Goal: Destroying Hamas

Palestinian opportunists transporting an injured Israeli into Gaza as a hostage October 7

"I have no expectation that a terrorist organization would respect any international law or any call for a ceasefire."

"We are discussing ways in which we can make sure that humanitarian aid gets to those innocent civilians who are in a very difficult situation but at the same time, and we've been very clear, we support Israel's right to defend itself."

"[Israel was the victim of a] horrific [terrorist attack; that threat still exists for the Jewish state]."

"I think they have a right to defend themselves against a terrorist threat, and quite frankly, Hamas has to be eliminated as a threat, not just to Israel but to the world."

Canadian Defence Minister Bill Blair

 

"Any organization like this has to be destroyed."

"And no one should condone or excuse or underplay or deny."

"Dealing with it will require determination and strategy."

Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae

Israel's Iron Dome air defence system is shown during an attempted intercept of an incoming rocket, fired from the Gaza Strip, on Thursday. (Oded Balilty/The Associated Press)

Minister Blair is the sole cabinet minister in Canada's Liberal government to state that the terrorist group Hamas must be "eliminated". Hamas has been listed as a terrorist entity in Canada for years. Despite this, since the Hamas violent incursion into Israel and its attacks on border villages and kibbutzim that took 1,400 lives, with countless others injured, and well over 200 infants, teens, seniors, women and soldiers taken hostage, huge groups of 'pro-Palestinian' celebrants have publicly praised Hamas, raising its flag in Canadian cities.

 

Clear manifestations of hatred accompanied by shouts of "kill the Jews", "gas the Jews" and "Palestine will be free", rend the air, yet the federal government has done absolutely nothing to stop these events. And nor would Prime Minister Justin Trudeau state his agreement that Hamas must be destroyed. He noted, rather, that Canada has long considered Hamas as a terrorist organization. 

On October 21, Canada's prime minister visited a mosque to later express his opinion that "As members of the Palestinian, Arab and Black Muslim communities gathered for prayer yesterday, I wanted them to know this: We know you're worried and hurting. We're here for you. We will not stop advocating for civilians to be protected and for international law to be upheld".

Defence Minister Blair on the other hand, dismissed growing calls from within his own Liberal caucus, for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire. Two dozen Liberal Members of Parliament co-signed a letter along with NDP and Green MPs calling on Canada to join international calls for an "immediate ceasefire". What those international calls are comprised of, wasn't made clear, but none of Canada's collegial Western partners have called for anything similar to an 'immediate ceasefire'.

 

Scene of horror as Israelis try to escape death while being attacked by Hamas terrorists at music festival, October 7

 

On the other hand, opposition Conservatives and a handful of Liberals maintain that Israel has the right to defend itself after the October 7 terrorist attack that revealed the unbelievable extent of Hamas's contempt for human life. In itself recording the atrocities they committed, leaving those who have viewed the videos aghast at the unimaginable brutality they proved capable of committing. No one was immune from a grotesque death, often after having been mutilated. Brutal gang rapes and wanton slaughter the Hamas perpetrators were proud of.

Many of the Members of Parliament stated that Hamas must be destroyed before the possibility of a regional ceasefire can be contemplated in the realization that a pause in hostilities before the complete extirpation of the Hamas apparatus and its operatives, will only allow the terrorist organization to regroup and repeat its threat to Israeli existence.

In the 1990s when it seemed that a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinians could be achievable, Hamas pursued violence as the method of liberating Palestinian territories which included the land that Israel sits on rather than have an independent Palestine emerge and a situation leading to both it and Israel sharing land both lay claim to in what was being touted as the "two-state" solution. No one any longer believes in the feasibility of the 'two-state' solution; neither Israelis nor Palestinians, only those in the West.

 

Image from bodycam of Hamas terrorist invading an Israeli home

 

A video of Israeli officials succumbing to emotion while describing a family found murdered in their home during the Hamas attack, father and mother and two children, all showing signs of torture before they were finally killed by the terrorists. It was assumed, with good reason, that the parents and the children, firmly bound and seated opposite one another, were forced to witness the agonies the others suffered while being mutilated, before they were finally killed.

Black smoke rises from eastern Gaza City on Thursday in the wake of Israeli airstrikes. (Abed Khaled/The Associated Press)