The Inversed World of Palestinianism

• "The Nakba [Catastrophe] is not a political debate with 'two sides'. It is the foundational event of a continuous, 77-year campaign of displacement, military occupation, and colonization."
• "[Swipe through images] to challenge the false narratives and understand the reality of the Palestinian struggle."
• "Israeli Victim Card: As an Israeli citizen if I am accused of anything I am not criminally responsible. Any accusation against me will be fuelled by ANTI SEMITISM. If in doubt please refer to the Holocaust."
• "Four Israeli hostages were released as part of a prisoner exchange. In stark contrast, Palestinian prisoners often return home with clear signs of physical and mental abuse, a testament to the harsh conditions they endure."
• "As Israel faces humiliation on the battlefield against Iran, it turns its rage toward the most defenceless: the people of Gaza. In a display of cowardice and cruelty, it bombs homes, massacres families, and burns Palestinian children alive. This is not war -- it is a genocidal campaign by a colonial occupier desperate to maintain its grip through terror."                                               Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba (CPAM)

"It is standard museum protocol to work with advisory networks. This advisory network supported the museum in collecting the oral histories and artifacts of the Palestinian Canadians who will be featured in the exhibit [Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present]." Original response.

"This exhibit is the work of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights -- it is not a co-production with another association or organization. There is no agreement with any association for the development of this content." On second thought.

Amanda Gaudes, spokesperson, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

A new exhibit on the Nakba, recounting the personal experiences of Canadian Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes in 1948, is coming to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. However, at least one Jewish organization is concerned it will lack historical and current geopolitical context.  CBC

 

What irony, the founder of the museum, Israel Asper, visualized its purpose to speak to the world of the horrors of the Holocaust, that it never be forgotten as a signal event in the mid-20th century when state-driven genocide alongside a world war contrived to dehumanize European Jewry on their way to total annihilation. The museum has undergone a change in purpose from highlighting real instances of monumental human rights abuses to become a showpiece for propaganda against Israel, the Jewish state that rose on its ancestral geography from the ashes of six million lives -- half the world's entire Jewish population.

 

Canada, through immigration, refugee intake from war-torn Middle East and North African countries, and illegal migration, has become a cesspool of Jew-hate. Its rise accelerated by the savagery of the 7 October, 2023 flood of Palestinian terrorists into southern Israel from Gaza on a mission to destroy, sadistically terrorize and rape, mutilate and murder 1,200 mostly civilians, comprised of infants, children, the elderly, in farming communities close to the Gaza border. Slaughtered also were foreign farm workers, who were also taken hostage along with Israeli children, their parents, young adults from a music festival and soldiers.

 

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah and other terrorist operatives along with Palestinian civilians took pride in their atrocities, to the extent of documenting their acts of inhumanity on videos they later posted to social media. Their crimes included burning families alive, mass rapes, mutilation of girls and women amidst the rapes, forcing children to witness their parents being tortured and parents forced to watch their children tortured and murdered. All atrocities that Palestinians later claimed Israelis perpetrated on them.

 

Apologists for Palestinian 'victimhood' in the international community find reasons to overlook the barbarity, with claims that inhumane occupation made for desperate acts of people seeking freedom. Palestinians always had the freedom to choose their own destinies, but they mired themselves solidly in the self-serving delusion that the land on which Israel stood was theirs, resulting in constant murderous attacks on Jews at the very same time they portrayed themselves as victims and Jews their oppressors. In refusing a state alongside that of the Jews, Palestinians held out for destroying Israel and taking all the land -- ancient Judean patrimony. 

 

Gail Asper, president and a trustee of The Asper Foundation, speaks at the grand opening of the Canadian Museum For Human Rights in Winnipeg on Sept. 17, 2014. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)

 

Bringing their lurid grievances with them to Canada, Palestinians and their Muslim-Canadian supporters ply the fiction of victim and oppressor, denying that the atrocities of October 7 took place, irrespective of the much-celebrated videos depicting the horrors, and convincing a wide audience across the world of their 'cause'; being refused a Palestinian state of their own after turning down one Israeli negotiated proposal after another for a state in exchange for recognition of Israel's sovereign presence.

 

That the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has become yet another Canadian institution that supports the 'rights' of Palestinians to what they claim is theirs, and mourning the existence of the state of Israel as an instrument of Palestinian oppression, now engaged in 'genocide' after depriving Palestinians of their state, is yet another milestone for the public relations machinery that grinds away at the legitimacy of the Jewish state, along with that of Canadian Jews, monstrously slandered and threatened and isolated in the very country they have lived in for centuries.

 

The world is willing to acknowledge the 750,000 Palestinians who fled with the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, yet is totally disinterested in the 850,000 Arabized Jews who lived for a millennia and more in Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa who were exiled, their properties and goods taken from them in 1948. The Jews were never considered refugees, were never compensated, never given assistance from the United Nations. The Arab Palestinians, on the other hand, were given the eternal status of refugees, fully financially and politically supported by the United Nations.

 

Isha Khan, CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, said the Palestine Uprooted exhibit is still in development and will get the same academic and curatorial rigour as all exhibits. (CBC)

 

"Our recent victories 4 Palestine: 

• [PM Carney's recognition of a Palestinian state 
• Manitoba raising the Palestinian flag
• Nakba exhibit to "give space to stories long ignored ensuring that the truth of the Naka is taught, remembered and recognized"
• And we are just getting started

"[We are] honoured to contribute through the Palestinian Content Advisory Network ensuring this exhibit [at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights] reflects authentic Palestinian experiences."

Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba  

'Nakba' exhibit, Canadian Museum for Human Rights ... Displaced Palestinians walk along a road in Jabalia, as they leave areas near Gaza City, January 19, 2025. Photo: Omar Al-Qattaa, Getty Images

Gaza: Terror-Free Zone?

"Gaza will be a deradicalized  terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours."

"[Hamas members  who commit to] peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons [will be given amnesty]."

"[In time] conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood."

U.S. President Trump's peace plan

 

"[The] pride heroism, and honour [of the Palestinian people had] thwarted the Israeli occupation's plan for subjugation and displacement."

"[Hamas] will not abandon our people's national rights: to achieve freedom, independence, and self-determination."

Hamas' reaction to ceasefire plan

 

"With the approval of the first phase of the plan, all our hostages will be brought home."

"This is a diplomatic success and a national and moral victory for the State of Israel."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Thousands gather at Hostages Square to celebrate the return of the hostages, October 13, 2025.

 

If the nature of Hamas as a dedicated death-cult led to a preordained barbaric assault against Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023 for which Israel was unprepared, and the targets of the murderous rampage might never have imagined that such savagery would be launched against them, since those that lived in the kibbutzim and farming communities regularly employed their Gaza neighbours as farm labourers and were in total sympathy with their plight under Hamas, it follows that the government of Israel was preordained to respond with a full, all-out invasion and corresponding assaults on the Hamas terrorists.

 

The leaders of Hamas had long planned the details of the impending incursion into southern Israel. On the surface it appeared that their cult mission to destroy the Jewish state had abated with the weight of government in Gaza shifting to civic infrastructure, when the extent of the underground maze of tunnels under the Strip had not yet been fully realized by Israeli intelligence and its military. Only to discover their numbers and sophistication with the understanding that Israeli children, women and men were incarcerated there as hostages, abducted from their homes on October 7.

 

Hamas command posts and weapons depots established in Gaza hospitals, rocket launchers placed in the midst of crowded civilian enclaves, and Hamas operatives along with those of Islamic Jihad doffing uniforms to meld into the civilian population, leaving little option for the Israel Defense Forces but to bomb identified terrorist posts, buildings used as headquarters, communications, and planning centers with associated and unpreventable civilian Palestinian harms.

 

People wrapped in US and Israeli flags stand around a portrait of US President Donald Trump as they wait for the release of hostages from Gaza at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv early on October 13, 2025.

 

All of which fell as planned by Hamas; documenting the rising death toll among Palestinians as fodder for their public relations machinery geared to Western news media, gullible populations and governments, while destabilizing the Middle East and preventing Sunni Muslim governments from the momentum gained by Bahrain, the UAE and Morocco, continuing to swell the ranks of those making peace with Israel through the Abraham Accords. Hamas called upon its sister terror groups in Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon as well as their mentor-state Iran to swell their own Israel-demolishing ranks.

 

So, now, the world celebrates a ceasefire, hoping for a lasting peace between Israel and its Middle East neighbours and for the immediate moment, a cessation of military hostilities  between Israel and Gaza. Despite the serious losses sustained by Hamas in the two years since the  horrors of October 7's mass murder of innocent lives in Israel, the terrorists continued their rocket fire, joined by Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthis. Hamas glories in its supposed fighting prowess, lusts after Jewish blood, takes pride in its death mission.

 

Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/

 

There will never be peace in the Middle East while Hamas persists. And while Israel and Jews everywhere are joyful and relieved at the return of the still-living hostages, awaiting the full return of those who died in captivity along with the dead taken from Israel to Gaza, expectations that the ceasefire plan's points of Hamas surrendering its weapons, and leaving Gaza are not remotely credible. Much less the ease with which deradicalization of Palestinians from both Gaza and the West Bank under the PA can be accomplished.

 

Palestinian culture is based on clan loyalties, and while Hamas still reigns in Gaza however temporarily, an orgy of revenge-killings is on overdrive. Prominent Palestinian clans that ordinarily prey on each other and on the wider Palestinian populations who rival Hamas in its dominant role, are engaged in wholesale armed conflict with Hamas, even as Hamas hunts down those Palestinians it claims to be disloyal to their cause. Bloodshed is the order of the day. Public executions of Palestinians by Hamas as traitors become events enjoyed by other Palestinians assembled to witness the cold-blooded murder of fellow citizens.

 

How likely is it that this culture is prepared to become entirely civilized and accepting finally of a Jewish state, one they have violently opposed for 70 years and more? In a realm where Israel's population is accepting of over a million Palestinians as citizens, and where, should an Israeli Jew venture into Palestinian territory, it would mean instant death. How possible is it to wean millions of people taught from the cradle to infancy, teen years to adulthood to despise Jews and consider martyrdom in the act of murdering Jews to represent the highest point to which anyone could aspire? 

 

 

The Inhumane Cost of Conflict

"Humanitarian aid to Gaza?"

"No electric switch will be turned on, no water tap will be opened, and no fuel truck will enter  until the Israeli abductees are returned home."

Israel Katz, Israeli Defense Minister 

Many Gaza residents are suffering from long-term respiratory and eye issues due to using wood for cooking instead of scarce gas and electricity.   Photo: Fadi Thabet, Nuseirat

 

War is an unkind enemy of humanity. In Gaza, Palestinians suffer the impact of a war that the governing Hamas terrorists provoked. The savagery of the invasion of southern Israel by thousands of terrorists linked to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, lead by Hamas operatives was an exercise in unspeakable sadistic atrocities in the mass rape of girls and women, the  anguish they suffered through torture, the massacre of children, parents, the elderly,  and the abduction of infants, ailing men and women, held in Gaza to be used as trade pawns for Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons.

Proof exists that civilian Palestinians followed the terrorists in their invasion to prey on civilians living in kibbutzim that had employed Palestinians from Gaza in farm labour. Trusted Palestinians who broke bread with their Israeli employers, and who in turn revealed to Hamas commanders planning the invasion, valuable details of the farming villages and their security protocols. Israeli hostages were held not only by Hamas terrorists, but by Palestinian civilians as well; mistreatment of the hostages was universal; humiliation, rape, deprivation of fresh air, of food and water.

Israeli children, women and men who were forced to live in tunnels, deprived of sunlight, of hygiene, of medicine for chronic health conditions, whom even the International Red Cross made no effort to make contact with. The threatened, abused and starved Israeli hostages served a purpose that the terrorists exploited; held in part by civilians working with Hamas, a significant number perished. Despite the Israel Defense Forces search for members of Hamas with the firm intention of permanently destroying the group's capacity to ever again prey on Israelis and Jews, missiles continue to rain down from Gaza to Israel.

 

Palestinians crowd around a bakery in Gaza. Photograph: Fatima Shbair/AP

 

How likely is it that any nation whose military is on the offensive would constrain their military targeting to protect civilians as Israel does? The civilian casualty rate in Gaza has been steep, as it has been in any conflict anywhere in the world. Hamas commanding elites made it clear in public fora that they have no intention of relenting in their goal of destroying Israel and murdering Jews; pledging to repeat the October 7, 2023 butchery over and over again until no Jews would be left. 

Gazans are now and have been for a year, living with major life inconveniences. Apart from the need to constantly move from one area in the Gaza Strip to another in advance of IDF planned attacks on Hamas infrastructure, their impermanence has necessitated that they live rough amongst destroyed and crumbling infrastructure  in many areas. There is a lack of potable running water, and no electricity. The lethal designs of Hamas created complete destruction, insecurity and the potential for death in the Gaza population, given the terrorist group's propensity to situate themselves and their weaponry in the midst of heavily populated areas.

 

Israel launched retaliatory strikes on Gaza after the attacks by Hamas  Reuters

 

"Every night is a struggle for us", 36-year-old Abu Amra says, living in Deir al Balah, central Gaza where she now cooks over a fire and laundry is done by hand. Israel, pre-Oct 7 attack supplied Gaza with electricity. In the immediate aftermath of the atrocities, the electricity to Gaza via Israel was shut down. The Palestinian population of Gaza which, in the vast majority favours Hamas rule and approves of the attack, whose result is the reason they now suffer may or may not now regret that choice. More likely they credit Israel alone with their suffering.

The electricity infrastructure of Gaza suffered over the years as a result of previous conflicts that Hamas had been responsible for initiating. The funding that Hamas has received from humanitarian groups, the European Union, the United Nations and Western democracies in general  has not gone into upgrading the civil infrastructure of the Strip, much less its electricity and water grids. It was used instead to create the massive, sometimes-sophisticated tunnel system that runs under the territory.

And while there are many civilians in Gaza for whom life has become a misery of scarcity of everything one depends upon in life in the modern era, there are those among them who view the current situation as a splendid opportunity to become wealthy over those scarcities and the misery of their fellow citizens. Like 23-year-old Mohammed Samra who bought solar panels for a new family business in central Gaza where he charges one shekel to charge a cellphone.

Police officers keep guard at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

And So, Canada, Were You Invaded?

"Yemen, Yemen, make us proud! turn another ship around!"

"Gaza called, Yemen answered. All Israeli ships are cancelled." 

Canadian anti-Israel rallies

"Why is it always the non-Iranians who support the terrorist Islamic Regime in Iran?"

"As an Iranian-Canadian, it makes me sick to my stomach to see my fellow Canadians openly supporting a terrorist Islamofascist dictatorship that murders innocent Iranians."

"This is not the Canada my parents immigrated to in order to escape persecution by the terrorist Islamofascist Ayatollahs."

MPP Goldie Ghamari

Palestinians and supporters congregated at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square two days after the October 7 massacre by Hamas in southern Israel. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

 

Cities in Canada saw wild scenes of open celebration even before news emerged of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Islamic Republican Guards Corp having launched a prolonged direct air attack on Israel. There is little doubt that many Iranians living in Tehran and detesting their ruling Ayatollahs viewed this event with sorrow. In Canada, the majority of the Iranian diaspora who arrived post-Iranian Revolution were anything but pleased. Which didn't stop the abundant presence of Palestinians, Syrians and other Middle East diaspora-Canadian-Arabs from jubilantly celebrating the event.

Keffiyeh-wearing demonstrators were seen in one circulated video cheering, banging drums, and sending up celebratory smoke bombs, while a speaker declared the wonderful news that "the Islamic Republic of Iran has just sent tens of drones toward Israel"; a 44-second video posted by Caryma Sa'd, Toronto lawyer who often documents such events taking place in Toronto. "Protesters react to breaking news of Iran launching drones at Israel in retaliatory attack for a strike which killed a top Iranian commander", he captioned.

 

 

This was April 14 when the IRGC air division launched over 300 drones and ballistic missiles into Israeli airspace. Israel and its regional and international supporters were prepared; forewarned of an imminent attack, they had their warjets on standby and reacted according to plan, knowing it would take up to seven hours for any of the missiles and 'suicide' drones to reach Israel. Israel, the United States, Britain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates all had a hand in ensuring that none of the deadly projectiles reached their intended goal.

One can only imagine the dejection and disappointment of the celebrants of Iran's attack must have felt when it was announced by the Israel Defense Forces than the upshot of the Saturday/Sunday declaration of war turned out that 99 percent of the weapons were shot down. A 7-year-old Bedouin child in Israel was the sole unfortunate casualty when detritus from a destroyed missile fell on her family home, as was a lightly-impacted northern-Israel air base, which continued operations afterward.

 

People carry a Palestinian flag during a rally in front of City Hall in Toronto, October 9, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/Kyaw Soe Oo)

 

The Canadian celebrabrants were not to be put off by reality, continuing into Sunday. On the Instagram account of Ottawa4Palestine a speaker in Ottawa sang an improvised ditty to the tune of Yankee Doodle with the phrase: "leave Palestine alone and Jews go back to Europe". Another video of a Montreal rally featured demonstrators changing "put the bullet in the house of fire ... we are your men, Sinwar", referring to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of October 7's bloodthirsty savagery in southern Israel.

An Iranian exile in Calgary -- Bahar Bahari, long a vocal critic of Iran's theocracy, and a frequent attendee at pro-Israel demonstrations had posted the Montreal video. The Jerusalem Post took note of the celebrations in Canada, publishing the headline "Toronto protesters cheer as Iran fires drones at Israel", even while Israeli counter-batteries just completed the last of the incoming missiles being shot down.

The burgeoning anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian movement has been defiantly open with their hate messages against Israel, their threats against Canadian Jews, and their masked presence, disrupting traffic, blocking bridges, issuing insults against Canadian police forces, harassing Jewish business owners and Synagogue congregants, although their actions and activities defy Canadian hate law. Issues of violence perpetrated on Jewish parochial schools, Jewish social centres and Synagogues remain unsolved.

Key organizers of the hate-fests against the Jewish state are well known for their activities, bordering on and often substantially illegal criminal acts; Toronto4Palestine, Samidoun and the Palestinian Youth Movement who organized joyful rallies within hours of the ghastly October 7 mass rapes and massacres. Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea have also been matters of organized celebrations thanks to these organizers, all of whom if the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau was the least bit interested in security and following their own laws against terrorism would join Canada's list of terror groups.

Two rallies were held in Halifax on Thanksgiving Monday — one in support of Israel, the other in support of the Palestinian territories. (Jeorge Sadi/CBC)

Legacy Media Bias: Quoting Hamas, Doubting Israel

"We would love to see Hamas vacate the hospitals that it's using [as] command posts immediately."

"We would love to see all the people calling for Israel to take steps to protect hospitals [to] call for Hamas to vacate the hospitals and stop using civilians as human shields."

"We would love to see Hamas take some of the fuel reserves it's sitting on and use that to supply hospitals in northern Gaza."

"We would love to see Hamas have taken the fuel that Israel offered it yesterday, that they declined, for use at Al-Shifa hospital."

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller

Smoke rises as displaced Palestinians take shelter at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, November 8, 2023.

(photo credit: REUTERS/DOAA ROUQA)

How strange it is that reputable, 'legacy' news outlets such as the wire services that so many print papers take their stories from reporting on the ground in Gaza base their versions of events primarily on statements produced by Hamas officials who, representing the interests of the terrorist group are known for their extraordinary facility in evading the truth and embellishing falsehoods for public digestion. And the public does digest the Hamas version of a reality that exists in the world in their heads as is evidenced by protesters gathering in huge numbers in cities worldwide to express their rage with Israel defending itself against the vile, lethal sadism of Hamas savagery.

 

The Israeli military screened footage taken from bodycams worn by Hamas, CCTV, dashboard cameras and mobile phones

 

Yet it is Hamas that is defended in these protests that label themselves 'pro-Palestinian'. Where congratulatory huzzahs ring out for 'the resistance', and candies are handed out in celebration of the great victory in torturing, mutilating, raping, beheading, children, women, teens, the elderly. Where entire families taking shelter in their 'safe rooms' in villages and towns at the Gaza border in Israel, die a gruesome death when their homes are set afire, or grenades are tossed into their homes.

The courage it takes to defy the basic tenets of human rights by depriving people of their lives, of terrorizing helpless people by the sadistic actions of heavily armed Hamas operatives rounding up the vulnerable, from infants to grandparents, the infirm, girls and women, and of course a handful of soldiers to be hauled back to Gaza as hostages. Truly a command performance. One that has commanded the attention of 'pro-Palestinian' admirers. Who, before the IDF had the opportunity to respond on that fateful October 7 day, brought out gangs of people protesting Israel's 'disproportionate' response.

"Fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants escalated near and around Gaza City's besieged and overcrowded hospitals, which Palestinian officials said were hit by explosions and gunfire", a Reuters recently published report read. Quoting 'Palestinian officials' aka Hamas operatives who prefer being referred to as 'militants' rather than terrorists and legacy media is pleased to comply. Had they done their due diligence they would have known that no IDF explosions and gunfire occurred at those hospitals other than in response to Hamas's initiatives.

 

Hamas video provided by Israel Defense Force

 

This is a war, caused not by Israel, but by a terrorist group whose purpose of existence, according to its charter, is the full destruction of the Jewish state, and its people. Reuters went on to quote the Shifa Hospital director, claiming Israel was "launching a war on Gaza City hospitals", accusing Israel of targeting a school [despite that schools have been closed], then discussing "missiles" that "landed in the courtyard of Al Shifa"; the result of yet another rocket directed at Israeli forces misfiring.

Then, there's Associated Press reports picked up by the major news, noting Israel's contention that Hamas operates a subterranean base located directly beneath the hospital, claiming it repeated Israel's assertion "without providing evidence". When in fact, weeks before the Israel Defense Forces had presented "concrete evidence" to journalists that included intercepted communications and admissions by a number of enemy combatants that Hamas built a network of tunnels beneath the hospital where hundreds of terrorists "flooded into the hospital" following their massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7.

 

Hamas weapons found inside Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, following a raid by Israeli special forces, November 15, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

 

Hamas exploits the hospital's generators to power its underground bunker, using energy that could be maintained for babies in incubators, along with other medical equipment no longer usable with no source of electricity. Hamas terrorists are seen on video firing from inside Sheikh Hamad Hospital, at Israeli forces. An invitation to the IDF to fire back; 'evidence' of Israel's 'atrocities', in attacking Gaza's hospitals. The videos of the IDF uncovering a tunnel entrance from Sheikh Hamad Hospital and a command-and-control centre where a large weapons cache was hidden below a children's hospital are now in the public realm.

Reputable international media outlets and anti-Israel protesters will not give credence to the overwhelming evidence of Hamas's ongoing war crimes, even as the organization makes little effort to screen its use of civilians as human shields. An open letter published last week signed by over 1,200 reporters, editors, photographers, producers and other workers in newsrooms around the world, laments the death of 36 journalists during the course of the war, accusing Israel of "lethally targeting journalists" while hailing the "brave efforts" of "our colleagues in Gaza".

Nothing seems to stop a bigoted media of using inflammatory and false terms like "apartheid", "ethnic cleansing", and "genocide" in connection with Israel, while accusing Israel of committing war crimes. No evidence required in that case. Evidently murdering children and babies, sodomizing girls and young women and taking hundreds of civilian hostages is justified, as long as the victims are Jews.

In this image taken from a video released by the Israeli Defense Forces on November 15, 2023, Israeli soldiers walk in the area of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

Keeping Civilians Out of Harm's Way

Bipartisan candlelight vigil with members of Congress to commemorate one month since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel  (Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

"The human tragedy that is unfolding in Gaza is heart-wrenching, especially the suffering we see in and around the Al Shifa Hospital."

"I have been clear that the price of justice cannot be the continued suffering of all Palestinian civilians. Even wars have rules."

"[Hamas needs to stop using Palestinians as human shields and release all hostages] immediately and unconditionally."

"[The violence urgently needs to stop] so that Palestinians can get access to life-saving medical services, food, fuel and water, so that all hostages can be released, so that all Canadians and other nationals can leave Gaza."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

 

"@Justin Trudeau...It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust."

"While Israel ls doing everything to keep civilians out of harm's way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way. Israel provides civilians in Gaza humanitarian corridors and safe zones, Hamas prevents them from leaving at gunpoint."

"It is Hamas not Israel that should be held accountable for committing a double war crime -- targeting civilians while hiding behind civilians."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend a ceremony in Paris on November 11, 2018 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War. Photo by Francois Mori/AFP/Getty Images/File

The problem here is that it is the Israeli prime minister who is facing a dilemma; wholly invested in ensuring that Hamas will never again be capable of slaughtering Israelis because they are Jews, while at the same time Israeli forces are responding to the terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel, aggressively searching out the terrorist Hamas operatives in their densest most civilian-occupied areas, primarily Gaza City, while care is observed to keep civilian casualties to a minimum.

Even while the Israel Defense Forces have been dispatched to Gaza to rout out the terrorists, Hamas and Islamic Jihad have never stopped bombarding Israel with rockets, aimed at Israel's civilian population. When Israel warned Gazans to move south in the event of the IDF entering the northern regions of the Strip, Hamas ordered its civilians to remain where they were -- to be defiant -- but the agenda really was to continue their role as sacrificial martyrs to the Hamas death-cult imposed on Israel.

Netanyahu's rebuke of a democratic colleague who has never faced such a dilemma offering suggestions that appear to equate the legitimacy of a military fully involved in securing the safety of civilians while engaged in an existential battle for security for its population -- with the actions of a terrorist group that precipitated the war. Trudeau has shown himself time and again prepared to assume the worst of Israel, taking the word of Hamas, an organization listed on Canada's own terrorist list, over that of the Israeli authorities.

In repeating the Hamas mantra of Israel committing genocide by killing women, children and babies, Trudeau has selected terrorist propaganda over the concerns of a Western liberal democracy doing all it can under the circumstances to ensure that women, children and babies are as safe from harm as can be possible in a war situation where they are abused as human shields. Israel has carefully and selectively entered parts of Gaza's hospitals in its search for Hamas operatives in the knowledge that the terrorists use hospitals as covers.

Hamas command centres are set up in and under hospitals, a reality that both Hamas and the medical staff at Shifa Hospital deny. Urging "maximum restraint" upon Israel expresses a total lack of understanding of the situation and the care taken to exercise just that. War was mounted in the wake of a vicious surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on Israeli communities bordering on Gaza, where an estimated 1,200 mostly civilians were subjected to mutilation and murder; women raped, children killed in their homes alongside their parents.

Trudeau's foreign affairs minister, Melanie Joly, terming the situation unacceptable, mimicked the concerns of her political governing leader: "Civilians must be protected and enough food, fuel and water must get into Gaza so that [the UN's] life-saving work can continue"; an obvious concern to Israel, grappling with the humanitarian crisis that it did not create of its singular volition. And while Trudeau stopped short of calling for a 'ceasefire', his foreign deputy went considerably further.

It was her considered recommendation that Israel sit down with Hamas and Qatar to discuss a cessation of 'hostilities', a return of the hostages and everyone will be reconciled. In the face of the atrocities committed by Hamas, in the reality of Qatar harbouring Hamas leaders, and funding its operations, precisely who is it that this woman is recommending that Israel trust and bargain with?

Hamas terrorists move Israeli hostages down a street in Be’eri, a kibbutz in southern Israel, video posted to X shows

(Photo: Screenshot)