There's The Will and There's A Way
People will piously, religiously, belligerently and trustingly believe what they are convinced is true. And so, dupes like Lyn Adamson, a Canadian Quaker and co-chair of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Toronto, iterates her belief that Gaza represents "an open-air prison of 1.5 million people. Gazans are systemically deprived of nutritious food and the means to grow it, clean water, safe housing and the opportunity to rebuild it."
Which justifies her determination to "be a delegate on the Canadian Boat to Gaza, the Tahrir, part of Freedom Flotilla". She beams her humanitarian light on the reality as she sees it, of the ghastly imprisonment of Palestinian Gazans. And in her determination to do the right thing, to be a self-consciously righteous defender of the human rights of a people who have been subjugated by an Islamist terror group.
The Gazans, whom she and others of her ilk who have petitioned their consciences to courageously sacrifice themselves on behalf of a people who have chosen to remain the world's longest-existing refugee bloc, and who have chosen victimhood over honour and independence, hateful belligerence over co-operation and a resignation to reality, are not as they love portraying themselves, defenceless and living in abject poverty. Although they see nothing amiss in living off foreign endowments.
The 'refugee camps' in which Palestinians have for so long lived thrive as towns and cities invested with a level of wealth that allows a proportion of Gazans to live sumptuously comfortable lives, while the balance, as a reflection of any society, live a more abstemious existence. But nowhere is there the kind of endemic poverty that is claimed by the outraged defenders of Palestinian rights.
Who fail to understand - or perhaps deliberately overlook that reality - that Palestinian rights cannot be achieved at the cost of Israel's existence and the defence of its people. That incessant strikes against a lawful and recognized state will not and cannot result in an equally lawful and recognized state for Palestinians. Only a civilized peace accord between two peoples will achieve that.
In loftily declaring support for the human rights of Palestinians, and offering themselves as candidates for their defence, Palestinian supporters like Ms. Adamson remain unconcerned that Palestinian children living in Gaza are being abused by Hamas which fosters future recruits by launching summer camps training children in jihadist ideology. Last summer Hamas operated such camps for an estimated 100,000 boys and girls; Islamic Jihad ran 51 camps with ten thousand boys and girls.
In these camps the children are invested with a knowledge of 'genuine Islamic values', and how they may best express them in their daily lives and into the future. Part of this indoctrination includes paramilitary training. Banners replete with slogans celebrating jihad and 'death for the sake of Allah', comprise an important part of the regimen and purpose of the camps dedicated to "Children working for the interests of their homeland and to educate them to the culture of the Islamic faith..."
Additionally - and this will no doubt please Canadian delegates intending to travel on the Canadian Boat to Gaza - the children are taught to identify with the Mavi Marmara flotilla and to proudly carry posters with the photographs of the blockade-busting martyrs. And to become fully conversant with chants expressing hatred for Israel and of course, for Jews.
It seems to matter not one whit that the Canadians investing their outrage against Israel and their supportive good wishes toward Gaza are actively condoning the work of Hamas. That Hamas is designated a terrorist organization in most Western countries seems irrelevant to these humanitarian activists who pride themselves on their selectivity in selecting deserving causes to champion.
There have been no protests launched against the Libyan and the Syrian regimes for the crimes they are committing against their own people. But then their commonality with the Canadian activists is also evident; they all detest Israel and condemn it for its actions purportedly designed to harm Palestinians. These are the Palestinians in Gaza who have taken possession of armaments that have been smuggled out of Libya via Egypt through tunnels into Gaza.
Some of the weapons are held to be Grad missiles capable of reaching Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, from Gaza. Along with rockets, guns and ammunition, and surplus Russian anti-tank missiles ransacked from Libyan weapons stores which Egyptian military officials state they are aware of, and attempting to deal with the situation, but somehow the convoys are managing to get through into the smuggling tunnels.
Those are the same tunnels, by the bye, that are used to smuggle large electrical appliances, vehicles, and any other domestic or business supplies of which there may be a shortage in Gaza through conventional means of transit. The refrigerators, stoves, television sets, computers and high-end cars sold at the new shopping centres recently constructed in the Gaza Strip.
Which justifies her determination to "be a delegate on the Canadian Boat to Gaza, the Tahrir, part of Freedom Flotilla". She beams her humanitarian light on the reality as she sees it, of the ghastly imprisonment of Palestinian Gazans. And in her determination to do the right thing, to be a self-consciously righteous defender of the human rights of a people who have been subjugated by an Islamist terror group.
The Gazans, whom she and others of her ilk who have petitioned their consciences to courageously sacrifice themselves on behalf of a people who have chosen to remain the world's longest-existing refugee bloc, and who have chosen victimhood over honour and independence, hateful belligerence over co-operation and a resignation to reality, are not as they love portraying themselves, defenceless and living in abject poverty. Although they see nothing amiss in living off foreign endowments.
The 'refugee camps' in which Palestinians have for so long lived thrive as towns and cities invested with a level of wealth that allows a proportion of Gazans to live sumptuously comfortable lives, while the balance, as a reflection of any society, live a more abstemious existence. But nowhere is there the kind of endemic poverty that is claimed by the outraged defenders of Palestinian rights.
Who fail to understand - or perhaps deliberately overlook that reality - that Palestinian rights cannot be achieved at the cost of Israel's existence and the defence of its people. That incessant strikes against a lawful and recognized state will not and cannot result in an equally lawful and recognized state for Palestinians. Only a civilized peace accord between two peoples will achieve that.
In loftily declaring support for the human rights of Palestinians, and offering themselves as candidates for their defence, Palestinian supporters like Ms. Adamson remain unconcerned that Palestinian children living in Gaza are being abused by Hamas which fosters future recruits by launching summer camps training children in jihadist ideology. Last summer Hamas operated such camps for an estimated 100,000 boys and girls; Islamic Jihad ran 51 camps with ten thousand boys and girls.
In these camps the children are invested with a knowledge of 'genuine Islamic values', and how they may best express them in their daily lives and into the future. Part of this indoctrination includes paramilitary training. Banners replete with slogans celebrating jihad and 'death for the sake of Allah', comprise an important part of the regimen and purpose of the camps dedicated to "Children working for the interests of their homeland and to educate them to the culture of the Islamic faith..."
Additionally - and this will no doubt please Canadian delegates intending to travel on the Canadian Boat to Gaza - the children are taught to identify with the Mavi Marmara flotilla and to proudly carry posters with the photographs of the blockade-busting martyrs. And to become fully conversant with chants expressing hatred for Israel and of course, for Jews.
It seems to matter not one whit that the Canadians investing their outrage against Israel and their supportive good wishes toward Gaza are actively condoning the work of Hamas. That Hamas is designated a terrorist organization in most Western countries seems irrelevant to these humanitarian activists who pride themselves on their selectivity in selecting deserving causes to champion.
There have been no protests launched against the Libyan and the Syrian regimes for the crimes they are committing against their own people. But then their commonality with the Canadian activists is also evident; they all detest Israel and condemn it for its actions purportedly designed to harm Palestinians. These are the Palestinians in Gaza who have taken possession of armaments that have been smuggled out of Libya via Egypt through tunnels into Gaza.
Some of the weapons are held to be Grad missiles capable of reaching Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, from Gaza. Along with rockets, guns and ammunition, and surplus Russian anti-tank missiles ransacked from Libyan weapons stores which Egyptian military officials state they are aware of, and attempting to deal with the situation, but somehow the convoys are managing to get through into the smuggling tunnels.
Those are the same tunnels, by the bye, that are used to smuggle large electrical appliances, vehicles, and any other domestic or business supplies of which there may be a shortage in Gaza through conventional means of transit. The refrigerators, stoves, television sets, computers and high-end cars sold at the new shopping centres recently constructed in the Gaza Strip.
Labels: Canada, Israel, Middle East, Politics of Convenience
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