For Shame, Canada

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

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

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

 

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

"Make it make sense."

Casey Babb, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute 

 

"What?"

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

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

"Astonishing!"

Conservative Member of Parliament Roman Baber

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

"Yes", said the Canadian prime minister. 

 

 

Cruel and Malicious Agreement Violation

"We will work with determination to bring Shiri home together with all our hostages -- both living and dead -- and ensure that Hamas pays the full price for this cruel and malicious violation of the agreement."

"The sacred memory of Oded Lifshitz and Ariel and Kfir Bibas will be forever enshrined in the heart of the nation."

"May God avenge their blood. And so we will avenge."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 

"[We have] no interest in retaining any bodies."

"[We have] demonstrated full compliance with the agreement [in recent days and remain] committed to all its terms."

"We reject Netanyahu's threats."

Hamas statement 

Yarden, Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas 

 

The body of Oded Lifshitz, 83 when he was abducted on October 7, 2023, was returned to Israel in a casket. This was a man who lived in a kibbutz on the border of Southern Israel with Gaza. He was an exponent of peace between the two neighbours. And he arranged to pick up and deliver Gazans, including Palestinian children to  hospitals in Israel for medical treatment. He and those others like him who lived in the border kibbutzes believed in peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

 

Palestinian farm workers found regular employment in the Israeli kibbutzes, enabling them to earn a wage far superior than anything they could find in employment-bare Gaza. These Palestinian farm workers became familiar with the Israelis among whom they worked. Comfortable enough that they all ate their meals communally in the kibbutz's dining halls. And it was from among these trusted Palestinian farm workers that Hamas operatives planning the October 7 invasion of the kibbutzim were given hand-drawn maps of the kibbutzes, including which of the structures held members of each kibbutz's security team.

 

Some of the Palestinian civilians accompanying the  terrorist groups during the invasion were familiar to the terrorized Israelis who were being raped, dismembered and slaughtered. Oded Lifshitz was one of them. Of the four caskets that were delivered in a handover from Hamas to the Red Cross, then to waiting Israeli IDF members, two were tiny affairs, holding the bodies of a four-year-old child and a 10-month-old infant, sibling brothers, Kfir and Ariel Bibas.

 

 

Their mother Shiri Bibas was purportedly in one of the two large adult-sized caskets. All were taken to the forensics unit for verification of identity. It was quickly evident that it was not Shiri Bibas in the casket meant to hold her, but the body of an unknown woman from Gaza. Devastating news for her waiting family members, already wholly traumatized by their experiences of the past fifteen months, and particularly so for her husband Yarden, father of their two babies.

 

Hamas responded to the revelation and the fury of Israel by demurring over malicious intention; no, never would they be so inhumanely sadistic, and they would "conduct a thorough review" of the information with respect to the body. Moreover, they demanded the immediate return of the body in Shiri's casket, that of a Palestinian woman. What occurred, they said was an error in remains resulting from Israeli bombing of the area where the Israeli hostages had been held. The following day another casket was  delivered, this time confirmed that it held the body of Shiri Bibas.

 

IDF officers salute a casket containing the body of slain hostage Shiri Silberman Bibas, late on February 21, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas had informed Israeli authorities a year ago that the Bibas family, mother and two infants were killed in an Israeli bombing raid into Gaza. They set up a video featuring Yarden Bibas, held separately from  his family, taunting him with the information that his wife and children were dead. No one in Israel believed they were dead, and Yarden, released from captivity two weeks earlier, held steadfast to the idea that they were alive and would be released to him. 

"We identified Shiri Bibas two days after we identified her children. Our examination found no evidence of injuries caused by bombing."

"[The medical staff at Abu Kabir had worked] professionally and carefully to provide clear answers to the Lifshitz and Bibas-Silberman families [since receiving the bodies, first on Thursday and then on Friday night]."

"It’s a difficult day for the families, for us, the medical staff, and for the entire nation of Israel."

Dr. Chen Kugel, director of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) 

On Friday, Israeli Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari cleared  up the Hamas contention that the Bibas babies had been killed along with their mother in an Israeli air strike. Dr. Kugel, the pathologist had already stated that mother Shiri had not died of wounds consistent with an air strike. Then came the statement from Rear Admiral Hagari: "The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys — they killed them with their bare hands. Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities." 

Shiri Bibas is led into Gaza by her Palestinian abductors, carrying Kfir and Ariel in her arms

Celebrities Supporting Israel

"We are not all right ... when we see grandmothers being pulled away and children shot in front of their families."

"We are not all right when right here in the city of New York you have those who celebrate, at the same time when the devastation is taking place."

New York Mayor Eric Adam, October 10

 

"We are not OK. Something's really broken in the world ... to see the whole world kind of in this state of moral paralyzation for whatever reason, trying to find some context for these evil acts, that made me very angry, and very scared."

"I've gotten a little sense of what it['s like to be Jewish in the last couple of months. But what I say to them is, 'Those are the same arguments people used in 1938 before the Holocaust'."

"If everybody spoke up and had moral courage or clarity, this war wouldn't be happening."

John Ondrasik, American singer-songwriter 

"I know for sure the atrocities and ensuing celebrations committed by Hamas are inexcusable  and unjustifiable ... Israel is our friend and ally."

"They don't need us to just be their friend in good times. They need us to be their friend in bad times. To be their friend when it is easier not to be..."

"this is a really great time to show Israel and the world who we are."

"I'll give  you some context [Claudine Gay, Sally Kornbluth and Liz Magill]. While you were intellectually selling out, bringing shame to your institutions and this country, I was working with the Israeli consulate viewing the highly restricted footage of Oct. from actual body cams of terrorists themselves, victims' cellphones recovered from their dead, tortured, raped, desecrated bodies, as well as raw CCTV footage and other sources."

Dr. Phil McGraw, Talk show host

 

"When I first watched the 17-minute video I didn't wish seeing that upon anybody -- not being able to sleep at night, imagining it was you, your family or kids."

"I now feel every kid on every college campus unfortunately needs to see this video because without it you do not have the whole picture."

"I believe the majority of you are good people and when you see this video you will absolutely agree that Israel has been on the frontlines defending us from what I saw."

"Without Israel, that will happen to all of us."

"When I received thousands upon thousands of messages of gratitude, [after addressing Canada's Rally for the Jewish People on Parliament Hill in December] I realized it's because there's not enough non-Jewish people to stand up." 

"I'm proud to stand up for the Jewish community against terrorism and online bullying. I'm here to inspire other people -- non-Jewish people -- to do the same thing. Thank you guys. Sending you all so much love. I love each and every one of you and I will never shut up."

Caroline D'Amore, entrepreneur, reality TV star, founder, CEO Pizza Girl Inc.

"I'm in a business that's about imagining," says actor Susan Sarandon. Sarandon joined CODEPINK on Capitol Hill on Feb. 15, 2024 to protest U.S. support for Israel's bombardment of Gaza.

We hear and read about celebrity figures in the arts, in popular culture, in Hollywood, condemning Israel for its invasion of Gaza in search of Hamas operatives, for their intention of destroying the vast Hamas terrorist infrastructure that undermines Gaza, for bombing raids that inevitably, in any conflict, has fallout for the civilian population. These are people whose condemnation of Israel as an 'apartheid' state, as an 'occupying' state, harbouring the intention of 'genocide' against Palestinians, choose to believe the unmitigated lies and blood libels issuing from Palestinian terrorist groups, including the Palestinian Authority's President Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust-denier and antisemite himself.

For Jews worldwide, feeling beleaguered and oppressed yet again by a public that turns on Israel and Jews in general whenever an eruption of violence against Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah, PFLP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any other Palestinian terrorist group that crops up to menace they will succeed in destroying the Jewish State and with it, its Jewish population, a collective sigh of gratefulness emanates from the broader community where the fresh wind of empathy from other public figures resonates.

Non-Jewish personalities publicly casting support for Israel and Jewish people holds out hope that all is not lost. Shortly after October 7, that infamous day of relentless, sadistic savagery that saw Israeli girls and women raped, tortured and murdered, when entire families were burnt to death in their homes, when an influx of barbaric murderers crossed from Gaza into Israel to slaughter 1,200 civilians and kidnap 240 children, elderly and ill, women and men to Gaza, where Palestinian civilians abused, jeered and beat the captives, popular entertainer Justin Bieber posted "Praying for Israel" on Instagram.

Madonna shared a video with her 19.3 million followers, expressing sorrow for Israel, while Dwayne Johnson shared a reel with his 397 million followers in support of Israel, deploring the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former NBA all-star, shares pro-Israel Substack posts regularly with his 1.1 million Instagram followers. In the wake of the Al-Ahli hospital airstrike in Gaza when Hamas said Israel was responsible and it was later determined a misfired rocket was the cause, Abdul-Jabar posted: "Who was actually responsible for the deaths and destruction. No one does ... I certainly don't believe Hamas. They lost all credibility when they invaded Israel, took hostages, and set the mass violence in motion."

In contrast, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Melanie Joly, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs chose immediately to give credit to the Palestinian Health Ministry's account of the bombing and its casualties, direct from the unverifiable mouth of Hamas, rather than trust the denials emanating from the Israel Defense Forces that they had no hand in the catastrophe. It was a misfired rocket headed for Israel, set off by the Islamic Jihad group that was responsible.

 

In his turn, Dr. Phil spoke disparagingly of "a disturbing degree of ivy-covered intellectual rot" at universities, that he holds are failing at shaping and educating young minds under their tutelage. Among the first to publicly condemn university leadership for "not only indulging, but actually endorsing sanctioned student organizations holding celebrations for murders", his was a voice of reason in the condemnatory wilderness. 

Dr. Phil Primetime airing on his network, Merit Street Media, featured Mosab Hassan Yousef, disowned son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef who defected to Israel in 1997, working undercover for Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service before relocating in 2007 to the U.S. Mosab exposed the indoctrination of Palestinian children against Israel at Gaza schools, and countered University of Michigan anti-Israel activists who refused condemnation of the murder of innocents, claiming the events to be complex, requiring historical context.

"When I ask you if what happened on October 7 is something you condemn, and you say, 'Well, you have to look at that by looking at hundreds of years of conflict, no, you don't. No, you don't."

"That's either right or wrong. It was wrong. And I don't need 100 years of conflict to know it was wrong."

"When somebody comes over a fence and goes into someone's house and burns their infant in its crib, I don't give a damn why they did it. It's wrong."

Dr.Phil

Debra Messing spoke at the March for Israel in Washington, D.C. on November 14th, 2023. FOX5 YouTube

"Have you ever thought, gee, if I were a German during World War Two, I hope I would be that person who would stand up for my Jewish neighbours?"

"Well, guess what -- we have that opportunity today. Right now the Jewish people are being slaughtered by terrorists as we speak."

"Reach out to your Jewish friends. Tell them you support them. If you don't know any Jewish friends, call your local synagogue, ask if there's anything you can do to support them."

"And if you're active on social media, please stand up for Israel."

Patricia Heaton, Star of Everybody Loves Raymond, The Middle, Carol's Second Act

"The Aggression on Gaza"

"Despite the United States' position, the Hamas movement is watching the growing cause by several Western governments to end the aggression on Gaza."

"In addition to the other calls worldwide demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip -- the last of which was a statement by Canada, Australia and New Zealand backing sustainable ceasefire in Gaza -- we welcome these developments and consider them in the right direction toward isolating the fascist Israeli government globally and ending the longest ever occupation in our modern time."

"Israel is a country that has no place on our land."

"We must remove that country, because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation and must be finished."

"[Hamas] must teach Israel a lesson; [everyday Palestinians are willing to] pay the price."

Dr. Ghazi Hamad, senior leader, Hamas 

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. International aid agencies say Gaza is suffering from shortages of food, medicine and other basic supplies as a result of the two and a half month war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Palestinian civilians are indeed 'paying the price'. But, as Hamad, the gentle soul advocating for the annihilation of Israel and all Jews sheltering within their ancestral homeland, the leaders of his terrorist group, while happy to allow the population whose best interests they claim to represent to become martyrs for their cause of obliterating Jews in another genocidal effort they promise will be more effective than the last, will themselves evade the consequences of drawing Israel into the bombardment of Gaza.

 

A bombardment made rather complex by the sinister work of Hamas diverting international funding for Palestinians to their cause of establishing underground battlements, weapons storage units, safe places for terrorists, in a vast network of tunnels some sophisticated enough for vehicles to drive through, outfitted with electricity, water, heating and air conditioning. There, command centres are built under hospitals and ammunition depots under mosques. Shafts to the tunnels can be accessed from beneath apartment complexes, day care centres and private homes.

And since the tunnels, the rocket launch sites, command posts have been established within densely-inhabited areas of a crowded strip of land, incoming responses to outgoing rockets are meant to devastate civilians living within those areas. The more civilians that are wounded or killed by answering strikes from Israel to rockets coming over the border from Gaza, the more ammunition Hamas has for its public relations, crying out their victimhood from merciless Israeli military forces.

Now, after committing a monumental barbarism against Israeli civilians, young and old in southern Israel, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad feel entitled to control and direct the reaction of the West to the spectacle of Gaza being bombed by the Israel Defense Forces tasked to destroy the Hamas control centres, the tunnels, the weapons depots, the rocket launchers and Hamas leadership, along with their terrorist corps of psychopaths. 

 

Israeli troops take positions in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian terrorists across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

The carnage they wrought in Israel with mass rapes, mutilation of children and women, and a bloodbath of mass murder that elicited outrage in the West and celebration among Palestinians and their supporters worldwide, has been set aside. Now the instant communication of the present era linked to the infiltration of the West by Muslim immigrants, refugees and migrants who view events through the narrow lens of Islam's jihadist entitlements hold the world hostage to savagery in the name of 'freedom'.

And a once-proud nation like Canada sees its current government, heavy with an elected and elevated caucus of Muslims influencing the federal vote and a prime minister all too aware of his tenuous position as a leader who has outlived even his widely acknowledged incapability of leading a nation. From a tradition of standing beside and supporting a fellow democracy located in a sea of autocrats, dictators, theocracies and monarchies, Canada has chosen to give its oblique support to terrorism.

When the time has arrived that a high-level spokesman for the most notable terrorist group whose function clearly is to destroy Israel and the Jews within, records a video to express appreciation for the support of the governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand in their call for a ceasefire, translated in this politically charged climate as Israel standing back from its stated goal of destroying Hamas, those three countries, along with all others at the United Nations General Assembly who vote for an unconditional ceasefire, ignoring Hamas's atrocities and its goals, have made their deal with the devil.

United Nations Security Council passes a compromise resolution to try to deliver more aid and to create ‘conditions’ for peace. Most security council members wanted the resolution to demand an immediate ceasefire.  Still from video