Canada's Badge of Shame

"The lines about 'Canada will support Israel'. Really?"

"Now you're not going to deliver weapons to Israel when we're fighting against sheer evil and we haven't finished the job?"

"Minister [Benny] Gantz said in one meeting that you don't take out 80 percent of the fire and leave 20 percent, hoping that  it's going to turn out for the best but knowing that it's going to come back to rage and take over Gaza."

"[Canada's decision] is not going to wear well historically. It might [work] for the moment with public opinion, with their finger in the wind because of the difficult pictures. I get it."

"But this is a moment that Canada is going to have to deal with for 10, 20, 30, 40 years -- that in Israel's darkest hour, they abandoned it."

"That's what they just did and, frankly, I think it's shameful."

Ron Dermer, Israeli minister of Strategic Affairs, member, 5-person Emergency War Cabinet

While responding to a question from Conservative MP Michael Chong, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said there are issues with the non-binding motion brought forward by the NDP that would officially recognize Palestinian statehood.

 

Yes, it's certainly true that in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist bloodbath in southern Israel that took place on October 7, 2023 when a flood of Hamas operatives, along with PLFP terrorists and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and even ordinary Palestinian citizens joined in, to perpetrate a series of horrific attacks on Israeli children, women and men that had been well-rehearsed and put into action the world was horrified. That the attackers enjoyed their practised scenarios of mass rape of girls and women, tormenting Israeli non-combatants, engaging in the murder of entire families whose homes they set afire, taking vulnerable citizens, the elderly and the frail, newly-orphaned children hostage back to Gaza, propelled Canada's PM Trudeau to pledge support of Israel's right to defend itself.

 

A collage of screen captures from videos recorded on October 7, 2023 showing Hamas attacks across southern Israel.

 

 

Most Canadians know that Justin Trudeau is a man whose promises are seldom kept; feel-good rhetoric that appeals to the masses from a master of virtuous declarations that no longer surprise Canadians when they are casually abandoned in the greater interests of solidarity with a large Canadian voting bloc comprised of Canadian-domiciled Arabs, Palestinians and Muslims for whom moral debasement leading to atrocities visited upon the helpless is a sign of strength to be celebrated. 

Following Justin Trudeau's assurance that Canada believed that Hamas had no place governing Gaza, an acknowledged terrorist group that Canada itself lists as such, Canada chose to vote in favour of a UN ceasefire resolution that failed to make mention of the atrocities perpetrated by the terrorist group in Israel on that hate-filled, fateful day of agony for Israel and joyful celebration for Gaza's Palestinian population. And while initially halting funding to UNWRA when it was revealed that some of its employees were not only members of Hamas but also took part in the bloodbath, Canada took no time in restoring that funding.

And then came the introduction of a proposal launched by the leftist New Democratic Party in Parliament that saw fit to lead the country to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. In the wake of its worst disaster, loss of Jewish life and grieving for Israeli infants, teens, girls, women, and the elderly held in Hamas's underground tunnels, abused and continually victimized in an orgy of bestiality hard to fathom but perfectly consonant with Islamist terrorist values, along comes the gift of recognition of legitimacy for the rapists and murderers, whose carnage brought Israeli retaliation against the enclave.

The House of Commons passed a softened NDP motion on Monday night that no longer calls for the federal government to officially recognize Palestinian statehood after last-minute amendments brought in by the governing Liberals.

 

The bloody assaults that took place in Israel on October 7 failed to resonate with an audience of Muslims in Canada who chose to celebrate the atrocities just as the perpetrators of mass rape and the bloodbath took pride in their murderous exploits by videoing them proudly for public distribution. Crowds of Muslims living in Canada came out in numbers to charge Israel with 'genocide' against Palestinians, somehow failing to notice that it is Hamas whose agenda is one of genocide against Jews. In Canada, no effort was made to restrain the Islamic protests against Israeli 'brutality' where cries of 'gas the Jews', 'Intifada', and 'From the river to the sea' rang out, promoting genocide

 

The NDP proposal to promote recognition of a Palestinian state in an amended form called for Canada to "cease the further authorization and transfer of arms exports to Israel". "It is a false premise to pick sides [in the conflict]" airily pronounced Canada's minister of foreign affairs, Melanie Joly. Picking 'sides' would entail, needless to say, support of a fellow democracy in the Middle East, risking raising the violent ire of Canada's extensive Muslim population. Better, in the interests of maintaining good relations and assuring a Liberal vote, to rank Israel's legitimacy alongside that of Hamas.

Canada is sensitive to the issue of approving applications for new permits for military goods produced in Canada to be exported to Israel, busily attempting to verify whether human rights could be violated in the process. Violations of human rights by the most moral military in the world. The absurdity of Canada's position is clarified by the reality that military exports from Canada to Israel amounted to $28.5 million in 2022, In contrast, Israel sold Ottawa more than a billion dollars in weapons systems that included key components for General Dynamics Canada's armoured personnel carriers and Iron Dome radar systems.

American anti-boycott legislation could be impacted by Canada's move. Ranking member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Jim Risch, declared himself disappointed that Canada's government chose to halt arms exports to Israel "in its fight against Hamas's unspeakable evil and antisemitic violence". This is the very man who co-sponsored the Israel anti-boycott act in 2018.

Clearly, Canada under Justin Trudeau and his Liberal minions have chosen to part company with their staunchest ally in the Middle East. The murder of over 1,200 Jews in the space of a day, the abduction of 240 children and adult civilians, the impact of which has been minimized in the greater interests of demonstrating compassion for the outcome of the conflict that Hamas initiated and which Israel is determined to destroy to ensure no further October 7's will materialize, has Canada's current government in the grip of a fatal moral malaise.

Protesters hold Palestinian flags during a rally to call for a ceasefire, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Ismail Shakil/File Photo