infants, teens, girls and women, elderly and Israeli soldiers in their brazen demonstration of savagery unlike anything the world can imagine perpetrated by trained killers purporting to be liberators of Palestine. So proud of their inhumanity that they recorded for posterity in real time the atrocities they committed against helpless people. Crimes that will join the annals of the world's evil excesses in barbarity.

Perhaps even more shocking is that hordes of ordinary Palestinian men and teens flooded into Israel after the Hamas operatives to take joy and pleasure in the circumstances that allowed them to commit violence similar to what the terrorists themselves were perpetrating in an orgy of blood-letting and merciless mutilations. These are the people who support Hamas, these are the people who emulate Hamas, and for whom inflicting terror and vicious pain on people they've been instructed and taught to hate is entertainment.

The prime minister of Canada himself, in full knowledge of the extent of the excruciatingly dreadful acts committed by the terrorist group chose to instantly believe what their 'Health Authority' claimed in charging that Israeli forces bombed a hospital and that 500 innocent Palestinians were killed, as a result. Israel's immediate rejoinder explaining that it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad which was firing rockets off from nearby grounds and that one of the rockets exploded and fell onto the hospital parking lot was rejected 'until proof could be found' their explanation reflected reality.

"I'm horrified by the loss of life at Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza. My thoughts are with those who lost loved ones."

"It is imperative that innocent civilians be protected and international law upheld."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

The prime minister's insinuation that Israel was responsible for bombing the hospital and must be held to account was belied when days later Defence Minister Bill Blair made the announcement that the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command's independent analyses indicated "with a high degree of confidence" that it was not Israel that struck the hospital; that "the more likely scenario is that the strike was caused by an errant rocket fired from Gaza". Trudeau has not since apologized.

And nor was the hospital destroyed, much less hit. It was vehicles parked in the hospital parking lot that took the brunt of the damage. No doubt there were casualties; the hospital director himself some days later minimized the total afflicted. But to critics and haters of Israel, the guilt will remain with the original accusations that also blame it for the rampage by Hamas terrorists for the slaughter of families in their homes and streets of the towns and kibbutzim and the music festival at Re'im.

In Canada, since the horrors of October 7, dozens of demonstrations have taken place, rallying protesters around the fiction that Israel is intent on carrying out a "genocide" of Palestinians in Gaza. Organizers exhort Canadians to support a "resistance" that legitimates terrorism that sees nothing amiss when proof is provided, courtesy of Hamas operatives themselves, of dismembered babies and families burned alive in their homes after being tortured.

Now, there are universal calls for a "ceasefire" in Gaza based on the narrative that the "root cause" of the horrors that took place in Gaza can be attributed to "Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory", which just happens to be a Biblical-era-forward geography of ancestral Judaean land reclaimed by its rightful indigenous inheritors.

People attend a vigil for Israeli victims at the Stephen Wise Temple, October 8, 2023, after the terrorist  group Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP