Historical Wrecking Balls

"We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make."

"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

U.S. President George W. Bush, post 9/11

 

"Canada condemns Israel's strikes in Qatar -- an intolerable expansion of violence and an affront to Qatar's sovereignty."

"Regardless of their objectives, such attacks pose a grave risk of escalating conflict throughout the region, and directly imperil efforts to advance peace and security, secure the release of all hostages, and achieve a lasting ceasefire -- efforts in which Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani plays a highly constructive role."

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

AFPTV footage shows smoke billowing after Tuesday's explosions in Qatar's capital Doha  Getty Images

 

In 2001, Canada, all the Western world, NATO and the United Nations were 'with' the United States. The international community, those most tied to the United States as democratic allies sent their military forces, their diplomats and NGOs arrived to provide humanitarian services in 2001 when Afghanistan was invaded after its Taliban leaders refused to surrender al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, responsible for the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, the Pentagon and the overpowered terrorists that led to another plane crash in Pennsylvania. 

 

Britain, Spain and France all experienced their own Islamist terror attacks, when the world became familiar with the rise of  'political', 'radicalized' Islam. But no country has ever experienced the level and number of attacks that Israel  has been exposed to -- by its neighbour-states and by terrorist groups fostered, armed, trained and funded by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Shia theocracy has its laser focus on Israel's destruction, and has never been modest in airing that ambition even in the hallowed chambers of the United Nations whose function is to promote peace among nations.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, is accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, center, at a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House  Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

 

Iran is supported in its aspiration of genocidal obliteration of Jews by Qatar, which acts as a covert bland buffer between the Republic and its Sunni majority neighbours, while presenting itself as a trusted intermediary to the West. Qatar's vast oil-resourced treasury serves as a silver salver to entree in the United States, funding universities and supporting the infiltration of a fellow Islamist generator of antisemitic assaults among the large and growing Muslim diaspora settling in the West, the Muslim Brotherhood. 

 

Qatar has dedicated itself to the stealth promotion of terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, in tandem with the Islamic Republic of Iran. More latterly, Turkey, a risible member of NATO, has joined them in their nefarious schemes against Israel. Both Turkey and Qatar have shielded Islamist terrorism, given them haven, described them as loyal servants of Islam, upholding its most sacred precepts. The Palestinian Authority has done likewise, but it is in sharp competition with Hamas for leadership of the Palestinians.

 

This handout picture released by Qatar’s Amiri Diwan shows Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (right), meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Doha, on September 10, 2025. (Qatar Amiri Diwan / AFP)

 

Israel, on the other hand, has since its re-emergence as a Jewish state on the geographic terrain of its ancestral heritage, has been forced repeatedly to emphasize its right of existence by defending itself militarily and in the process defeating its regional enemies. The attacks, once conducted by states now reconciled to Israel's indomitable presence, have been dominated by death-cult groups whose focus is trained solely on Israel's dismemberment while the Muslim Brotherhood and indeed Iran/Qatar have longer-range missions; world domination in the name of Islam, the 'religion of peace'. 

 

And it is the Islamist powers that Canada, France, Spain, Ireland, Britain, Norway, Australia and others cater to. Not only because they fail to look behind and beyond the facade spoonfed them by skilled propagandists, but as a result of having been flooded by emigrants, migrants and refugees from the Islamic world who now constitute in numbers a powerful incentive to cater to them as a voting bloc. They take seriously Qatar's presentation as a skilled mediator in talks between embattled Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas whose leaders reside in palatial comfort far from the fray while dictating to the Palestinian population to remain defiant (as does certainly the Palestinian Authority/Fatah/Mahmoud Abbas) and accept their sublime fate as martyrs for Islam.

 

This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) received by Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani upon arrival in Doha on September 14, 2025, ahead of an Arab-Islamic emergency summit. (Thaer GHANAIM / PPO / AFP)

 

It is these sanctimonious actors presenting themselves as innocent of any sinister, underhanded plans to disrupt the West, to replace democracy and rule of law with Islamist Sharia law, while in practise inciting hate and suspicion and infecting a wide segment of the West with the viral affliction of violent antisemitism that have gained the support of those who -- as defenders of Judeo-Christian values should be alert to the danger posed -- cite Israel and its presence in the Middle East as the problem, and have abandoned Israel and their own national Jewish populations to a fate they cannot contemplate, soon to arrive on their own shores.

 

Qatar's Emir is furious that Israel attacked Doha for the purpose of using stealth bombers to pinpoint the presence of elite leaders of Hamas and eliminate them. Invoking the sanctity of the state against attacks on its sovereignty, he is adamant that the international community must sanction and punish Israel for this violation of international law. In fact, international law fully supports such an attack on any country that harbors and shields terrorists threatening another nation. Even so, Qatar's Emir has the ear of those like Canada's Prime Minister Carney, eager to support Qatar and condemn Israel.

 

Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thanii chairs a preparatory meeting in Doha on September 14, 2025 [Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AFP]

Israel Alone

"[Some of Israel's closest allies want Israel to] stand down and accept that Hamas's army of mass murderers will survive."

"I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer, when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you're on the wrong side of justice."

"You're on the wrong side of humanity, and you're on the wrong side of history."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel's PM has accused the leaders of the UK, France and Canada of being on "the wrong side of history"  Reuters

No other nation on Earth, constantly threatened, attacked and forced to defend itself on an ongoing basis from forces intent on destroying it, faces the unrelenting 'advice' by other nations considered allies, on how it should comport itself as does Israel. In a region of the world where might is right, and inflamed tensions build inexorably to violence and where well funded, trained and armed militias that most countries designate as terrorist entities, attack, the only response that works when attacks take place is to respond in kind.

 

Israel, in responding to a mass barbaric attack led by Hamas and joined by other Palestinian terrorist groups like Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah, as well as Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis, knows that it has an obligation to itself and its people, long targeted by death squads of the death-cult movement of Palestinian terrorism to finally vanquish and destroy the ability of these death-dealing groups to continue threatening and attacking the Jewish state. 

 

There is no country on the face of this Earth that would hesitate to counter-attack when thousands of terrorist operatives trained in terrorism tactics bring sadistic savagery to play in hunting down women for mass rape and mutilation, fire automatic weapons to kill any civilian child, woman or man, elderly or in uniform identified as an Israeli target, that would not invade the territory that had desecrated its state of security by mass bloodletting. 

 

Israeli soldier patrols near the Supernova music festival attack in Be'eri, Israel, on Oct. 12.   Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty Images

This is a conflict that terrorism initiated with a stated goal -- to annihilate Jewish lives and in the process destroy the state that protects and secures those lives. Israel's military responded in kind, but a measured kind as a civilized nation, seeking to avoid causing as many casualties among the civilian population ruled by the terrorists as can be possible when Hamas and its sister groups deploy a strategy of shielding themselves among the civilian population, within hospitals, schools and mosques for maximum shelter from the consequences of their actions.

 

During war, civilian populations inevitably suffer. They disproportionately pay the  cost of their governing representatives' decision to wage war on others. In the case of Palestinian terrorist groups there is another role within the conflict scenario; to encourage the civilian population to willingly become decoys, to offer their lives in protection of the lives of those who brought war to them. Collateral damage can be kept to a minimum relatively speaking, when a humane military warns civilians beforehand.

 

There is, however, no way during an active war situation, that civilian lives can be spared during the drive to destroy and eliminate the warring element of the population. Even so, Israel's Defense Forces have been the cause of fewer civilian deaths than in any other active war situation. And the situation is that Hamas holds Israeli  citizens as hostages when to return them could bring an end to the conflict. Even while the IDF in fighting mode seeks out Hamas leaders and their operatives, and Israel's 'allies' urge a ceasefire, Hamas and its terrorist colleagues continue to send rockets into Israel.

 

 

 

What country would unilaterally lay down its arms and allow terrorists to continue their agenda of destruction and death unimpeded because its critics are allied in offering advice that they themselves in similar conditions would never consider as a reaction to a war imposed upon them? Yet the allies do not desist, and Western legacy media, infused with a sense of national moral righteousness from afar, portray Israel as a human rights-abusing nation, never hesitating to use the public relations agenda of Hamas to portray Israel as actively pursuing a 'genocidal' course in its response to an actual genocidal intent.

 

The world has accustomed itself to denying Jews the right to self-defense because they prefer Jews as victims. As victims during the Holocaust when Nazi Germany with the aid and assistance of occupied Europe, just as content to be rid of their Jews as was Germany, and lending themselves to the enterprise with gusto, it was seen as revelatory and shocking when the death toll was counted and those still alive presented in their pathetic state of survival. Empathy to their plight was a natural human reaction.

 

Now it appears that another natural human reaction is taking place, when Jews  refuse to be perpetual victims, and inconveniently have a military and a nation whose purpose of existence is to ensure that Jews themselves endure and exist despite the best laid plans of Jew-haters intent on destroying their lives. The very idea of a competent and still humanitarian military with the capacity to lay low belligerents whose thirst for Jewish blood is unappeasable, fails to sit well with critics whose Jew-hate creeps through their civilizational facade. 

 

People in Tel Aviv light candles on Oct. 12 for those who were taken hostage and in memory of people killed.  Amir Levy / Getty Images file