Blatant Sanctimony
Imagine, Canada distinguishing itself by having its name emblazoned on a new venture, a humanitarian enterprise labelled The Canadian Boat to Gaza. Its passionate proponents are prepared to blacken Israel's right eye, having tarnished its left eye, joining the ranks of those countries like Ireland and Turkey committed to demonstrating their contempt for a country forced to defend itself against war-designing neighbours.
Fund-raising activities are in full swing within Canada, to raise the hundreds of thousands required to outright purchase some rusting old tub with enough float-worthiness left in her to give sea passage to stalwart anti-Zionists and Jew-baiters. There are more than enough proud kaffiyeh-wearing hyphenated Canadians and self-hating Jews to man the ramparts - or is it the halyards? - of the ship when it embarks on its voyage of rescue.
Of course organizers claim that they find no common cause with Hamas, since it is clearly identified under Canadian law, as it is elsewhere in the civilized world, as a terrorist group. Hamas just happens to be the government in Gaza, but it is ordinary Gazans, civilians, for whom this solidarity ship is meant to give hope. No, Hamas is orchestrating nothing, its public relations and propaganda arms have nothing to do with these arrangements.
Although those who support the Canadian Boat to Gaza group and its plans see nothing amiss in what Hamas is dedicated to, come to think of it. It is a legitimate governing entity, they gleefully point out, having been democratically elected by a majority of Palestinians who considered it an antidote to the 'moderate', immoderately-corrupt Fatah with whom it shared the executive of the Palestinian Authority for a few years.
Palestinian Gazans are indebted to Hamas for freeing it from the accursed occupation of the Zionists. That Israel unilaterally left Gaza to the Gazans has no fidelity to truth, it is an Israeli fiction. As is the recent news out of Gaza that over a dozen Gazans have been injured in a "work accident" at one of Hamas's military bases. What are children doing located at a military base? Why, the base is located directly within a crowded civilian neighbourhood in Rafiah.
Validating the inconvenient truth that Hamas deliberately chooses to install itself, its munitions and infrastructure in the crowded confines of civilian enclaves. Taking their cue from Hezbollah which has done just that. The better to complain to the international community of Israeli violence against the common folk when the IDF responds to assaults by targeting the base where the rockets emanated from.
In the latest blast, three women, five children and five others were injured in the blast. Hamas is mum on the possible cause of the unfortunate explosion, but these occur when roadside bombs, suicide bomber belts and other weapons detonate prematurely or accidentally during set-up. An unfortunate by-product of 'resistance' preparations.
The Associated Press reports that the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights claimed 58 people were wounded in a like incident that destroyed seven houses two months earlier. The human rights group has called upon Hamas through irritatingly annoying public statements, to store its explosives outside of crowded civilian centres, but its calls remain un-noticed.
Perhaps, when the Canadian blockade-busting aid boat reaches its destination its leaders could lead a confab with Hamas leaders to explain that legitimate and enlightened legislators generally make an effort to care for the people whom they represent, not use them as cannon fodder in the pursuit of their end purpose: to destroy a neighbouring state.
Heh, heh, not likely.
Because, as Ehab Lotayef, spokesman for the Canadian Boat to Gaza group earnestly explains,
Fund-raising activities are in full swing within Canada, to raise the hundreds of thousands required to outright purchase some rusting old tub with enough float-worthiness left in her to give sea passage to stalwart anti-Zionists and Jew-baiters. There are more than enough proud kaffiyeh-wearing hyphenated Canadians and self-hating Jews to man the ramparts - or is it the halyards? - of the ship when it embarks on its voyage of rescue.
Of course organizers claim that they find no common cause with Hamas, since it is clearly identified under Canadian law, as it is elsewhere in the civilized world, as a terrorist group. Hamas just happens to be the government in Gaza, but it is ordinary Gazans, civilians, for whom this solidarity ship is meant to give hope. No, Hamas is orchestrating nothing, its public relations and propaganda arms have nothing to do with these arrangements.
Although those who support the Canadian Boat to Gaza group and its plans see nothing amiss in what Hamas is dedicated to, come to think of it. It is a legitimate governing entity, they gleefully point out, having been democratically elected by a majority of Palestinians who considered it an antidote to the 'moderate', immoderately-corrupt Fatah with whom it shared the executive of the Palestinian Authority for a few years.
Palestinian Gazans are indebted to Hamas for freeing it from the accursed occupation of the Zionists. That Israel unilaterally left Gaza to the Gazans has no fidelity to truth, it is an Israeli fiction. As is the recent news out of Gaza that over a dozen Gazans have been injured in a "work accident" at one of Hamas's military bases. What are children doing located at a military base? Why, the base is located directly within a crowded civilian neighbourhood in Rafiah.
Validating the inconvenient truth that Hamas deliberately chooses to install itself, its munitions and infrastructure in the crowded confines of civilian enclaves. Taking their cue from Hezbollah which has done just that. The better to complain to the international community of Israeli violence against the common folk when the IDF responds to assaults by targeting the base where the rockets emanated from.
In the latest blast, three women, five children and five others were injured in the blast. Hamas is mum on the possible cause of the unfortunate explosion, but these occur when roadside bombs, suicide bomber belts and other weapons detonate prematurely or accidentally during set-up. An unfortunate by-product of 'resistance' preparations.
The Associated Press reports that the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights claimed 58 people were wounded in a like incident that destroyed seven houses two months earlier. The human rights group has called upon Hamas through irritatingly annoying public statements, to store its explosives outside of crowded civilian centres, but its calls remain un-noticed.
Perhaps, when the Canadian blockade-busting aid boat reaches its destination its leaders could lead a confab with Hamas leaders to explain that legitimate and enlightened legislators generally make an effort to care for the people whom they represent, not use them as cannon fodder in the pursuit of their end purpose: to destroy a neighbouring state.
Heh, heh, not likely.
Because, as Ehab Lotayef, spokesman for the Canadian Boat to Gaza group earnestly explains,
"Our first goal is to reach the people of Gaza with much-needed supplies that they are short of, and also to show them the world is not forgetting about them. Our second important goal is to voice opposition to the position the Canadian government is taking regarding the siege of Gaza, and doing what the Canadian government always seems to do, which is to take the side of Israel."Oh dear, Israel and Canada, two disparate nations, but one-of-a-kind in degenerate wicked disregard for the right of the Palestinians to clobber the Jews whenever feasible, rather than sue for mutual agreement toward a peaceful resolution of a tedious and ongoing campaign on the part of the Arab world to dislodge a Jewish state from the sacred confines of Islam-consecrated desert.
Labels: Canada, Israel, Middle East, Politics of Convenience
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