"Canada
supports international law. We have to trust that the institutions
we've built to protect international law are actually going to do their
job."
"Everyone
wants to support decisions on the international stage that they agree
with, but that's not the way a justice system works."
"It's
really important that everyone abide by international law. This is
something we've been calling [for] from the beginning of the conflict."
"We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts."
"This is just who we are as Canadians."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference in Sharon, Ontario, on Thursday November 21, 2024.Photo by Chris Young /The Canadian Press
Justin
Trudeau has altered Canada beyond recognition. He has, as promised,
taken Canada directly toward 'post-nationalism'. And in the course of
achieving that status, his open immigration, refugee and migrant intake
has been completely transformational. As has been his emphasis on
society of new Canadian values; out with the old, in with DEI, Woke, and
Critical Race Theory. Unions and Academic institutions have celebrated
these changes; the infiltration of liberal-left 'progressives' and
Islamist influences have been profound.
From
the very beginning of what Trudeau speaks of as 'the conflict', he and
his Cabinet cronies have issued statements and charges inimical to
Israel's reputation in their contortions of the facts and their
propensity to lay blame and responsibility on Israel for what
Palestinian terrorism has wrought. This is not what Canada is. Most
Canadians have had enough of Mr. Trudeau's wretched direction he has
taken Canada into and for a wide variety of reasons. For Canadian Jews
and their supporters the reasons are more personal; they abhor his
sanctimonious antisemitism.
Demonstrators fill Ste-Catherine St. during Friday’s protest.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
Amply
displayed in his tolerance for mobs of Muslim and Palestinian haters
and malcontents swarming the streets of Canadian cities with their
criminal cries of 'Final Solution', 'Globalize the Intifada', and
'Palestine will be free from the river to the sea', every declaration of
this nature a clear call for the destruction of the State of Israel.
The blockades and harassment of Jewish neighbourhoods, the attacks on
synagogues and community centers, the shooting up of Jewish parochial
schools and vandalization of Jewish businesses see no government action
at any level, led by the federal government to bring order and security
back to the streets of Canada.
So
it is hardly surprising that Canada's utter failure of a prime minister
hails the finding of the International Criminal Court that Israel's
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and its-then Minister of Defence Yoav
Gallant are found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in
their combined goal of punishing and destroying the intention of
Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and others of their ilk to continue
mounting deadly attacks on Israel and its citizens after the horrors of
October 7, 2023.
Canada's
Prime Minister-in-waiting, opposition Conservatives, will reverse all
the destructive moves made by the Trudeau government to return pride to
Canada.
In
Montreal on Friday, tens of thousands of pro-Hamas supporters and
university students created mayhem and havoc by rioting, attacking
police attempting to restore order, with the mob chanting anti-Israel
and anti NATO slogans. Violence was rife, with masked and kaffiya-clad
men and women making Nazi salutes and shouting invectives, smashing
windows of businesses and at the conference centre where a NATO meeting
was being held. And where was Justin Trudeau while this was going on? In
Toronto attending a Taylor Swift extravaganza, dancing to the songs of
the popular entertainer.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing backlash after a video
of him dancing at a Taylor Swift concert went viral over the
weekend. (Photos- X (Twitter))
"Israel
was attacked by terrorists on October 7. The warrant issued by the ICC
today against Netanyahu and Gallant claims their crimes started as early
as October 8."
"A day Israel was in shock, grief and mourning."
"The ICC discredits itself by its actions today."
Liberal Montreal Member of Parliament Anthony Housefather
"It just shows once again how extreme Justin Trudeau has become."
"The
prime minister of Israel is a democratically elected leader whose
country is responding to an unprovoked invasion, by thousands of
well-armed Iranian-funded terrorists who ... carried out mass rape and
other atrocities deliberately targeted at civilians."
"But instead, he's calling for the arrest of the country that has been the victim of all of these attacks."
Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
"The ICC arrest warrants for the former defence minister and the Prime Minister of Israel are outrageous."
"The
ICC is drawing a false equivalency between a liberal democracy and a
terrorist group that attacked that democracy last year."
"Conservatives stand for Israel's right to defend itself."
Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong
"Hamas needs to: Release the hostages. Drop their arms. Unconditionally surrender."
"We'll support a democratic ally's right to defend itself, not the false equivalency of the court."
"Canada has turned its back on Israel. It really feels like a betrayal."
"Canada
knows how Hamas has taken over UNRWA. Once [during the Conservative-led
Stephen Harper government] Canada completely stopped the funding for
UNRWA under a different government, because they understood what it is."
"They
understand that Hamas is controlling a 2.5 million population in Gaza
through UNRWA, supplying them services that are being paid for through
the international community ... and through that control they're able to
radicalize that population."
"[Canada's]
not helping the Palestinians because aid isn't being bought with that
money. It doesn't reach the Palestinian people. Hamas is taking half [of
the aid] and selling it in the market, so it can pocket that money."
"They're
turning schools and hospitals into military bases. They know that, yet
[countries] still contribute and even top that with more money."
"That
attempt of recognition of the Palestinian state, it was here in
Parliament [House of Commons in the nation's capital, Ottawa] where they
were trying to push it and trying to debate it -- it's absurd, this is
rewarding terrorism."
"What
will other terror organizations learn from that? Murder people, create
the worst massacre the world has seen in recent history and then hide
behind the civilian population? The international community will let you
off the hook."
Canadian-born Sharren Haskel, member of Israeli Knesset
The encampments at Canadian campuses have followed months of protest
marches, petitions, sit-ins and hunger strikes by pro-Palestinian
activists since Israel's military response to the Oct. 7 attacks led by
Hamas. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)
Under
its current government, headed by Justin Trudeau, Canada has undergone a
multitude of changes, none of which has resulted in better government,
or given Canadians a reason to be proud of their country. It is a nation
undone as a nation, and deliberately so by a prime minister whose
agenda runs counter to reason, justice and morality. In this particular
instance, a country whose government has chosen to turn its back on a
member-democracy that the government before this one supported
wholeheartedly. When Justin Trudeau came into the position of control of
the nation he described as 'post-national' he instantly turned around
the preceding government's ethical, moral, political, diplomatic
sureties.
We
have become a nation divided on many issues, moving offside social
mores, to natural resource extraction friction, from alienating West
from East and North from South, and issues of social and criminal
justice, of serving peoples' needs completely in collapse. Above all, a
significant portion of Canadian ethnic identity has been fractionalized,
endangered and isolated by actions taken by hostile factions within the
population campaigning against Israel and by extension Jews, through
loud, vulgar and slanderous antisemitism accompanied by violent criminal
acts, with no remedial action by the Trudeau government in upholding
the human rights of Canada's Jewish population.
In a speech to the Israeli Parliament in 2014, then-Canadian prime
minister Stephen Harper called efforts to compare Israel to
apartheid-era South Africa 'sickening' and 'the face of the new
antisemitism.' (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
Israel's
pain and grief in the aftermath of the horrors of the terrorist attacks
of October 7 in southern Israel have been set aside once the initial
shock settled, as irrelevant to empathetic recognition in an atmosphere
of volatile, threatening and violent verbal attacks against the
existence of the State of Israel, alongside physical criminal acts of
sabotage targeting Jewish-owned businesses, community centres, parochial
schools, synagogues and Jewish-majority neighbourhoods, with scarcely a
counteractive move by government.
The
disruptive marches organized by Palestinians and their supporters
echoing the situation of antisemitic activism taking place throughout
Europe and the United States, supported by left-wing 'progressives',
unions, environmental and LGBTQ-2 groups has been unprecedented and
demeaning of the social values of the West. Knesset member Sharren
Haskel, born in Canada, now a member of the Israeli parliament, decries
what she has observed of the direction that Canada has taken at the
United Nations, at Canadian universities whose campuses have been
allowed to fall to the Hamas-supporting factions of Jew-haters without
recourse to the law to uproot their divisive, destructive tactics.
University of British Columbia is among nine Canadian universities that have seen encampments erected in recent days. (Chuck Chiang/The Canadian Press)
Skyrocketing
antisemitism has shocked and threatened the well-being of diaspora Jews
everywhere in this unexpected tsunami of Jew-hate orchestrated by
Islamist thugs who feed off slumbering antisemitism in society, bringing
it to a crescendo of full-blown antipathy destabilizing law and order
while nothing is done to ensure the security of Jews and their social
and religious institutions from attack and demonization. In Canada, that
blase obliviousness of the government's obligation of duty to all its
citizens reflects pervasive antisemitism at the core of society.
The
sadistic sexual depravity of Palestinian terrorists against Israeli
children, girls and women, the wholesale slaughter of Israeli families,
the terror inflicted upon infants and teens, women and the elderly, the
murder of entire families burned beyond identification in their
vehicles, in their homes, on the streets of the kibbutzim, the hundreds
of young men and women killed at a music festival, the hostage-taking of
girls and women, the elderly and infirm, of infants and children, fails
to move the empathetic dismay and outrage of civilized countries beyond
the initial acknowledgement of the atrocities.
They
are now persuaded instead that Israel, in its
internationally-recognized right of response to such malignancy,
determined to destroy the terrorist ghouls who repeat at every
opportunity their intention to repeat October 7 endlessly until Israel
is destroyed and Jews are obliterated, is being bullied and threatened
by its 'allies' in democracy, by the UN General Assembly, by the
International Criminal Court, to cease and desist in its mission to
protect itself and its people from another genocide.
Reuters
Former
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government ceased its financial support
of UNRWA in the knowledge that its functionality as a UN operation
dedicated to the 'victimized' Palestinians' welfare in pursuit of 'right
of return' to overwhelm and destroy Israel as a Jewish state and
capture its ancestral territory for a state dedicated entirely to
Palestinian nationhood; a decision overturned by Justin Trudeau. The
United Nations Relief and Works Agency is a major employer of
Palestinians in Gaza, many of whom are members of Hamas.
Proof
was given to the world at large of UN schools built over underground
Hamas bunkers with rocket launchers metres from UN refugee camps. The
UNRWA Gaza headquarters hosted a Hamas data centre. UNRWA employees took
part in the savagery meted out to Israelis on October 7. The tent fire
that took place in Rafah following an Israeli airstrike meant to target
two Hamas officials did not occur as a result of the precision
small-impact bombs, but rather the ammunition depot installed close to
the camp exploded, lit by the bombs that hit their targets, resulting in
the deaths of dozens in the camp.
And
in Canada, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas protests organized by Palestinian
student groups from the days following directly on the October 7
atrocities, have roiled the public square, shutting highways, closing
access to public facilities, raiding shopping centres, blocking hospital
entrances, setting up blockages at bridges leading to majority Jewish
neighbourhoods, carrying posters reading "From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free!", in the absence of Israel. Signs congratulating
Hamas, flaunting the 'intefada', promising a 'final solution'. Jewish
university students and faculty are blocked entry to universities whose
campuses have become tent camps for the proliferation and promulgation
of antisemitism.
This
is a government for which no action is deemed required to put an end to
masked provocateurs fulminating and threatening and accusing Jews of
genocide against Palestinians. This is a shameful period in Canadian
history, but worse, much worse, a fearful time of living on the edge of a
threatening volcano being experienced by the Jewish community
worldwide.
"As we witness a surge in conspiracy theories circulating online, it is worth mentioning that the history of antisemitism
is full of these. Ideas about Jewish manipulation – spread among a
wider segment of the population – can also be used in relation to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They “explain” things such as the US
support for Israel and the positioning of western media."
"All of these historic deeply embedded conspiracies and antisemitic
beliefs feed into a fevered atmosphere where Jews can feel threatened
wherever they live, and this is, unfortunately, unlikely to disappear."
The Conversation
A French police officer sits outside a Paris synagogue. Data
suggests that attacks against Jews around the world goes up when there
is conflict in the Middle East.
AP/Alamy
"There
is widespread bipartisan support for aid to Israel in the House of
Representatives, yet this legislative branch is being held hostage from
within, undermining both American and Israeli national security."
"Our members are compelled by their faith to act on this issue, and at we shall."
Sandra Parker, chairwoman, Christians United for Israel
"I
chose to speak from my heart and from my experience as an immigrant
whose family escaped from the most brutal, radical Islamofascist regime
in the world: the terrorist Islamic Regime in Iran."
"We came to Canada because we wanted to live a better life."
"We embrace Canadian values."
Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari
Palestinian supporters hold a rally in downtown Toronto on Oct. 9, 2023. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Canadians
in general have seen their society upended in disagreements and they
have witnessed the strange phenomenon of their government hesitating in
its support for a Democratic state that has always had the support of
democracies throughout the world, including Canada, in recognition of
the legitimacy and the need for the existence of a Jewish State, to
preserve and protect embattled Jews from the Middle East to North
Africa, after the near-destruction of the world's Jewish population in
Europe.
Worse,
a government that no longer appears to feel there is any need to
support its own Criminal Code laws against promoting hate and violence
against an identifiable group, as week after week Muslim-Canadians who
have immigrated to Canada, along with refugees and migrants fleeing
Sectarian and tribal violence in their countries of origin march through
the streets of Canadian cities celebrating the Palestinian Hamas
terrorist group's incursion from Gaza into Israel to commit horrendous
acts of savagery on Jews.
The
explosion of antisemitism and the growing violence against Canada's
Jewish community inexplicably has drawn no level of government to
declare the hate-filled marches advocating for the destruction of Israel
and a 'final solution' for Jews intolerable, prepared to instruct
police to apprehend those involved and outlaw such displays of sheer,
unadulterated celebration of vicious atrocities committed against
southern Israel's farming communities where 1,200 Israeli civilians were
slaughtered.
When
Jewish lives were in peril during the Second World War, the Catholic
Church among others did nothing to admonish the leaders of the Third
Reich that their increasing acrimony, threats and final solution to rid
the continent of the presence of Jews represented a wholesale atrocity
of genocidal proportions. The Protestant Branch of the Church did no
better. Now, it is the evangelical Christians that have committed to
supporting the Jewish State, at a time once again when Jews are
threatened.
If
it is true as many would like to believe that not all Muslims subscribe
to the hate manifested by those who mask themselves with keffiyehs,
claiming Israel to be committing genocide against Palestinians by
responding to the mass rapes, murders, mutilations and hostage taking by
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Palestine Liberation Organization
and ordinary civilian Palestinians on October 7, and that the majority
are peace-supporting and hate no one, there is no evidence of it. That
there is an absence of Muslim-Canadian voices protesting the violence on
the streets, the criminal acts perpetrated against Jewish parochial
schools, synagogues, social centres, and businesses is the reality.
We
see and hear only those Muslim-Canadians who bear signage accusing
Israel and Jews of genocide for fighting back against terrorism,
advocating for the destruction of the Jewish homeland, persecuting Jews
on the street, at universities and blocking access to areas where Jews
tend to live in groups. Nowhere do we see protesting Muslim-Canadians
who accept Jewish-Canadians as equals, entitled to live in peace and
security among the steadily growing demographic of Muslims in Canada.
Why is that?
Member
of Provincial Parliament in Ontario Goldie Ghamari and other expatriate
Iranians who fled the Republic for a life of freedom, finding it in
Canada, openly support their Jewish counterparts. Theirs is a rare
commitment among the Muslims who have settled in Canada for a better
life, yet are adamant in denying that life of security, social comfort
and prosperity to their Jewish neighbours. Jews, under duress by fellow
Canadians whose antisemitism is audible and terrifying to the
Jewish-Canadian population never resort to vilifying Muslims for being
Muslims, threaten them, bomb their mosques.
The
Liberal government of Justin Trudeau is prepared to invite Palestinian
Gazans to find refuge in Canada, adding to the already large contingent
of Palestinians living in the country who foment hate and violence
against Jews. Justin Trudeau cannot find it in himself to condemn the
rampant antisemitism and criminal acts committed against Jewish houses
of worship without linking antisemitism as a proscribed and hateful
symbol of discord, to 'Islamophobia'. The infinitely larger number of
Muslims now living in Canada as opposed to a relatively small Jewish
population mitigates against this man of authority's responsibility to
protect Jews in the greater need to placate the larger voting bloc.
Holding US and Israeli flags, a crowd of largely Evangelical Christians
pray during the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) 'Night to Honor
Israel' during the CUFI Summit 2023, in Arlington, Virginia, at the
Crystal Gateway Marriott, July 17, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP
"The
rise of antisemitism poses a significant threat to the safety,
security, and well-being of Jewish communities within our town and
across the country."
"It
is imperative for municipal governments to express their concerns and
stand in solidarity with communities facing discrimination and
persecution."
"[Monday's
resolution cites the federal government's decision to distance itself]
from the longstanding policy of support for Israel [thus contributing to
a] major spike in antisemitism across Canada."
Hampstead, Quebec, non-confidence resolution
"Actions
speak louder than words. Justin Trudeau excels in rhetoric, but falls
short in action. The Canadian government must promptly take concrete
steps to shield our communities from further harm."
"Justin Trudeau has ... failed Jews across Canada and we are proud that we can take such a strong position on this."
"It
is a very strong message to Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party that
we do not support you and we are not confident in your ability to tackle
antisemitism."
"Due
to the lack of government support at all levels, every Jewish
institution in the country has had to fortify its security measures."
"Our
community has resorted to securing five separate legal injunctions
against pro-Hamas protesters who targeted synagogues -- a troubling
testament to the state of affairs in Canada."
"It's disheartening when private citizens must resort to legal recourse because those in power have failed in their duty."
Hampstead Mayor Jeremy Levi
Though
Mayor Jeremy Levi described it as symbolic, Hampstead's resolution says
it is imperative for municipal governments to "express their concerns
and stand in solidarity with communities facing discrimination and
persecution."Photo via City of Montreal
The
town council of the Montreal suburb of Hampstead has expressed a no
confidence position through a unanimous resolution, in the Liberal
government of prime minister Justin Trudeau, for his and its failure to
take substantive action upholding Canada's traditional support of
Israel in the United Nations, as a collegial Liberal-Democratic state
sitting alone in a Middle East sea of Sheikhdoms, Kingdoms and Petroleum
Dictators hostile to the Jewish state's existence. That it has also
failed spectacularly to offer security and safety to Canada's
long-standing Jewish community is beyond comprehension.
For
the town council, in a suburb that is comprised of a majority Jewish
residency, the opportunity arose for an assemblage of Jews in a
political position to assert itself in support of Canadian Jews in the
midst of a raging torrent of rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel's
military entering Gaza for the express purpose of demolishing the
terrorist group Hamas, which governs the Palestinian enclave. A
terrorist group, furthermore, that is listed on Canada's own proscribed
terrorist list. Despite which pro-Hamas demonstrations led by
Palestinian-, Arab- and Muslim-Canadians denigrating Jews and accusing
Israel of 'genocide', elicit no meaningful response from Justin Trudeau.
At
the town council meeting where the resolution passed unanimously, its
mayor addressed those present citing examples of antisemitism, among
them a Nazi-era-inspired caricature of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, portraying him as a vampire. And while Trudeau correctly
identified the cartoon as 'antisemitic', as did a number of other
Members of Parliament, and the newspaper, La Presse,
withdrew the cartoon and apologized, it represents a typical legacy
press slander against Israel in the wake of the October 7 desecration of
Jewish lives mounted by Hamas in Israel.
Hampstead
council also passed a legal initiative in the creation of a new bylaw
that prohibits removal of hostage posters, backing the bylaw with a
$1,000 fine, pointing the way that such small gestures can be effective
and emulated for that purpose by other politicians as incremental
measures to combat antisemitism. To above all, send a message that
Canadian Jews do not stand alone in the vast country they love where
they were born and have every right to the expectation of equal
treatment and respect from their countrymen, including recent immigrants
from Middle East countries where Muslim-majority populations' cultural
traditions victimize Jews.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks at a conference on
antisemitism, in Ottawa on Oct. 17, 2023. Last week, during a speech at a
synagogue in Côte Saint-Luc, Que., he provided a comprehensive glimpse
into his views on Israel, conflict in the Middle East and antisemitism. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
Located
in the near geographic vicinity to Hampstead is the Montreal Holocaust
Museum, where pro-Palestinian activists protested in early Mach, a
demonstration organized by the Concordia University student chapter of
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights which spoke of the October 7
massacre of Jews in southern Israel as "an unfaltering desire for liberation"; that they "hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for the escalating violence".
At that time, Mayor Levi wrote: "To
the Pro-Hamas demonstrators who gathered outside a Montreal Jewish
Community building, spreading anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments:
your disgrace is inappropriate and misplaced". Mayor
Levi spoke once more of his support for Conservative Opposition Leader
Pierre Poilievre, underscoring his confidence in his and his party's "ability to act decisively"
in the best interests of returning Canada to its traditional support of
Israel, and full acceptance of its responsibility toward Canada's
Jewish population.
Pro-Palestine rally in Montreal.Photo by Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press
"People
who exterminated Jews, Russians and Poles are alive. And the president,
the current president of today's Ukraine applauds him in the Canadian
Parliament, gives a standing ovation."
"Can we say that we have completely uprooted this ideology if what we see is happening today?"
"The
Canadian Parliament introduced a man who, as the Speaker of the
Parliament said, fought against the Russians during the World War II.
Well, who fought against the Russians during World War II? Hitler and
his accomplices."
"The president of Ukraine stood up with the entire Parliament of Canada and applauded this man. How can this be imagined?"
"The president of Ukraine himself, by the way, is a Jew by nationality."
Russian President Vladimir Putin
"It
might be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious,
'What is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much'?"
"'Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him'?"
News host Tucker Carlson
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President
Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Feb. 6. The interview aired in Russia early
on Friday morning. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin/Reuters)
Well,
actually, no, Mr. Putin. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian by
nationality. He is, by virtue of his ethnic origins, a Jew. For someone
who is quite particular about facts and figures to support a thesis of
Russian entitlement and ownership to a geography claimed by its national
inhabitants as sovereign, your grasp of origins and heritage leaves
much to be desired. But then, conflating Nazism and Jewry seems to fit
well in your puzzle of a Greater Russia.
The
Stalin who presided firmly over an eastern Europe that was forced to
surrender autonomy and sovereignty to the concept 'all for one and one
for itself' under the hammer and sickle also thought so highly of Jews
many of whom engineered the social and political structure of Communism
that he sought to butcher them all. And you yourself in emulation, focus
not merely on individuals of a whole, but a whole nation of those
individuals, aligning yourself with the vector of that nation's
extermination.
From
reality, fiction embellishes the truth and you are a past master at
embellishing fiction to resemble the reality. Every nation has its
diehard fascists, and although it's difficult to discern where socialism
leaves off and fascism takes up, they both target Jews through
everlasting hatred and contempt. Designing a campaign of occupation
under the rubric of 'saving Ukraine from neo-nazism' suited the special
military operation' otherwise known as a land-grab.
The
man hungering for greater notoriety and admiration as an icon of
interviewing prowess catered to your bruised ego most professionally,
Mr. Putin, as you silenced his queries and launched your professorial
lesson in aggrieved heritage and history with its outlines of reality
enhanced by deceptive claims of authenticity. What more could be asked
for than having an American whose reputation also has been bruised to
unctuously play to your paranoia?
According to Dmitry Peskov the interview with Carlson was agreed to, since "he has a position which differs" from other Western media. Where, according to Tucker Carlson, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was a mere "border dispute" the outcome of which fully revealed America's hatred for Russia. The Jewish-Ukrainian Zelenskyy characterized as a "dictator, a dangerous authoritarian". The Russian dangerously authoritarian dictator fully approved.
But
then an embarrassing and completely avoidable incident useful as an
example of the perfidy of the West and the revelation of Zelenskyy's
true political nature was revealed to Mr. Putin's satisfaction in the
Ukrainian President's being confronted in the Canadian House of Commons
with the presence of a venerable old Ukrainian-Canadian -- in fact a
veteran of the SS Galicia Division of the Waffen SS -- as a WWII hero.
The
Parliamentary Speaker of the House resigned in disgrace following the
revelation of 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka's wartime exploits with the
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, involved in massacres and war
crimes, including the deaths of European Jews, Roma and Poles.
"This was a mistake that has deeply embarrassed Parliament and Canada.
All of us who were in this House ... regret deeply having stood and
clapped even though we did so unaware of the context. It was a
horrendous violation of the memory of the millions of people who died in
the Holocaust", confessed Justin Trudeau.
Who
seems fond of speaking of the Holocaust as a world-shaking event
exemplifying man's inhumanity to man, decrying the institutionalized,
planned and executed murder of millions, yet somehow overlooking that
the Holocaust is specific to the Jewish experience. As when Canada
finally erected a Holocaust memorial, where the official plaque somehow
was etched to read regret over the deaths of millions of children, women
and men, yet never did the word 'Jew' appear.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tours the National Holocaust
Monument in Ottawa, Wednesday, September 27, 2017. The monument's
dedication plaque didn't mention the six million Jews killed during the
Second World War genocide. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
The House speaker resigned in responsible disgrace. "This only confirms our thesis that one of our goals in Ukraine is denazifiction",
Putin said. Justin Trudeau apologized, while his government claimed
Anthony Rota, the Speaker, was solely to blame. Only much later was it
revealed to the public that the same former volunteer for the SS Galicia
Division, Mr. Hunka, had been invited by the Office of the Prime
Minister to a Toronto reception for Mr. Zelenskyy.
"He
[ Putin] will, of course, use whatever propaganda he can engage in.
But I can tell you Canadians will not be fooled. So we will continue to
be there with Ukraine for as much as it takes for as long as it takes."
"Unfortunately,
we see the lengths to which Russian propaganda will go to try and
impact public opinion to try and twist things the way [they] want to."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Mr.
Trudeau would know all about propaganda and spreading false
information. He is himself quite expert at it. And Canadians have been
fooled. Much that has been promised to Ukraine has been well publicized,
yet never actually delivered. As for propagada and influencing and
impacting public opinion, there is never any end of it to suit Mr.
Trudeau's agenda in Canada; dividing Canadians, justifying abandoning
the nation's natural resources, creating massive upheavals in Canadian
heritage and culture through inappropriate mass immigration of people
whose culture and values are inimical to Canada's; and forcing an agenda
of Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, along with
Transgender issues.
For
Canadian Jews, this is a time of huge destabilization, when the spectre
of past antisemitic assaults on the Jewish community has flared into
life with a passion of hate manifested through labour unions, academic
institutions, and on the streets of cities across the nation with hordes
of 'pro-Palestinian' protesters marching in condemnation of Israel for
responding to an obscenely sadistic slaughter of Israelis by Hamas
terrorists in Israel on October 7. Where calls to exterminate Israel are
chanted and Jews are taunted and confronted, with no anti-hate laws
enforced by authorities.
A man stops to take a photo of the Canadian National Holocaust Monument
following its official opening ceremony in Ottawa, Wednesday September
27, 2017. (The Canadian Press)
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
'Canada is Back' Has Morphed Into Canada's Descent Into Hell
"[There is a] distinction between freedom of speech and freedom of hate."
"I
don't think that democracies allow people to hate and to incite, and I
think that that is something that is looked at very carefully in many
places, including Canada. [It is perfectly fine [if people feel strongly
about support for Palestinians]."
"The
only issue is, I think that we, as democracies, should look at ... when
is a line crossed that is between supporting a cause and between
changing our values in a way that incites hatred and violence and even
glorification of horrendous terrorist attacks."
"That's very, very important."
Iddo Moed, Israeli Ambassador to Canada
"To
all those who saw fit to promote genocide, glorify terrorism and mock
the murder of Jewish people, including women and babies -- the police
are coming for you."
U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman
"Let me be clear about Hamas. Its members are not freedom fighters. They are not a resistance. They are terrorists."
"There
are so many people in Canada who are afraid of the escalating tension
here at home. We must not let worry, suspicion and mistrust divide us."
"We
must remember that it is a short path from mistrusting one's neighbour
to entrenching division. A peaceful society does not happen by accident
and will not continue without effort."
"Canadians'
liberty is not about taking away the freedoms of others but living in a
way that expands and strengthens freedom for everyone."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
"People are free to state their own opinions, even opinions that I find abhorrent."
"That said, I’m free to state my opinion, which is that Hamas is a
sadistic, terrorist death cult and it must be defeated, and I find it
abhorrent that anyone in Canada or anywhere else would show their
support for Hamas."
"Hamas
is not a militant organization. It is not a government. It is not an
activist group; Hamas is a sadistic criminal terrorist death cult, and
it must be defeated."
"This
kind of peace between Muslims and Jews, between Israelis and Arabs [the
signatories to the Abraham Accords], would be a nightmare for Hamas and
for the dictatorship in Iran, which seek to perpetuate the conflict and
the divisions as a source of power. They need to perpetuate the hatred
in order to justify their dictatorships."
"It
is unthinkable that the IRGC can operate legally in Canada. It can
raise funds. It can prepare logistics. It can recruit new followers.
Some of the people attached to the highest levels of the IRGC live in
Canada today, their very presence terrorizing peaceful Canadians of
Iranian descent who desperately want to kick these terrorists out of our
country. They are right."
"The terrorists must be kicked out. This organization must be made a criminal entity."
Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
Hundreds
of people attend a pro-Palestinian rally in Mississauga, Ont. The rally
was one of many taking place across North America
and around the world this weekend. (Alexis Raymon/Radio-Canada)
Canada's
prime minister speaks of unity and division among people. He fails to
address the scandalous fact that disunity and division runs rampant in
Canada. It begins with his own actions, in alienating Canada's western
provinces from its eastern provinces. It carries on when protesters
arrive in convoys of dissenters to legally express their indignation
over an autocratic government that issues diktats and when people object
he names them as scum, homophobes, racists.
The
most recent examples carrying on from years of hate-mongering, are the
crowds of Canadian Arab and Muslim citizens and their followers,
including those illegally in Canada, who gather in numbers to decry and
foment hatred against Israel and Jews. The most recent propellant of
which is the horrendous slaughter of Israelis in villages and kibbutzim
by Hamas terrorists invading from Gaza, causing Israel to launch a
defensive/offensive conflict into Gaza to extirpate Hamas and its
sibling organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both offshoots of the
outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
In
Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia, among other Western
collegial democracies, these hate-filled, incitement-to-violence rallies
have seen remedial responses from authorities. Canada's prime minister
prefers to daintily deplore them, but will do nothing to forcefully put a
stop to them. Protesters who last winter arrived in Ottawa demanding he
resign merited the calling of the Emergencies Act and police dispersal
and trials. That was personal to him, going so far as to freeze their
bank accounts.
Pro-Palestinian supporters during a demonstration in Toronto on October 9, 2023.Photo by Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images
Arab
Muslims in Canada who promote violence against Jews and Israel, leaving
the Canadian Jewish community in fear, and necessitating that
precautions against violence be undertaken with a police presence and
guards around Jewish institutions fail to reflect the idealized Canadian
unity that Justin Trudeau hypocritically promotes, but does nothing to
ensure actually exists. Even welcoming into Canadian society people from
cultures that nurse ancient tribal and religious antipathies toward
others, incapable of adopting Canadian values, is an act of national
destruction.
Pierre
Poilievre, Justin Trudeau's political opposition in Parliament, calls
for Canada to take action on criminalizing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps -- the acknowledged financial supporter of Hamas -- listing
them as a terrorist entity. Hamas is on that terror list, yet Hamas
flags and even the black flag of the Islamic State appear prominently in
the anti-Israel Palestinian mobs that scream 'gas the Jews', suggesting
another try at a 'final solution' and other vile imprecations and
threats against fellow Canadian citizens.
Palestinian
groups in Canada came out immediately following the grisly news out of
Israel that an invasion of terrorist death-cult operatives from Hamas
had invaded border villages, towns and kibbutzes under cover of emerging
dawn on October 7 to massacre families in their homes, people waiting
at bus stops, stopping cars to kill motorists and passengers, raping
women beside the dead bodies of their friends at a music festival,
abducting babies, infants, teens, women, the elderly to use them as
hostages in exchange for criminal Palestinians in Israeli prisons. A
time of wild celebration for Palestinians.
This proved to be a week of many
revelations for Canadians, prompting many to question the character of
our country and its citizenry. Pictured: Pro-Palestinian protestors take
to the streets of Montreal on Oct. 8, 2023, mere hours after Hamas
launched its initial assault on Israel. Photo credit: The Canadian
Press/Graham Hughes
The
scale of the butchery, the evidence of torture, including forcing
parents and children to witness the mutilation each was undergoing
before delivering the death blows, was beyond mere inhumanity. In Gaza,
Palestinians rejoiced and celebrated over the slaughter. Palestinian men
and teens used the opportunity of the protective fence that had been
smashed through to enter those same villages to not only loot
possessions of the dead, but to commit murder themselves, some of them
the very Gazans who were permitted employment in Israel.
Palestinians
in the West Bank joined the congratulatory celebrations at the great
victory achieved by Hamas in murdering over a thousand civilian
Israelis. Those celebrations spread throughout the Middle East. That
such butchery is inconceivable to a civilized society merely emphasizes
that Middle Eastern countries in general, but certainly not all, are
firmly anchored in societal dysfunction, emotional and enlightened
stagnation of a heritage dating back millennia of tribal and sectarian
hatreds.
And
that very same syndrome is seen now throughout the world wherever Arabs
and Muslims have penetrated, shifting their presence in a great
diaspora of migration and bringing with them their heritage and cultural
values of Islamist dominance, detestation of social enlightenment as
they adhere to the precepts of Sharia, refusing to integrate themselves
with the laws and social mores of the countries they now prosper in
while spreading the fiction of colonialist victimhood of a people
returned to their ancestral home.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie
Joly listen to Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Keith Rowley during
a working session at the Canada CARICOM Summit, in Ottawa, Wednesday,
Oct. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
In
Justin Trudeau's Canada, disunity and division, hatred and incitement
to violence has been normalized. He speaks of justice and fairness, of
adherence to the law, of equality and security yet he has allowed Canada
to be manipulated by China, he has accepted the presence of people who
connive to disrupt life and security for other segments of the Canadian
population that they target for eradication and censure. His focus on
'feminism' of a type known only to himself; on the virtues of
celebrating the uniqueness of the trans community disruptive in their
infantile circus of theatrics further divides parental rights from
children's welfare.
There
is a vast litany of national failures in Canada now, thanks to the
Liberal government headed by Justin Trudeau who boasts of a once-proud
nation's post-national state of freedom, liberation, equality, diversity
and inclusion. Delusional myths of hatefully bickering disunity in a
country whose vast natural resources may no longer be exploited in
favour of achieving environmental balance which fails to meet the
demands of a global society capable of harnessing itself to respect for
nature and the environment while responsibly harvesting its resources.
The
most recent riots of celebrations over the barbaric murders of
innocent people, the torture of helpless civilians, the anguish over the
fate of hundreds of children, women and men of all ages and health
conditions in the hands of a remorseless murderous sect of religious
fanatics whose public relations enterprise seems to attract the world's
population of social deviants and psychopaths viewing the apathy in
reaction of other segments of society against the horrors of terrorism
sending us into a Dark Age of nihilism.
Inept, Arrogant, Out of His League: Justin Trudeau "Responsibly and Constructively"
"Obviously, we're going through an extremely challenging time with India right now."
"That's
why its so important for us to have diplomats on the ground, working
with the Indian government, there to support Canadians and Canadian
families."
"We're not looking to escalate, as I've said."
"[Canada
is] taking this extremely seriously, but we're going to continue to
engage responsibly and constructively with the government of India."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Indian police outside the Canadian embassy in Delhi last month. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
"He [Nijjar] had over a dozen criminal cases of murder and other terrorist activities against him in India."
"The
details of the cases were shared with the Canadian authorities, but no
action was taken except putting him on a no-fly list."
Senior Indian official
"In
moments of tension -- because indeed there are tensions between both
our governments -- more than ever it's important that diplomats be on
the ground."
"That's why we believe in the importance of having a strong diplomatic footprint in India."
"That being said, we are in ongoing conversations with the Indian government."
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, Ottawa
"Overall,
there are 21 key gangsters based in Canada who are wanted by Indian
agencies and their list and detailed evidence against them has been
shared with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on more than one occasion
in the past year."
Hindustan Times, September 21
"[Trudeau's
allegation] was not consistent with our policy. If his government had
anything relevant and specific they would like us to look into, we were
open to looking at it. That's where that conversation is at this point
of time."
"[The
issue of Sikh separatists living in Canada had long been] an issue of
great friction [notably after the 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182,
the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history]."
"In
the last few years, it has come back very much into play, because of
what we consider to be a very permissive Canadian attitude toward
terrorists, extremists, people who openly advocate violence."
"They have been given operating space in Canada because of the compulsions of Canadian politics."
Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
"Canada should not become a sanctuary for murderers."
"While killers find refuge in Canada and live comfortably, their victims' families continue to suffer."
Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen
Canada's
extradition system is a sore point with Bangladesh in its refusal to
extradite Noor Chowdhury, convicted of assassinating former Bangladeshi
president and founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Indian authorities
have been furnishing Canadian diplomats and its federal police force
with the names of Indian expatriates living in Canada against whom
serious criminal charges of plotting to overthrow the government of
India and being involved in causing the death of their critics whom
India asked to be extradited. Just such a list was also delivered
directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. All have been studiously
ignored.
Canada
has never been involved in any kind of conflict or nationalist
challenges taking place in India or Bangladesh. Within Canada, living as
citizens, are millions of emigrants from countries all over the world.
India alone has a significant number of expatriates, almost 2 million
Indo-Canadian citizens representing over 5% of the population. They are
divided almost equally between Indian Hindus and Sikhs who live quietly
as good law-abiding citizens. The exception is a small, vocal and often
violent sub-group of Sikhs agitating in Canada for a separate homeland
in India; Khalistan.
When
a Vancouver-area Sikh leader was murdered in early summer, charges in
the minority radicalized Sikh community had it that Indian state agents
were involved. Several weeks ago, Canada's prime minister stood in the
House of Commons to accuse "agents of the Government of India"
of murdering the man, Hardeep Singh Nijjar without offering even a
semblance of evidence, stating that it was all under investigation.
Under investigation, but Trudeau saw fit to accuse a friendly government
of sponsoring a murder in Canada.
Canada,
just incidentally, is the country where the S.S. St.Louis was sent on
its way back to Germany -- with terrified Jewish refugees begging for
haven from the death camps -- by a country like others around the world
that had no wish to burden themselves protecting Jews from an inevitable
genocidal fate by Nazi Germany. Not before the eruption of World War
II, not during its six tortuous years, nor following war's end. But
Nazis, Germans and other nationals who volunteered their services to the
Third Reich and swore allegiance to its Fuhrer encountered little entry
resistance.
Former
Nazis found Canada a comfortable place to live after the rigours of
mounting a world war and annihilating Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the
mentally and physically unfit, and members of the Canadian military
fighting with the Allies died and were wounded in their tens of
thousands for freedom, justice and to put a stop to the desolation of
inhumane intolerance and the mass slaughter of innocents. Jewish groups
living in Canada attempted for decades to persuade government to expel
the Nazis, to no avail.
And
several weeks ago, while welcoming Ukraine's Jewish
President-at-war-with-Russia Volodymyr Zelenskyy, unwitting,
ignorant-of-history Parliamentarians gave two standing ovations to a
special guest brought to the House of Commons to mark the occasion of
the Ukrainian President's visit and address to Parliament. That special
guest, a 98-year-old former Ukrainian volunteer member of the
SS-Galicia-Division comprised of ethnic Ukrainians who swore allegiance
to Adolf Hitler and helped in the slaughter of Jews and Poles.
Only
several days ago was it also revealed that the Order of Canada was
removed that had honoured yet another Ukrainian-Canadian who had fought
in the very same SS Battalion against the Soviet Union for Nazi Germany.
The shame that this has brought to Canada's reputation on the world
stage is incalculable. None of which seems to concern prime minister
Justin Trudeau to any great effect. He blithely goes about his business,
scorning those who reproach him for his obtuse ineptitude.
India,
incensed over Justin Trudeau's charge of state-sponsored murder, has
most recently conveyed to Ottawa that it expects 41 of 62 Canadian
diplomats to leave their missions in India by the following week. Short
of cutting off diplomatic relations entirely in response to an
unsubstantiated assault on the dignity and honour of another
government's behaviour while an investigation is ongoing, India has
voiced its displeasure with its ongoing relationship with a government
whose conduct is lacking moral rectitude.
"The prime minister started this in a way that
was clever, rather than strategically intelligent. You do
not make this kind of accusation against a fellow democracy, not to one
that is as influential as India, unless you have very solid
incontrovertible evidence. And if you don’t publish something credible,
you run the risk of walking into an Indian nationalistic trap."
"[Canada might have clear evidence that India was complicit in the
assassination of Nijjar amid reports that the US shared key
intelligence]. But having evidence is not
enough. International relations are very unforgiving. For a long time,
our prime minister has enjoyed a Teflon-like reputation. But once you
lose that, you have to be extremely careful."
"Historically, we have not bullied other
countries, we have not pushed our way around on the global stage. Now,
that image is being challenged and possibly badly damaged."
"It’s
unfortunate how avoidable this all was. Canada did not want to have a
major confrontation with India, but it’s a basic violation of
international relations – if you don’t want something to escalate, don’t
start the process in public. And if you do, you have to be prepared to
finish that fight."
Professor Aurel Braun, international relations and political science, University of Toronto
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) extends his hand for a
handshake with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau during a photo
opportunity ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi,
India, February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
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