One of the things the left is desperately downplaying as it demands that Israel allow Hamas and its supporters to go unpunished and, ideally, cede to the Arabs the entire land of Israel is the fact that the surrounding Arab nations are refusing to take Gazans in as refugees. The reason is that nobody wants these “Palestinian” Arabs who have proven to be as destructive to Arab nations as they are to Israel.
‘We are the victims… therefore nobody should blame us for the things we do’
“We are the victims… therefore nobody should blame us for the things we do.”
Who do you think said this? Some blue-haired campus activist who’s convinced they’re suffering from structural oppression? A trans campaigner, perhaps, who thinks being misgendered is an act of violence? Maybe some other social justice type who feels victimised by everything from statues of old colonialists to un-PC jokes?
There are many reasons for any sane person to regret the existence of Hamas, the savage Sunni Muslim militia that controls the Gaza Strip in Southern Israel. Founded in 1987, the group has specialized in terror attacks against Israelis while maintaining vigorous side-concessions fomenting anti-Western sentiment and keeping their own populace in a state of wretched poverty.
Such are the convoluted workings of providence, however, that the world may eventually find itself grimly grateful for what one percipient observer called “the Sabbath Massacres”: the barbaric slaughter perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which left some 1,400 dead, thousands wounded, and more than 200 kidnapped and held hostage in Gaza.
The Rafah crossing, along the border dividing the Gaza Strip from Egypt and the only land exit from the war-torn Palestinian territory that’s not controlled by Israel, remained closed Sunday, a day after evacuations were suspended.
That development has left hundreds of Canadians who want to leave Gaza in limbo. Global Affairs Canada (GAC) had previously told them they could be allowed into Egypt as early as Sunday, but the crossing has remained closed all weekend.
Samah Al-Sabbagh, speaking Sunday to CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live from London, Ont., said her 73-year-old father is on the Global Affairs list to leave Gaza, but he remains in Gaza and his health is deteriorating.
Ottawa police say they are investigating after someone snapped a picture of a sign comparing Israel to the Nazis at Saturday’s pro-Palestine rally.
The rally, which drew thousands of people, gathered on Parliament Hill Saturday afternoon before marching through downtown Ottawa. Many people waved Palestinian flags and had signs calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemning genocide.
Last week, Professor Amir Hetsroni posted an idea with which many readers agreed – he suggested settling the Palestinian Arabs, beginning with those from Gaza, on an island near the North Pole, where, he said, “they can continue their barbaric policies as they wish without harming anyone.”
Professor Hetsroni minced no words in describing the situation Israel faces since the horrifically murderous attack on its citizens on the morning of the Simchat Torah holiday. And it is quite clear that most Israelis are not interested in having neighbors – or citizens, for that matter – who believe in the extremist Islamist world view that wants to destroy the Jews.
The problem is that no one else wants them either.
One of the most shocking images in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 was the sight of Palestinians dancing in the street. Who would have known the murder of 3,000 Americans would elicit such delight?
A larger number of Palestinians were on the streets of the West Bank in January 2015 following the slaughter of the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Their angry placards and bellicose chants weren’t condemning the two Islamist gunmen who had committed the crime but the fact that the same magazine had, in defiance of the terrible attack, published a caricature of the Prophet in its next issue. “France is the mother of terrorism, America is the mother of terrorism,” the protesters chanted.
“We are not sub-humans. Let me repeat: We are not sub-humans,” said Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Authority’s representative to the United Nations, after the sub-human atrocities inflicted on innocent civilians in Israel by his fellow Palestinian Arabs. He felt the need to repeat the claim twice last month at an emergency session of the of the UN General Assembly, possibly to try to convince anyone he could. Hamas and Iran reportedly masterminded the murderous invasion. Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to hold at least 240 Israeli hostages in Gaza.
On a freezing day in Paris in 1895, a captain of the French army was led into the courtyard of the École Militaire. Convicted on trumped-up charges of passing military secrets to the Germans, he was to undergo a ceremony of ritual humiliation. An officer tore the badges and stripes from his uniform and broke his sword. The crowd roared: “Judas! Traitor!”
Alfred Dreyfus was a Jew. His ordeal at the military school was the beginning of a 12-year struggle that divided the country and unveiled the depths of French, and European, antisemitism: the Dreyfus affair.
Yhaacub Hans says he can’t work. He says he can’t sleep. His thoughts are focused on his family in Gaza and the civilians being killed around them every day.
His only reprieve from this looping mental anguish, he says, comes when he bands together with people who share his pain.
That’s why the Niagara mechanic donned his kaffiyeh and piled his wife, nephews, one-year-old daughter and 65-year-old aunt into his car and drove to what would become the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in Toronto since the Israel-Hamas war broke out Oct. 7.
25K? That’s a lot of Hamas supporters.
Toronto – November 3 – pro-Palestinian protestors swarm around an Aroma cafe and chant “boycott”. Social media campaigners have even called to boycott “What-a-Bagel” – a bagel chain founded by Canadian Jews in 1997. 1/2 #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/5b7NEn02Ef
— Documenting Antisemitism (@AntisemitismCA) November 4, 2023
In the UK …
Everyone repeat after me…
“DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!”
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) November 5, 2023
The conflict between Israel and Hamas is fast becoming a world war online.
Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States.
Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have also joined the fight online, along with extremist groups, like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, that were previously at odds with Hamas.
As the sun was setting over the Mediterranean last night, the mortar rounds fired from a concealed Hamas stronghold were getting closer.
When one struck about 200 yards from the command post of an Israeli brigade combat group in a northern neighbourhood of Gaza City, the soldiers took up defensive positions.
“Such an act of violence is unthinkable. I offer all my support to the victim and her relatives,” said Lyon Mayor Gregory Doucet on the social media platform X.
A spokesman for the national police gave no further details about the suspect, and said he could not confirm whether police were treating the attack as an anti-Semitic hate crime.
Hamas delayed the evacuation of wounded Palestinian civilians from Gaza by placing its own fighters on border departure lists.
A senior official in Joe Biden’s administration said Hamas had repeatedly provided Israel, the United States and Egypt with lists of Palestinians who were wounded and should be allowed to depart – only for it to later emerge during security checks that many of those included were Hamas fighters.
A rabbi on the French island of Corsica has reported that many Jews in France have contacted him about moving to the island as they fear for their personal safety on the French mainland as antisemitism continues to surge following the massacre of over a thousand Israeli civilians by Hamas last month.
Levi Pinson, rabbi of Corsica, told broadcaster Europe1 that he has received many requests from Jews elsewhere in France regarding the possibility of moving to the Mediterranean island, saying, “Many people contact us to find out about the living conditions here and to talk to us about a possible move.”
