France, Britain, Canada Demonizing Israel

 

"[The leaders of Canada, France and the U.K. have succumbed to] offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities."

"This is a war of civilization over barbarism." 

"Israel will continue to defend itself by just means until total victory is achieved."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

 

"If Israel were to cease targeting Hamas, hostages would remain chained n tunnels and Hamas would repeat the October 7 massacre -- as it has explicitly vowed."

"If Hamas were to release the hostages and cease targeting Israel, a future of hope and prosperity would open for the people of Gaza."

Noah Shack, interim president, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Canada 

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Israeli solders stand next to tanks parked near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Israel on Monday.    Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

 

Jewish citizens of France, Britain and Canada may have been shocked at the condemnation issued by the three leaders of those countries against Israel for what they construe as 'disproportionate' military action undertaken by the State of Israel in response to the savagery unleashed when thousands of Hamas terrorists joined by the PLFP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah operatives, all intent on sadistically raping, mutilating, burning alive, and slaughtering 1,200 mostly Israeli civilians in an orgy of bestiality not seen since the Holocaust, on October 7, 2023. Israel's response since then has been to carry out a promised military move to destroy the capacity of Palestinian terrorism to wreak horror on Israelis at any future time.

 

Although the Israel Defense Forces' actions have been relatively measured in comparison to past world wars in terms of civilian deaths, Hamas publicity and public relations inflating numbers of civilian deaths by failing to distinguish civilians from militant terrorists as the latter, as always, took shelter behind the former with the direct intention of sacrificing Palestinian lives in favour of sheltering the lives of terrorists. A useful outcome was achieved for Hamas; 'saving' the lives of its terrorist fighters, while increasing the numbers of Palestinian civilians whose deaths could be used in accusing Israel of 'genocide'.

 

The humanitarian steps that the IDF employs to minimize civilian deaths are of no account to its Western critics who portray themselves as allies of Israel and foes of Islamist imperialist jihad, whom leaders in the West puzzlingly choose to credit by quoting Hamas charges of genocide against Palestinians, leading them to warn and finally threaten Israel with isolation and sanctions for not adequately providing food aid to the very population that elected and approved of the actions of their terrorist leaders who not only use them as human shields, but take possession of humanitarian aid for themselves, meant for civilian relief. 

 

Palestinian terrorists move toward the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7.    Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

 

The same European countries experience no troubled conscience in betraying Israel, withholding support for its existential dilemma, while championing Palestinians who have consistently turned down one peace agreement after another in favour of their own vision of an absent Israel whose ancestral land these Arab 

'Palestinians' claim as their own. In the same token while Europe and North America stand firm in their support of Ukraine which faces a threat of extinction at the hands of Russian expansionism, it becomes clear that what divides one situation from the other is the involvement of the future of Jewish life.

 

The situation such that Israel's Prime Minister reacts with incredulity at the sanctimony of Canada, the United Kingdom and France threatening 'action' against Israel citing its military offensive in Gaza. The unexpected joint statement from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, recall the years of the Holocaust when all three nations failed in their humanitarian obligation to give Jews refuge from the Nazi juggernaut overtaking Europe. While the three countries iterated their support of Israel's right of defence, they condemn its defence as "wholly disproportionate". Sentiments that have pleased Hamas mightily, prompting them to congratulate Canada (and not for the first time), France and Britain.

 

Photographs of some of those taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel are seen in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 18.   Leon Neal/Getty Images

 

"I want to put on record today that we're horrified by the escalation from Israel", Keir Starmer informed the British Parliament as he announced the suspension of free trade negotiations with Israel, and the ordering of new sanctions on West Bank settlements. European foreign ministers in Brussels are considering a proposal to review and suspend EU trade cooperation with Israel, led by the Netherlands, considered one of Israel's close allies in the bloc.

 

A reminder to Israel's detractors came by way of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' director general Eden Bar Tal who reminded them that the country had accepted the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff's ceasefire proposal along with release of the hostages -- which Hamas promptly rejected, while continuing to hold their Ace card; innocent people whom they hold prisoner under inhumane conditions as a bargaining tactic for the release of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons, while continuing to send rockets from Gaza into Israel. 

Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. February 22, 2025.   (photo credit: Ali Hassan/Flash90)