The Unvarnished Unembellished Truth

"Gaza is giving children grenades ... and asking their citizens to be sheep to the slaughter."
"Gazan officials tell their people to be killed while they hide in bomb shelters. Cowards? No, this is worse than cowardice. It is vile and ugly and they should be put to shame. Instead, it is Israel who is put to shame."
"Throughout the world, injustices happen on a near-daily basis. But these same activists, when they hear the cry of the moment, if it is anti-Israel it is an easy bandwagon to get on, to get their anti-Israel warpaint on and join their friends between potlucks, veggie smoothies and coffee breaks."
"[Hamas, instead of caring about the welfare of Palestinians, is focused on] killing, of carrying the banner of martyrdom, and of watching its fellow people die."
"And yet, these are the same people who are embraced and loved by the international community, with marches on Parliament Hill in Canada's capital, and in cities throughout the world, holding banners and chanting about the destruction of the state of Israel and of death to the Jews."
"Unless we want to see another Mullah amongst us, where other religions aside from a certain variety of Islam are not allowed, where synagogues are used as latrines and garbage dumps and Christians are living in constant fear [people need to re-examine their priorities]."
Paul Estrin, Green Party of Canada president

No caps and gowns: These Gaza graduates sport fatigues, guns, and suicide vest  -- The Blaze

Oh dear, Mr. Estrin, what a hullabaloo of opprobrium and approbation you have raised in your political party, causing your leader, Elizabeth May, no end of consternation, having to deal with maintaining her party's stance firmly on the fence, in the middle, neutral, uninvolved, and untainted by favouritism, or as the left would have it, defence of the indefensible. Supporting Zionist Israel in its defensive war against the offensive Hamas? How could you!

But there it is, passion and frustration got the better of your political instincts. Mr. Estrin wrote an essay, "Why Gaza makes me sad", and had the effrontery to publish it online on the Green Party's website. It is not, some angered party members rage, a reflection of their party's policy. That it is not, should be a matter of shame, but that's another story altogether. "I didn't know he felt this way about Gaza", said an embattled party leader Elizabeth May. "He had not raised this before."

Well, if the New Democratic Party was able to smother their irrepressibly Israel-bashing Libby Davis whose out-of-this-world statement that Israel has been occupying Palestinian land "since 1948", since ridding itself of the equally obnoxious and flamboyantly sanctimonious Svend Robinson who loved no entity more than he did Hamas and detested no state more than he did Israel, surely the Greens can manage to balance their own party's moral compass to a finer balance?

While she and the Greens also condemn Hamas for firing rockets into Israel, they don't have an unquestioning attitude toward Israel, Ms. May iterated. At a convention that took place earlier in the month the party formally called for an immediate cessation of "hostilities" between Israel and Palestine (Palestine?), reaching the conclusion it would adopt a "posture of engaged neutrality", favouring a diplomatic end to the conflict. Their concern must have slipped Hamas's and Israel's notice.

Future Jihadis "defend" Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque - The Blaze

How does one diplomatically engage with one hell of a deadly-dedicated belligerent force acknowledged in international circles as terrorists, whose founding covenant focuses specifically on its raison d'etre; the destruction of a Jewish state whose presence enrages Hamas's Islamist credentials that an upstart Zionist entity would take it upon itself to profane land sacred to Islam by its presence?

Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that blind ignorance afflicts members of the Green Party. If one takes a lesson from the party's peace and security critic, Ronnie Smith, who while defending Mr. Estrin's right to his opinion, but that his "knee-jerk reaction and irresponsible use of history was insulting, poorly conceived and reveals a tremendous lack of judgement unbefitting the author's post", puts a neat end-note on the issue.

A simple remedy exists: cut off his head; Lewis Carroll must have inspired the Islamists to beheading Zionist infidels.