“Oct 7 2023”

The Biden administration’s approach to dealing with Iran has been marked by a series of delayed responses, ineffective actions, and cosmetic sanctions that have clearly failed to deter the Islamic Republic’s aggressive behavior. This passive stance not only bolsters the Iranian regime but also jeopardizes the safety and security of Americans and their allies. A thorough reassessment of strategy and a commitment to assertive diplomacy would seem necessary to say the least.

When the far-left protests outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices, the media and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) think that’s freedom of speech in action. The Washington Post published a puff piece on a woman disturbing the peace outside Brett Kavanaugh’s home: “We’re about to get doomsday, so I’m not going to be civil to that man at all.” The Trump era made disturbing conservative dinners at restaurants a tactic that’s “not going away.”

The people who targeted a Jewish hospital in Toronto this week with calls for the death of Jews seem awfully concerned about how people see them.

They have been pushing back against those denouncing them with key help from Justin Trudeau’s appointed representative on Islamophobia and a national media organization.

The readout of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meeting this week with Jordan’s King Abdullah II covered most of the bases you would expect to be covered in such a communiqué, all of it couched in earnest diplomatic language, with the obligatory nod to “the importance of renewing efforts toward a two-state solution to secure lasting peace” in the Middle East.

There was one glaring omission, however. The dispatch from the Prime Minister’s Office made no mention of UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Yet, it is highly unlikely that UNRWA did not come up in Wednesday’s tête-à-tête between the two leaders. Before arriving in Ottawa, the King had publicly appealed to the agency’s largest donors, including Canada, to restore funding they suspended last month on the heels of allegations that 12 UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

UNRWA should be defunded however that will have to wait for a new government as Junior lusts for Canada’s Hamas vote.

Those supporters of #MeToo said nothing.

In 2005, I published a book titled The Death of Feminism. At the time, I was focused on how Western feminists had become obsessed more with the alleged “occupation” of a country that has never existed — Palestine — than with the real occupation of women’s bodies in Gaza and on the West Bank, who were being forced into hijab, niqab, and child and arranged marriages, or who were being honor killed by their families for minor or imagined infractions. This form of femicide is primarily a Muslim-on-Muslim crime both in the West and in Muslim countries but, to a lesser extent, also takes place among Hindus in India, and, less frequently, among Sikhs. Honor killing is likely a tribal custom that religious leaders have failed to abolish, I wrote, one in which women also collaborate.

There’s no comfort knowing that Toronto is as infected by antisemitism as other world capitals.

Because hate hasn’t any boundaries or exclusion zones.

London has been in pro-Palestinian demonstration turbulence since the savage Hamas rampage into Israel on Oct. 7. I say pro-Palestinian but as has been increasingly exposed, many protesters focus instead on the vilifying of Israel, the most malign on the reviling of Jews.

(Part 4 of 4) How Does This End? Regionally and Globally.

There are always dire consequences when the two strands of the double helix of “history as facts” and “history as beliefs” are torn too far apart. Chaos ensues. Dark forces are liberated.

Just this has happened for Israel and its neighbourhood since Hamas perpetrated the pogrom of 7/10. In the hundred days until the world turned upside down with the South African led attempt to weaponise the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) to tar the victim of a transparently genocidal attack with charges of genocide — an attempt which failed, but only just — all routes out of the dark chaos have steadily narrowed. After the ICJ’s vexatious ruling which tried but was unable to declare Israel to have committed genocide, even moreso.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found himself, once again, at odds with Israel’s war effort, calling on Wednesday for the Israeli military to nix plans to mount an attack on Rafah. But while Trudeau may have, in his own mind, been taking a principled humanitarian stand, his words played right into the hands of Hamas, whose clear endgame has always been to pack as many Gazans as possible into the city for use as human shields.

NEWS – Egypt is building a wall and is levelling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show.

Egypt, which has not publicly acknowledged the construction, repeatedly has warned Israel not to forcibly expel the over one million Palestinians now displaced in Rafah across the border into its territory while it battles the militant group Hamas for a fifth month.

Has Justin mounted his Virtue Signaling Podium to denounce Egypt?

h/t Mauser

“From the river to the sea,” the familiar-hatted figure roars. “Palestine will be free,” his supporters chant in unison. George Galloway is conducting his followers like a religious cleric. “In our thousands, in our millions,” the high-priest cries. “We are all Palestinian,” they respond.

It is rare these days for a foreign issue to be so central to a British political campaign: two by-elections being fought this week — in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, and in Kingswood near Bristol — will be decided by the economy and other domestic concerns. The battle for Rochdale, which will be fought at the end of this month, is the exception.