The People Canada and the Bigots Support

One can go on with the atrocities committed by Hamas.

One can even go on and question why anyone would support such people.

A facile answer can be that a man is moved by hatred that he cannot see anything else.

We are witnessing that now:

Hamas fighters booby-trapped the body of a Canadian-Israeli mother after murdering her, layering her in bombs to kill anyone who came near her corpse, according to traumatized neighbors. 

Adi Vital-Kaploun was killed in front of her two young sons on October 7 when the militants stormed Kibbutz Holit. After shooting her dead, neighbors say the fighters covered her body in bombs beneath one of her son's beds. 

The two boys - Eshel, four months, and Negev, four - survived and escaped with a neighbor. 

'They put bombs all over her body and her dad was in the house. Thank God he didn’t open the door, ' Dina Zaslacski, a family friend, told Canada's Globe and Mail. 

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(WARNING: Graphic content)#Hamas murdered over 1,300 civilians and soldiers and kidnapped over 150 people during its attack on #Israel last week.

These are just some of the horrific scenes from the assault.

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🔴https://t.co/Ftg85pOFDL pic.twitter.com/fo6BoFGnB6

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) October 15, 2023

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Bodycam film of Hamas filth entering Kibbutz Kissufim.
Shoots the family dog dead before then torching the home.
Pure murderous and destructive evil.. pic.twitter.com/fgvh2mT988

— Versatile (@Versati51739827) October 9, 2023

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Avigayil listed the cruel treatment meted out. “We saw chopped-up bodies. Decapitated people, a decapitated child. Many shots to the head, as if one was not enough. A woman whose eyes were shot out.”

Her colleague and reservist Mayaan recalls: “We see them in stages of abuse that even if we knew them, we wouldn’t even recognize them.”

And they would see signs that are “purely torture,” she went on.

If bodies cannot be recognized by their face, DNA tests often offer the last resort.

Mayaan, who usually works as a dentist, said the forensic examination found several cases of rape.

One of the people she identified was one of her patients. His face was recognizable, but the body mutilated. “Whenever I saw him, I closed my eyes and imagined him in my dentist’s office,” the 35-year-old said, struggling to speak through her tears.

“What we saw, we will never stop seeing.”

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Israel has alleged that Hamas terrorists used first aid kits distributed by the United Nations during their murderous raid into the south of the country.

The Israel Defence Forces published images of blue aid kits emblazoned with the Unicef logo close to destroyed pick-up trucks used by the Islamist group in the massacre of more than 1,300 innocent Israelis, mostly civilians, on Oct 7.

“Humanitarian aid for the purpose of terrorism,” the IDF wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Unicef first aid kits were used by Hamas jihadists during their raid on Israeli towns… where over 1,300 Israelis were murdered, thousands more were wounded,” the social media post added.

The allegation was made amid a debate over the continuation of humanitarian aid shipments to the Gaza Strip and Palestinians.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it is “imperative” that Israel respect international law and allow humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip, where one million people have been displaced in the first week of the war with terrorist organization Hamas.

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Ottawa has announced additional humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel and subsequent retaliation, while addressing fears the aid could be diverted to fund terrorist activities.

Hamas has been de facto ruling the Gaza Strip since taking over in 2007.

Ottawa provides approximately $55 million annually to “help meet the development and humanitarian needs of vulnerable Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza,” says Global Affairs Canada (GAC). The funding is split between $20 million for development aid and $35 million for humanitarian assistance.

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In 2016, shouts of “shame” came from the Conservative benches as the newly elected Trudeau government reinstated funding to UNRWA, a UN agency oft cited as a back door for terrorism funding.

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“For years, UNRWA has been manipulated by Gaza’s corrupt Hamas government in flagrant contradiction of the UN stated policy of neutrality,” said former Conservative cabinet minister Peter Kent. He would also tell CBC News he was “horrified” at the decision.

Stephen Harper’s government cut off the UNRWA entirely in 2010, citing it as an unchecked avenue for terror indoctrination. The agency’s main focus is a network of 715 schools serving Palestinian refugees, and multiple reports both then and now have found curricula filled with materials referring to Israel as the “Zionist Occupation” and praising suicide bombers as “martyrs.”

But the Liberals reinstated the $25 million-a-year funding anyway, with then-minister of international development Marie-Claude Bibeau saying there were “robust control measures” to ensure the cash isn’t used for anything unseemly.

That funding would continue even after a leaked UN report in 2019 framed the organization as being racked by corruption and abuse. UNRWA head Pierre Krahenbuhl and a small coterie of senior management were accused of “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority, for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent, and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives,” according to the report, which was obtained by Agence France-Press.

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And it is set to continue still, even as many of Canada’s peer countries audited their Palestinian aid streams to identify any money that might be going to Hamas. On Oct. 9, the European Commission announced an “urgent review of the EU’s assistance for Palestine.”

But the Ministry of International Development told Postmedia this week that Canadian funding would continue moving into Gaza just the same – albeit while “ensuring that no money goes into the hands of Hamas,” said spokesman Alex Tétreault.

In fact, Gaza will be getting more money than usual. Just five months ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government had announced it was increasing its UNRWA payments, citing them as necessary to “peace and prosperity in the Middle East.” In addition to the $100 million Canada had pledged over four years, Ottawa tacked on another $3 million in “emergency aid,” some of which was earmarked for Gaza.

According to former Canadian ambassador to Israel Vivian Bercovici — a perennial critic of UNRWA — Tétreault is describing something that isn’t possible.

“This is an outright lie,” she wrote in a Tuesday social media post. “You give the money and there is no transparency or accountability. None.”

I hope that this scandal hangs about Canadians' necks as long as the Ukrainian Nazi scandal does.

I hope that the world sees what Canada has become: a country so morally and politically lazy that it would fund anti-semitism and violence and not give it a second thought.

I hope that Canada becomes a bigger pariah than what it currently is. 

Canadians do not deserve to coast on the laurels of the past. It does not deserve the reputation of a nation that pulls its weight or cares about others. Those things are simply not true anymore.