Abandoning Israel, Pacifying Islamist Jihad

"We cannot allow the continued use of food as a political tool... Over 50,000 people have died as a result of the aggression caused against the Palestinians and the Gazan people in Palestine. Using food as a political tool is simply unacceptable."

"We need to continue to work towards a ceasefire. We need to ensure that we have a two-state solution, and Canada will continue to maintain that position."

Liberal Cabinet Minister, Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand takes part in the cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall when she took over the position from Mélanie Joly. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)

"Israel is [the] only country in the world that could be attacked on seven fronts and described as being the aggressor."

"Were doing everything we can to fight a terrorist organization and we're not going to fight it in a non-aggressive way."

Lt.Col. Nadav Shoshani

If, when Foreign Affairs Minister Anand made that statement to news reporters in a casual scrum, it seemed slightly off-kilter in a new-old government with a new mandate under a new prime minister, yet it took a week before there was any indication from Canada's new prime minister, Mark Carney that she was not speaking off the cuff on her own, but rather expressing this new government's position on Israel. Her predecessor famously/infamously made reference with respect to her own expressed antipathy to Israel that she had her constituents in mind; little did the Canadian public realize that the Trudeau government's betrayal of its longtime ally Israel ran through the Liberal caucus, with the same cabinet MPs reintroduced in the 'new' cabinet.

 

The latest statement of Canada's new foreign minister is to reveal that Prime Minister Mark Carney had spoken to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to 'discuss the  urgent need' for Hamas to release the remaining 58 hostages (23 of whom are believed to be still alive), 'lay down its weapons and have no role in Gaza'. A ceasefire, 'a two-state solution' and resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza was also discussed, she revealed. And then came the second part of Anita Anand's statement where she ascribed 'aggression' to Israel, imputing its starvation of Gazans as a weapon of war, clearing up the mystery of her boss's silence.

 

When Canada, Britain and France issued a joint statement in condemnation of Israel's military operations expansion in Gaza with their threat of concrete action, including potential sanctions against Israel. "We will not stand by while the Netanyahu government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response", they warned. No word of Hamas operatives warehousing looted humanitarian aid meant for the Palestinian civilian population. No word of continued rockets hurled by Hamas into Israel.

No word of the need for Qatar to 'influence' Hams to return all the Israeli  hostages, dead and alive without further delay. 

"Israel must halt settlements which are illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and the security of both Israelis and Palestinians."

"We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions." 

Palestinians break through the Israel-Gaza border fence on October 7, 2023, as terrorists  infiltrated areas of southern Israel. Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa, Reuters

When Hamas led an attack on southern Israel with the planned intention to carry out mass rape, to mutilate helpless women, children and elderly, to ransack and loot and burn agrarian towns and massacre their residents along with foreign farm workers, then after a death toll of 1,200, gather 250 helpless hostages; children, entire families, the elderly, male and female Israeli soldiers to be used as bargaining chips in future negotiations for the release of terrorists from Israeli prisons, Israel pledged to finally destroy the terrorist groups that had been attacking the Jewish state for decades.

 

Lt.-Col. Shoshani begged to differ with the leaders of France, the U.K. and Canada, reminding them that Hamas began the conflict with its ongoing violent belligerence capped off by its sadistic savagery on full display on October 7, 2023. And Hamas could, at any point since then, easily have brought an end to the conflict by laying down their arms, releasing the hostages, and surrendering their control of the Gaza Strip to a civilian administration. Instead it chose to use Gaza's civilian population as  shields and tragic puppets in death for their public relations campaign demonizing Israel as 'genocidal'.

 

France, Britain and Canada, with their intake of large numbers of Palestinians and other Muslims sympathetic to the publicity and strident claims of victimhood of Palestinians against the 'aggressor' Israel, which had never initiated conflict with Palestinians, and only ever responded to the never-ending acts of lethal violence in self-defense, have succumbed to the pressure of sufficient numbers of Islamists within their own societies to oppose Israel in hopes of appeasing their own Islamist hordes, in that classic move of 'feeding the crocodiles' among them. 

Western democracies choosing to take the statistics bruited by the Gaza Health Authority as believable, over the attestations of reality emanating from Israeli authorities. Choosing to ignore the reality that over the lifetime of the Jewish state, negotiations with Palestinian leaders over recognition of a Palestinian state went nowhere because while Israel gave concessions to achieve an agreement, none were ever given by the Palestinians. Their 'want' was the disappearance of Israel and the entire region dedicated to a Palestinian state. They never, ever desired a two-state solution. That was the goal of the West.

 

Palestinians make their way with belongings as they flee their homes after the Israeli military issued orders for evacuation from eastern Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

Conveniently Re-Assignment History to the Waste Basket

"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should today be at risk for attack by violent protesters."
"Yes, he [Sir Winston Churchill] sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial."
"We cannot now try to edit or censor our past. We cannot pretend to have a different history."
"Whatever progress this country has made in fighting racism — and it has been huge — we all recognize that there is much more work to do. But it is clear that the protests have been sadly hijacked by extremists intent on violence."
“Would it not be better and more honest to ask our children to understand the context, to explain the mixture of good and bad in the career of Churchill and everyone else?"
"I will resist with every breath in my body any attempt to remove that statue from Parliament Square.” 
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Police officers stand in front of the Winston Churchill statue during a rally in Parliament Square in London on Tuesday. Ahead of expected protests on the weekend, the statue has been boarded up. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/The Associated Press)

"It's clear that we're in the middle of a public health crisis. So it's not safe for them [protesters], it's not safe for the people around them [for everyone to be gathering in crowds during the COVID-19 pandemic]."
"Secondly, we do have information that people are intent on coming to cause violence and confrontation."
London Police Chief Cressida Dick

The statue of former British prime minister Winston Churchill is seen defaced in Parliament Square, central London after a demonstration outside the US Embassy on June 7, 2020. Photo by Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images.

In Britain, those styling themselves anti-racism protesters, taking the opportunity of the Black Lives Matter protests set off by the Minneapolis police killing of African-American George Floyd in the United States, have made demands of government and its agencies at every level, universities and other groups who sought to memorialize events and personages in history as part of the nation's heritage, that it is their intention to see that all vestiges of Britain's imperial past reflected in monuments and statuary, the naming of institutions and public thoroughfares be extinguished.

Damage and the assaults of graffiti declaring Sir Winston Churchill -- the WWII saviour of Great Britain, who stood virtually alone with his British Empire support against the axis powers supporting Nazi Germany until the entry of the United States of America following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour -- forced the British government to close off Parliament Square and to board up the parliament-facing statue of Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's war years prime minister whose pledge to the country to 'never give up' in the struggle against the Thousand-year Reich was fulfilled in Germany's defeat.

In the United States, where the protests first emerged in late May, statues erected to memorialize Christopher Columbus were destroyed by ravaging mobs of violent thugs; the statues disfigured in Boston and Richmond, Virginia last week. Black Lives Matter groups protesting the death of George Floyd have outdone themselves in their destructive fury, aiming their vandalism at Confederate memorials n the south of the nation; Richmond and Birmingham, Alabama, Charleston, South Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina.

In Virginia, a statue of Christopher Columbus erected in Byrd Park, Richmond, was pulled down, and thrown face down into Fountain Lake; a just end, the mob felt, for a man who violently abused the indigenous people he found occupying the New World, when he 'discovered' it in 1492. A bronze statue that was dedicated in 1927 in recognition of a great explorer. Back in London, its mayor, Sadiq Khan, supported the protests' claims that controversial monuments that cause offence be removed.

Churchill statue, Whitehall boarded up  Photograph: Blitz Pictures/REX/Shutterstock

The list drawn up by Black Lives Matter supporters includes statues of leading historical figures included among them, Sir Francis Drake, Nancy Astor, Christopher Columbus and William Gladstone "for celebrating slavery and racism", according to the campaigners. A figure of Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader, was thrown into Bristol harbour before councils and museums were able to tuck it out of view.

Over a thousand demonstrators in Oxford fixed a demand for the removal of colonialist Cecil Rhodes' statue. Mayor Khan remarked that he "hoped" a new commission for diversity in the public realm would recommend removal of memorials that "don't accurately reflect our values", in a mayoral bid to place history in the dungeon of a revisionist garbage heap. If you can't see it, it cannot have occurred. London had "an uncomfortable truth" with historical links to slavery, according to Mayor Khan.

  Baden-Powell statue in Poole. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

"Our nation and city owes a large part of its health to its role in the slave trade and while this is reflected in our public realm, the contribution of many of our communities to life in our capital has been willfully ignored -- this cannot continue."  Not all are in agreement with the mayor's assessment. An assembly member, Susan Hall, stated that "Instead of virtue-signalling and starting a divisive debate, Sadiq Khan should focus on his job"

A list of 60 statues, plaques and monuments was put together identifying which among Britain's rich history of movers and shakers were to be destroyed, according to anti-racism activists who declared the "need to be removed so that Britain can finally face the truth about its past". Charles II, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Nelson, Prime Minister Gladstone, Sir Francis Drake, and Charles Grey, the former prime minister who oversaw the abolition of slavery in 1833, all listed given their "responsibility for colonial violence".

The Cenotaph war memorial in Whitehall being boarded up on Friday. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Human Dignity

"[Dismissed], not because of any realistic concerns over the rights and sensitivities of transgender individuals, but because of my refusal to make an abstract ideological pledge."
"If you believe in gender fluidity, gender is no more than one's own fantasy about oneself."
"As a Christian, there's a conflict between what society says is a human right and my inability to use pronouns in this way."
"The very fact a doctor can be pulled off the shop floor for an urgent interrogation about his beliefs on gender fluidity is both absurd and very sinister, even more so if it results in a dismissal."
"If something like that happened in a church setting -- people being pulled out of a pew, questioned, and then excommunicated -- that would be seen as an outrageous example of religious intolerance and bigotry."
"I am, of course, aware that there are men or women who believe they have been trapped in a wrong body and I do not question the sincerity of their convictions. A small number of such people have always existed."
"Up until recently, such a belief was considered by medics to be delusional and a symptom of a medical disorder."
"I appreciate that in the present political climate, some people, including some of those who believe they are transgender, may find my beliefs to be offensive. However, in a free society, this is not a good enough reason to censor my beliefs and coerce me to act contrary to my conscience."
"Moreover, as a doctor, my responsibility is always to act in good conscience in the best interest of the patients -- not to adopt various fancies, prejudices, or delusions, to avoid offence at all cost."
Dr. David Mackereth, 56, emergency doctor

Dr David Mackereth said he wanted "the right to practise medicine as a Christian doctor" PA Media

"[You must follow the] process as discussed in your training."
"If however you do not want to do this, we will respect  your decision and  your right to leave your contract."
James Owen, supervisor, Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), Midlands, Great Britain

Dr. Mackereth, a Christian evangelist and also a medical doctor was called into the office of his supervisor at the Department of Work and Pensions where he worked as a disability benefits assessor. He was asked by Centre manager, James Owen how he would react in a hypothetical situation. That situation seemed quite implausible to Dr. Mackereth, informed both by his religious belief and his profession as a medical doctor.

How the question was framed was whether he would be agreeable, should a "six-foot-tall bearded man request of him to be addressed as "madam", or "Mrs.", to oblige accordingly. To most people such a request from such a source would represent a risible absurdity. Dr. Mackereth frankly responded that a request of this nature would be one he would be incapable of honouring. Who, quite honestly, would?

"If  you have a man, six foot tall with a beard, who says he wants to be addressed as 'she' and 'Mrs.' would you do that?" appears to be the verbatim quote in Dr. Mackereth's suit against the government agency at an employment tribunal alleging discrimination on the grounds of his religious belief. Dr. Mackereth made it clear to the Birmingham hearing that he believes transgenderism is a "delusional belief" representing an ideology "which I disbelieve and detest". Many would add 'amen' to that.

As a theologian with thirty years of medical experience, his position as a health and disability assessor began in May of 2018 at an assessment centre. An assignment that didn't last very long, given his suspension a month later when the "interrogation" by his supervisor resulting in his refusal to "call any six-foot-tall bearded man 'madam' on his whim", lost him that position. The tribunal was informed by Dr. Mackereth he was aware he would be "overwhelmingly likely" to lose his job without committing himself to the use of female pronouns in reference to an obvious physical male.

June 25, 2018 was his final day at work following an email exchange with Mr. Owen which instructed the doctor to follow the "process as discussed in your training". The consequence of not doing so was made abundantly clear when the following statement obliquely went on to spell out failure to comply would indicate Dr. Mackereth's "....right to leave your contract".

And while the doctor insists it was not his decision to resign his position, that he was victimized through direct discrimination and harassment, the Department of Work and Pension responds with the argument that Dr. Mackereth's views breach the 2010 Equality Act. The recruitment company which hired the doctor for the DWP stated the doctor's beliefs "are not compatible with human dignity".

Their views on human dignity and related lack of respect for Dr. Mackereth's have earned them a prominent place in the doctor's suit for religious discrimination. Dr. Mackereth's world and professional view remains that transgenderism represents a "rebellion against God, which is both pointless and sinful". Remove the reference to a spirit and replace it with Nature, and many would agree.

"If you have a man, six foot tall with a beard, who says he wants to be addressed as 'she' and 'Mrs.', would you do that?"    Getty Images