Another prejudice this government finds wholly acceptable.
Israel has not other choice than to destroy Hamas, the atrocities of which are as well-known as they are sickening.
Any stalling effort, any apathy towards victims, proves to Israel that Canada, once a friend to it, is no longer to be trusted:
Cabinet yesterday rejected a petition signed by almost a tenth of MPs demanding a ceasefire in Israel. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested a brief “humanitarian pause” instead. The 33 petitioners included nine Liberal committee chairs and parliamentary secretaries: “Every country has the right to defend itself.”
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At that point, Vital started making plans to return to her family in Israel. Still, she heard little from the Canadian government. Not until Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. did Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly find a few minutes to call the bereaved mother.
Vital says that Minister Joly informed her that an airplane would be leaving Ottawa for Athens at a time and date that had not yet been determined and that she was welcome to join the flight. But she would have to arrange travel from Greece to Israel on her own. And pay for it. Vital advised the minister she had already arranged a flight and was leaving for the airport within the hour, so she declined the offer.
In the early days after the attack, after the extent of Hamas’s savagery became clearer, Vital was being urged by people in Israel to make herself available to the media, in order to get her story out. Curiously, the advice she received in Canada was very different.
Vital says the RCMP advised her to stay quiet regarding Adi’s Canadian nationality, over concerns that once the information became public, the Canadian government might be pressured to pay a ransom to secure her release.
Vital initially followed that advice. But does so no longer. Her daughter was murdered.
The absence of the Canadian government during this conflict is being noted throughout the West. The Trudeau government has issued the barest condemnation of the Hamas attacks. Instead, Canada is straining to treat this, as it tends to do with all matters involving Israel, as an “on the one hand, on the other hand” conundrum.
And it is noticed. In an interview with the Post on Tuesday, Brig.-Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser — who, among other senior positions in the past, was the director of research and analysis in the Israel Defence Force’s Military Intelligence division — noted that most western leaders had visited Israel since Oct. 7, yet prime ministers Trudeau and Anthony Albanese of Australia were conspicuously absent. That is not an oversight.
“That these two very important members of the western world do not show up — being members of the Five Eyes — and considering the trust we have in them, well, it really raises an eyebrow when something like that happens. We need to solidify the camp of the western world because this is not a war that we fight only for ourselves and for our security,” he said.
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Well, it IS Canada:
If you can call for churches to be burned and celebrate terrorism, who are these laws even for? pic.twitter.com/j4bW4jWeVw
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) October 23, 2023
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This article from 2013 was very telling of Trudeau.
— Stuart Woodman (@Jed6767) October 23, 2023
This is an except from the article. Trudeau questions if the Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist act. Despicable.
In the interview, Mansbridge asked Trudeau what he would do if he were prime minister on the day the…
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Rachael Thomas made those comments in a parliamentary committee meeting Thursday, in another attempt to summon top CBC executives to admonish them for the broadcaster’s decisions in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
“For the CBC to make this decision is absolutely irresponsible, and it is to peddle disinformation. And it is to be on the side of Hamas, which is to be on the side of terrorists, which is to be against the Jewish population, which is wrong,” said Thomas.
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It’s been a little over a year since the Department of Canadian Heritage cancelled an “anti-racism” grant that had funded the work of Laith Marouf, a pro-Palestinian activist known for his intense antisemitism. The money — around $123,000 — has not yet been paid back, despite the government demanding its return and sending it to collections.So when members of the Liberal government give assurances that the $60 million they’re sending to Israel and Gaza will stay out of Hamas’s hands, it doesn’t exactly inspire a sense of security. If the government can’t retrieve public funds that accidentally went to a bad cause at home, it probably can’t do so in a war zone half way around the world.Marouf was a consultant for a non-profit organization called the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), which had been given a grant of nearly $134,000 (of which all but $10,000 was doled out) by Canadian Heritage to design an anti-racist media strategy for the country. He held a couple of consultations as part of this work before the racket was ultimately shut down, due to his antisemitic and hate-filled posts.
An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people to Egypt's Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo. ...
Egypt would not necessarily be the Palestinian refugees' last stop. The document speaks about Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates supporting the plan either financially, or by taking in uprooted residents of Gaza as refugees and in the long term as citizens. Canada's "lenient" immigration practices also make it a potential resettlement target, the document adds.
Among the sites targeted were underground anti-tank missile and rocket launching positions and military compounds, according to the IDF.
Nasim Abu Ajina, commander of the Beit Lahia Battalion of Hamas’s Northern Brigade, was killed in an Israeli air strike on Monday. According to the IDF, Abu Ajina directed the Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians in Kibbutz Erez and Netiv Ha’asara. He previously commanded the Hamas Aerial Array and participated in the development of the terrorist organization’s drones and paragliders.
“His elimination significantly harms the efforts of the Hamas terrorist organization to disrupt the IDF’s ground activities,” according to the Israeli military.
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China has removed Israel from leading online digital maps following the outbreak of the war against Hamas.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Internet users in China are expressing bewilderment that Israel’s name no longer appears on major online digital maps from Baidu and Alibaba.
Baidu’s Chinese-language online maps demarcate the internationally recognized borders of Israel, as well as the Palestinian territories, plus key cities, but don’t clearly identify the country by name.
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Japan decided Tuesday to freeze the assets of nine individuals, including members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, and a related company, imposing sanctions on the organization amid its war with Israel.
The punitive measures are the first imposed by Japan since Hamas launched an attack on Israel on Oct. 7, triggering a large-scale conflict between the Jewish state and the Islamist group.
Japan accuses those subjected to the asset freezes of being involved in fundraising for Hamas, according to a Foreign Ministry official.
The measures, implemented with immediate effect, follow similar sanctions by the United States in mid-October on the individuals and the firm.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a news conference that Japan will continue to consider imposing additional sanctions "from the viewpoint of dealing with fundraising for terrorism."
The nationalities of the nine men are Palestinian, Sudanese, Egyptian and Jordanian, with one of them being a dual national of Turkey and Jordan, the ministry said.
They are key Hamas members, operatives and financial facilitators, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Hamas had its @$$ kicked by a bunch of girls:
Lt.-Col. Or Ben-Yehuda, the commander of this unit, now recounts her experiences in the southern Gaza Strip, where her battalion eliminated approximately 100 terrorists. She also has a clear message for those who question the capabilities of female fighters in the Caracal (Desert Lynx) and Tank Battalion.
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