For Shame, Canada

"[The actions of the Netanyahu government] were explicitly designed to end any possibility of a state of Palestine, in violation of the UN charter and going against Canadian government policy of whatever political stripe since 1947."

"[The conferred recognition does not compromise Canada's support] for the State of Israel, its people, and their security -- [which can only] be guaranteed through the achievement of a comprehensive two-state solution."

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

 

"We've let terrorist organizations turn our country into an ATM, but the leader of the only Jewish state in the world isn't welcome here."

"Make it make sense."

Casey Babb, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute 

 

"What?"

"Hamas thanked Carney when he derailed a peace proposal on the eve of a trade deal deadline with the U.S.A."

"Now Hamas is publicly executing competing Palestinian factions. But [Mark Carney] tells Bloomberg he would arrest PM Netanyahu?"

"Astonishing!"

Conservative Member of Parliament Roman Baber

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly via video. He welcomed the recent recognition of statehood by a number of countries, including Canada. (Angelina Katsanis/The Associated Press)

 

In November of 2024 at the instigation of South Africa -- no friend of Israel -- the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israel's prime minister, alleging that he was "responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population" of Gaza, initiated on October 8, 2023. 

 

Of course, to place matters in their proper perspective, the day prior to the Israel Defense Forces entering Gaza for the direct purpose of confronting and destroying the Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas had directed four thousand of its operatives, along with those of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah (PA) followed by several thousand Palestinian civilians to embark on a surprise assault on Israeli border communities in a paroxysm of unspeakable savagery, raping, mutilating, murdering and taking hundreds of hostages back into Gaza.

 

For its part, Hamas was prepared to sacrifice the lives of as many Palestinians as it would take to arouse the condemnation of the West to fever pitch while orchestrating those Palestinian deaths by placing themselves directly within the crowded precincts of Gaza's civilian population, including sending rockets off into Israel using launchers placed near mosques, schools and public housing, to draw Israeli fire to areas that would result in the greatest possible civilian deaths.

 

Canada's prime minister Mark Carney, middle, sits beside Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand during the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

 

Numbers used by Hamas as publicity to feature Palestinians as victims of Israeli aggression to achieve 'genocide' against Palestinians, in the process inflating the numbers of those injured and dealt death as collateral damage in the Israeli response to the invasion of Israel by Palestinian terrorists resulting in 1,200 deaths and 250 captive Israelis, dead and alive spirited into Gaza as hostages. Hamas public affairs portrayed a huge death toll of Palestinian civilians peculiarly comprised mostly of women and children, numbers unquestioningly repeated by the Western press.

 

Lending fodder to the thousands of Palestinian supporters and Islamist Muslims living in the West who embarked on astonishingly well-organized protests against Israeli aggression, calling for a Palestinian state 'from the river to the sea', and a global intifada uprising against Jews, along with a 'Final Solution'. The atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists for the past 80 years, their constant violent agitation and lethal attacks against Israel and its civilian population have been well documented, leaving Israel little choice but to be on constant alert against further attacks. No other country in the world has laboured to uphold its right to existence as has Israel.

 

Yet countries like the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, France and Canada among others condemn Israel for a 'disproportionate' response to bloody terror, and in this latest mass atrocity have seen fit during the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas, Hezbollah, Yemen's Houthis and Iran, to demand that Israel withdraw from Gaza without accomplishing its existential goals of finally defeating the hate/and/death cult that has ravaged Israel for much too long.

 

Asked in an interview with British journalist Mishal Husain on Friday in a 37-minute episode whether Canada's Carney would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on the ICC warrant, should he ever appear in Canada, Carney responded in the affirmative. This, following an earlier statement that Canada committed to recognizing a Palestinian state, eliciting at the time a note of appreciation to Canada from Hamas. The end goal, stated Carney "is a free and viable Palestinian state living side by side, peace and security, with the state of Israel".

 

Canada would will that to be. Despite that the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian population envision a one-state 'solution' to the presence of Israel on its own ancestral land, which the Arab Palestinians claim as solely their inheritance. Time and again, from 1947 when the first UN plan for Partition was refused by the Palestinians and grasped with gratitude by Israel, the Palestinian rejected all overtures for conciliation and the solution of two states side by side.

 

"You're going to have to keep up the pressure on the Israeli government to achieve a Palestinian state living side by side with a secure Israel", responded Husain. "Justin Trudeau (Carney's predecessor) said that Canada would honour the International Criminal Court arrest warrants i.e., Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he came to Canada. Does that stand under your leadership", asked Husain.

 

"Yes", said Carney. "You'd be prepared to do that?" Husain probed.

"Yes", said the Canadian prime minister.