Palestinian Self-Actualization Achieved Through Destroying Israel

"FBI  Chicago is conducting court-authorized law-enforcement activity in the Chicago area in relation to yesterday's tragic shooting in Washington, D.C."

"Last night's act of terror has the full attention of the FBI. Targeted antisemitic violence is an attack on our core values and will be met with the full weight of federal law enforcement."

"The individual responsible will be held accountable, and the bureau will continue pursuing every lead until justice is served." 

FBI Director Kash Patel

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy killed outside the  Capital Jewish Museum, May 22, 2025, Photo: AP

Sarah Lynn Milgrim/Yaron Lischinsky

The Chicago apartment of Elias Rodriguez was raided on Thursday by the FBI on a search for evidence in the investigation of the 30-year-old who stands accused of killing two Israeli embassy employees the night before, in Washington. After he shot Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, after pacing about in front of the Jewish museum and attacking four people leaving an event at the museum, opening fire on the two employees of the Israeli delegation to Washington, the shooter entered the museum in a state of visually disheveled psychosis. Thinking he was a man in fear and distress after hearing shots outside, he was offered aid and sympathy by those within the museum.

 

Security personnel at the museum apprehended the killer until police arrived. Social media videos show Rodriguez shouting, "Free, free Palestine", a red kaffiyeh fallen at his feet -- while police officers arrested him. Dan Bongino, FBI deputy director, stated the bureau "is aware of certain writings allegedly authored by the suspect, and we hope to have updates as to the authenticity very soon."

"The text of the manifesto stated that non-violent protests against Israel's actions in Gaza have been insufficient, and states that the 'perpetrators and abettors' of genocide have 'forfeited their humanity'."

"It also praises Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old active-duty U .S. Airman who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 2024."

Anti-Defamation League 

A day following the shooting of the two Israeli embassy employees, the Anti-Defamation League announced that its investigations had connected Rodriguez "with a high degree of certainty" to a manifesto circulating on social media, titled "Escalate for Gaza. Bring the War Home". Posts linked to the murderer on a social media account contain statements confirming that he holds far-left, violent, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel sentiments.

"Once in handcuffs, the suspect identified where he discarded the weapon, and that weapon has been recovered, and  he implied that he committed the offence."

"We believe the shooting was committed by a single suspect."

Washington Police Chief 

There are many more like this man scattered in some degree of profusion throughout Western society, infected by the scourge of Jew-hate, who feel empowered in the current climate of open normalization of antisemitism. The lack of official reaction throughout the West, in North America and in Europe, to the constant gathering of 'pro-Palestinian' supporters organized by Palestinian youth groups and supported by academia, unions and the general underbelly of any society of Jew-haters have spewed their volatile acid of hate and incitements to violence without repercussions.

 

Anti-Israel protesters block a downtown Toronto street to pray as police watch. Photo by Caryma Sa’d/X

Student groups comprised primarily and led by Muslim students -- and featuring Palestinian student leader organizers who demonize Israel, and hold Jews wherever they live accountable for the military actions undertaken by the state of Israel in response to the barbaric savagery of Palestinian terrorists in their thousands invading southern Israel in a chaotic spree of rape, mutilation, looting, and mass murder all of which are construed by the mobs of haters as just actions by a people struggling against 'occupation' by a genocidal neighbour -- have been given free reign to threaten Jewish students while spouting slanderous accusations. 

That lack of intervention by authorities who should logically be upholding laws against inciting to violence and civic law-breaking have gone a far distance to encouraging the entitlement of organizers to mount ever more blatantly hateful rallies, aggressive and threatening toward residents of Jewish neighbourhoods, and by their inaction enabling and encouraging vandalism of Jewish businesses, synagogues and community centers. 

 

A toddler murdered by Hamas in his home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, October 7th, 2023

 

Above all, the finishing touches so recently mounted by the Prime Minister of Britain in alliance with France's President and Canada's newly-elected Prime Minister in issuing a joint statement condemning Israel for its 'disproportionate' response to the slaughter of Israelis, where the invasion of Gaza and the search for Hamas leaders and their terrorist operatives have led to collateral civilian deaths and injuries have led to Western leaders censuring Israel, while refraining from pressuring Qatar's influence to force Hamas to release the Israeli hostages languishing between life and death in Gaza.

 

The pious sanctimony of France's Macron, Britain's Starmer and Canada's Carney in lecturing and distorting a situation where a Jewish nation faces enemy violations of human rights in the commitment of Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and the Islamic Republic of Iran's charter of Israel's destruction at their hands and the release of ancestral Judean lands for the ethnic rabble who call themselves Palestinians to take hold of the state they repeatedly turned down in negotiations with Israel, finally achieving their objective of destroying Israel and annihilating Jews appears a prospect not entirely displeasing to Canada/Britain/France on the record of their response to the Jewish state's existential trauma.

Dozens of body bags of Israeli youth massacred by Hamas terrorist during the Nova festival

Little wonder then, when Western academia, unions, leadership, politics all align in favour of the  violence expressed by Palestinians and their supporters, catalyze the psychotic hatred of the death-cult of terrorism to propel committed antisemites of either Western heritage or Middle Eastern to act out their fantasies of murder of Jews standing in the way of imagined Palestinian self-actualization achieved through unbridled lethal violence.  

The  two Israeli embassy employees unmercifully shot to death by an acolyte of Palestinian terrorism, schooled by social media, by academic student and faculty demonstrations, by the disinterest of political authorities in putting a stop to the growing aura of violent entitlement represent the latest innocent victims of a hate-juggernaut whose impetus grows in lock-step with ongoing frenzied symbols of Islamist conquest of the West, of which Israel is only the first target, and the sole nation fighting a war that will eventually sweep through the entirety of Western democracy.

 

Abandoning Israel and Acquiescing to Antisemitism

"[The France/Britain/Canada joint statement condemning/warning Israel on Gaza would be] read, amplified and weaponized by those who seek to justify violence and hatred against Jews in Canada."

"When the government of Canada speaks about this conflict, it is not only addressing events in the Middle East -- it is shaping the climate for Jews in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and beyond." 

Jewish Community Council of Montreal

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the District Court in Tel Aviv on May 19, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures during a visit in Kingston upon Hull, England, March 13, 2025. (Oli Scarff/Pool Photo via AP); France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the National Contest for Resistance and Deportation event, at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 7, 2025. (Michel Euler / POOL / AFP); Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a campaign rally in Toronto, on April 4, 2025. (Peter Power/AFP)

It took no time at all in the wake of the initial concern expressed by Israel's allies over the dread events of October 7, 2023 -- when thousands of Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists stormed across from Gaza into southern Israel to rape, maim and murder 1,200 Israeli infants, elderly, families, foreign farm workers and IDF members, taking 250 children, women and men hostage back to Gaza to be kept in inhumane conditions as barter for exchange of Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons -- for those allies to turn their backs on Israel. 

 

The kibbutzim that were raided and destroyed by the terrorists were peopled by Israelis who viewed Palestinians sympathetically and hired many at good wages for agricultural work. Their empathy was rewarded in barbaric savagery. The very Palestinians with whom Israelis had forged friendly relations, offering them employment hard to come by in Gaza were among those who helped the terror invaders with hand-drawn maps indicating where Kibbutz security could be found, and some among them accompanied the terrorists as ordinary Palestinian civilians advantaging themselves of the opportunities to loot and destroy.

 

Palestinian terrorists move towards the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7.   Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

That kind of betrayal of the goodwill that was given them was difficult to parse as that part of human nature that is more given to evil than to good. But it is the back-stabbing betrayal of those choosing to counter Israel's response to the horrors of October 7 through its determination to finally destroy the death cult representing Palestinian terrorism in the final realization that it could never be turned around and the necessity of defeating it militarily leading to the Israel Defense Forces hunting down of Hamas operatives shielding themselves from repercussions by melting into the densely populated cities of Gaza and the myriad tunnel system with its stores of weaponry.

 

While Israel faced added assaults from Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Islamic regime in Iran, added to the ongoing rocket attacks from Gaza -- defending itself on all fronts, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands critiqued what they characterized as 'group punishment' meted out to Palestinians in the Israeli military actions to root out the terrorists from among the civilians who gave those terrorists the supporting mandate for October 7's atrocities. 

On the streets of Europe and North America a staggering number of Palestinians, Muslim immigrants and hordes of non-Muslim unions, academics, university students and others rallied in support of Palestinian 'liberation' from 'occupation', championing Hamas as 'freedom fighters', and slandering Israel as 'oppressors' of Palestinians whose leaders at every junction, turned down the opportunities given them to bargain in good faith toward an agreement to recognize Israel and form an agreed-upon state of their own. While the world echoed 'two-state solution', Palestinians taunted 'From the river to the sea', 'global Intifada', and 'Final Solution!' alongside 'Jews go back to Poland'.

 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside the fenced in area of an encampment on the University of Toronto campus in Canada on May 2, 2024. Photo by Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images.

Condemning Israel for its purported 'disproportionate' response to an existential threat that Hamas promised to repeat unendingly, France, Canada and the United Kingdom signed a condemnatory statement denouncing Israel for its military action in Gaza, citing the Gaza Health Authority on the toll taken by the Palestinian population as unacceptable to their sense of moral sanctimony. All three have chosen to abandon their own Jewish citizens to the mobs that have howled after them, threatened them and committed unlawful acts that authorities refuse to put a stop to.

 

In Canada, former Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet chose to lend their support to the large and growing Muslim population in Canada unified against Israel in support of the Palestinian claim to Jewish ancestral land as their own, intolerably 'occupied' by Jews. The Trudeau Liberals chose to deviate from Canada's traditional firm alliance with Israel by voting against Israel in UN General Assembly sanctions against the Jewish state. When the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trudeau signalled he would be arrested if he came to Canada.

 

Antisemitism thrived and grew under the Liberal government, and it continues to under its newly-renewed mandate to continue governing under a new prime minister who appointed the same cabinet ministers to variant portfolios, all of whom have lost no time in repeating the slanders of the past against Israel, all of whom are content to allow unbridled chaos on the streets of Canadian cities as Palestinian-organized rallies harass Canadian Jews in front of their synagogues, community centres, old-age homes, parochial schools and residential communities. 

Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney speaks to his supporters after winning the Canadian Federal Election on April 29, 2025 (Photo: Getty Images)

 

 

France, Britain, Canada Demonizing Israel

 

"[The leaders of Canada, France and the U.K. have succumbed to] offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities."

"This is a war of civilization over barbarism." 

"Israel will continue to defend itself by just means until total victory is achieved."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

 

"If Israel were to cease targeting Hamas, hostages would remain chained n tunnels and Hamas would repeat the October 7 massacre -- as it has explicitly vowed."

"If Hamas were to release the hostages and cease targeting Israel, a future of hope and prosperity would open for the people of Gaza."

Noah Shack, interim president, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Canada 

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Israeli solders stand next to tanks parked near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Israel on Monday.    Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

 

Jewish citizens of France, Britain and Canada may have been shocked at the condemnation issued by the three leaders of those countries against Israel for what they construe as 'disproportionate' military action undertaken by the State of Israel in response to the savagery unleashed when thousands of Hamas terrorists joined by the PLFP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah operatives, all intent on sadistically raping, mutilating, burning alive, and slaughtering 1,200 mostly Israeli civilians in an orgy of bestiality not seen since the Holocaust, on October 7, 2023. Israel's response since then has been to carry out a promised military move to destroy the capacity of Palestinian terrorism to wreak horror on Israelis at any future time.

 

Although the Israel Defense Forces' actions have been relatively measured in comparison to past world wars in terms of civilian deaths, Hamas publicity and public relations inflating numbers of civilian deaths by failing to distinguish civilians from militant terrorists as the latter, as always, took shelter behind the former with the direct intention of sacrificing Palestinian lives in favour of sheltering the lives of terrorists. A useful outcome was achieved for Hamas; 'saving' the lives of its terrorist fighters, while increasing the numbers of Palestinian civilians whose deaths could be used in accusing Israel of 'genocide'.

 

The humanitarian steps that the IDF employs to minimize civilian deaths are of no account to its Western critics who portray themselves as allies of Israel and foes of Islamist imperialist jihad, whom leaders in the West puzzlingly choose to credit by quoting Hamas charges of genocide against Palestinians, leading them to warn and finally threaten Israel with isolation and sanctions for not adequately providing food aid to the very population that elected and approved of the actions of their terrorist leaders who not only use them as human shields, but take possession of humanitarian aid for themselves, meant for civilian relief. 

 

Palestinian terrorists move toward the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7.    Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

 

The same European countries experience no troubled conscience in betraying Israel, withholding support for its existential dilemma, while championing Palestinians who have consistently turned down one peace agreement after another in favour of their own vision of an absent Israel whose ancestral land these Arab 

'Palestinians' claim as their own. In the same token while Europe and North America stand firm in their support of Ukraine which faces a threat of extinction at the hands of Russian expansionism, it becomes clear that what divides one situation from the other is the involvement of the future of Jewish life.

 

The situation such that Israel's Prime Minister reacts with incredulity at the sanctimony of Canada, the United Kingdom and France threatening 'action' against Israel citing its military offensive in Gaza. The unexpected joint statement from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, recall the years of the Holocaust when all three nations failed in their humanitarian obligation to give Jews refuge from the Nazi juggernaut overtaking Europe. While the three countries iterated their support of Israel's right of defence, they condemn its defence as "wholly disproportionate". Sentiments that have pleased Hamas mightily, prompting them to congratulate Canada (and not for the first time), France and Britain.

 

Photographs of some of those taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel are seen in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 18.   Leon Neal/Getty Images

 

"I want to put on record today that we're horrified by the escalation from Israel", Keir Starmer informed the British Parliament as he announced the suspension of free trade negotiations with Israel, and the ordering of new sanctions on West Bank settlements. European foreign ministers in Brussels are considering a proposal to review and suspend EU trade cooperation with Israel, led by the Netherlands, considered one of Israel's close allies in the bloc.

 

A reminder to Israel's detractors came by way of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' director general Eden Bar Tal who reminded them that the country had accepted the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff's ceasefire proposal along with release of the hostages -- which Hamas promptly rejected, while continuing to hold their Ace card; innocent people whom they hold prisoner under inhumane conditions as a bargaining tactic for the release of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons, while continuing to send rockets from Gaza into Israel. 

Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. February 22, 2025.   (photo credit: Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Abandoning Israel, Pacifying Islamist Jihad

"We cannot allow the continued use of food as a political tool... Over 50,000 people have died as a result of the aggression caused against the Palestinians and the Gazan people in Palestine. Using food as a political tool is simply unacceptable."

"We need to continue to work towards a ceasefire. We need to ensure that we have a two-state solution, and Canada will continue to maintain that position."

Liberal Cabinet Minister, Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand takes part in the cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall when she took over the position from Mélanie Joly. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)

"Israel is [the] only country in the world that could be attacked on seven fronts and described as being the aggressor."

"Were doing everything we can to fight a terrorist organization and we're not going to fight it in a non-aggressive way."

Lt.Col. Nadav Shoshani

If, when Foreign Affairs Minister Anand made that statement to news reporters in a casual scrum, it seemed slightly off-kilter in a new-old government with a new mandate under a new prime minister, yet it took a week before there was any indication from Canada's new prime minister, Mark Carney that she was not speaking off the cuff on her own, but rather expressing this new government's position on Israel. Her predecessor famously/infamously made reference with respect to her own expressed antipathy to Israel that she had her constituents in mind; little did the Canadian public realize that the Trudeau government's betrayal of its longtime ally Israel ran through the Liberal caucus, with the same cabinet MPs reintroduced in the 'new' cabinet.

 

The latest statement of Canada's new foreign minister is to reveal that Prime Minister Mark Carney had spoken to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to 'discuss the  urgent need' for Hamas to release the remaining 58 hostages (23 of whom are believed to be still alive), 'lay down its weapons and have no role in Gaza'. A ceasefire, 'a two-state solution' and resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza was also discussed, she revealed. And then came the second part of Anita Anand's statement where she ascribed 'aggression' to Israel, imputing its starvation of Gazans as a weapon of war, clearing up the mystery of her boss's silence.

 

When Canada, Britain and France issued a joint statement in condemnation of Israel's military operations expansion in Gaza with their threat of concrete action, including potential sanctions against Israel. "We will not stand by while the Netanyahu government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response", they warned. No word of Hamas operatives warehousing looted humanitarian aid meant for the Palestinian civilian population. No word of continued rockets hurled by Hamas into Israel.

No word of the need for Qatar to 'influence' Hams to return all the Israeli  hostages, dead and alive without further delay. 

"Israel must halt settlements which are illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and the security of both Israelis and Palestinians."

"We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions." 

Palestinians break through the Israel-Gaza border fence on October 7, 2023, as terrorists  infiltrated areas of southern Israel. Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa, Reuters

When Hamas led an attack on southern Israel with the planned intention to carry out mass rape, to mutilate helpless women, children and elderly, to ransack and loot and burn agrarian towns and massacre their residents along with foreign farm workers, then after a death toll of 1,200, gather 250 helpless hostages; children, entire families, the elderly, male and female Israeli soldiers to be used as bargaining chips in future negotiations for the release of terrorists from Israeli prisons, Israel pledged to finally destroy the terrorist groups that had been attacking the Jewish state for decades.

 

Lt.-Col. Shoshani begged to differ with the leaders of France, the U.K. and Canada, reminding them that Hamas began the conflict with its ongoing violent belligerence capped off by its sadistic savagery on full display on October 7, 2023. And Hamas could, at any point since then, easily have brought an end to the conflict by laying down their arms, releasing the hostages, and surrendering their control of the Gaza Strip to a civilian administration. Instead it chose to use Gaza's civilian population as  shields and tragic puppets in death for their public relations campaign demonizing Israel as 'genocidal'.

 

France, Britain and Canada, with their intake of large numbers of Palestinians and other Muslims sympathetic to the publicity and strident claims of victimhood of Palestinians against the 'aggressor' Israel, which had never initiated conflict with Palestinians, and only ever responded to the never-ending acts of lethal violence in self-defense, have succumbed to the pressure of sufficient numbers of Islamists within their own societies to oppose Israel in hopes of appeasing their own Islamist hordes, in that classic move of 'feeding the crocodiles' among them. 

Western democracies choosing to take the statistics bruited by the Gaza Health Authority as believable, over the attestations of reality emanating from Israeli authorities. Choosing to ignore the reality that over the lifetime of the Jewish state, negotiations with Palestinian leaders over recognition of a Palestinian state went nowhere because while Israel gave concessions to achieve an agreement, none were ever given by the Palestinians. Their 'want' was the disappearance of Israel and the entire region dedicated to a Palestinian state. They never, ever desired a two-state solution. That was the goal of the West.

 

Palestinians make their way with belongings as they flee their homes after the Israeli military issued orders for evacuation from eastern Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

Canada, France, Britain -- Incentivizing Terrorism

Prime Minister of Canada

"We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable. Yesterday’s announcement that Israel will allow a basic quantity of food into Gaza is wholly inadequate. We call on the Israeli Government to stop its military operations in Gaza and immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. This must include engaging with the UN to ensure a return to delivery of aid in line with humanitarian principles. We call on Hamas to release immediately the remaining hostages they have so cruelly held since 7 October 2023."

"The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law. We condemn the abhorrent language used recently by members of the Israeli Government, threatening that, in their despair at the destruction of Gaza, civilians will start to relocate. Permanent forced displacement is a breach of international humanitarian law."

"Israel suffered a heinous attack on October 7. We have always supported Israel’s right to defend Israelis against terrorism. But this escalation is wholly disproportionate."

"We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response."

"We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank. Israel must halt settlements which are illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and the security of both Israelis and Palestinians.  We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions."

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank

Israel has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March to try to pressure Hamas into freeing hostages.  PHOTO: REUTERS

Now it is abundantly clear and out in the open: Canada's 'new' government is merely a retread of the 'old' Liberal government, but bolder and more to the point. Yes, expressions of sympathy for Israel's plight in being the target of a death-cult terror group whose constant attacks are merely an expression of their intention to annihilate Jews while destroying their state. And the October 7 attack in southern Israel on mostly Israeli civilians was certainly unfortunate so it is understandable that Israel would respond. But the offensive that transpired is beyond what Canada, France and Britain will accept. Israel, they thunder, is killing Palestinian civilians; the Hamas Health Authority says so, in huge numbers. 

Therefore, Israel's intention to counter Hamas's charter pledge of its destruction is simply unacceptable, and if continued, there will be consequences, promises the trio of nations whose populations are now swelled with the presence of sullen, antagonistic and often violently threatening Islamists, citizens with voting rights whose numbers have become impressively entitled to produce volatile and violent exhibitions of Islamist disaffection with Western democracies and the presence within them of Jewish populations long prior established as loyal citizens, now left in casual disregard by the nations for whom Jewish defence/offence is quite simply offensive.

 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators waves Palestinian flags and burn flares during a demonstration against Israel outside the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest's grand final in Basel on May 17, 2025. Photo- AFP

The streets and highways of Canada, Britain and France are regularly suffused by overwhelming numbers of Hamas-supporting demonstrators stopping traffic, rallying before federal buildings, praying en masse, protesting in front of synagogues and Jewish neighbourhoods shouting prescriptions for a new range of Final Solutions to an age-old problem of a Jewish presence anywhere in the world, as Intifadas to be universalized, and campaigns to be finalized 'From the river to the sea', urging Jews to return to 'Poland' where the unfinished work of the Holocaust can be resumed.

 

The statement of condemnation released today by Canada, jointly with France and England is a start, one that the Hamas authority -- whatever is left of it after Israel's dedicated military campaign to eradicate them all -- busily persuading Palestinians not yet completely in their orbit to join them in replacing those that have been lost, to rebuild their military might for ongoing attacks that the group and others among them relentlessly pursue in their dedicated mission of death-dealing. Perhaps Hamas could persuade the three to begin providing it with weaponry with which to defend itself from Israeli malevolent reprisals?

 

There is no indication that the three leaders have taken into account the fact that were the Israeli  hostages to be released, the siege of Gaza would be over. Nor do they recognize publicly that Hamas operatives have taken possession of huge volumes of humanitarian relief supplies meant to be apportioned out to Palestinian civilians, not the terrorists who have warehoused it all for their own use. And no acknowledgement of the fact that Hamas and its partners Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Yemeni Houthis continue sending rockets into Israel. Let alone that West Bank Palestinians under the Palestinian Authority that incites them to violence, continue to attack Israelis.

 

For the Palestinians, however, the good news story is the West, not only its politicians, but its academic faculties, its unions, and many individuals within the populations of all three nations who revel in antisemitic expressions, take great pride in standing alongside Palestinians in their organized rallies to pressure governments at every level in these countries who refuse to take any security and law-enforcing steps to protect their Jewish populations and defuse the constant social-disturbing eruptions of anti-Israel rallies, preferring to protect instead the rally organizers and their followers.

 

Little wonder that Hamas was moved to acknowledge its satisfaction and appreciation toward the leadership of Canada, France and Britain, taking time out of its busy schedule of rearming, reorganizing, recruiting, to congratulate the leaders of the three Western countries for standing in solidarity with Palestinian 'liberation'. 

 

"By asking Israel to end a defensive war for our survival before Hamas terrorists on our border are destroyed and by demanding a Palestinian state, the leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities." 

"The war can end tomorrow if the remaining hostages are released, Hamas lays down its arms, its murderous leaders are exiled and Gaza is demilitarized. No nation can be expected to accept anything less and Israel certainly won't."  

"This is a war of civilization over barbarism. Israel will continue to defend itself by just means until total victory is achieved."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response

The People's Liberation Army Military Technological Advances

China unveiled at least three mobile, ground-based, high-power microwave-directed energy weapon systems during the Zhuhai Air Show in November. According to the excerpted article published on Chinese blog and news outlet Sina, these weapons are capable of paralyzing hundreds of drones with one strike and could give China an advantage in future wars. The article argues that the new weapon system will be an especially important counter-drone technology. The article outlines several key advantages of the high-power microwave weapons:

1. They can quickly deploy, lock onto, and attack a target the moment it comes into range
2. They produce electromagnetic pulses over a wide area and can attack multiple drones simultaneously
3. They are economical to employ, do not consume ammunition, such as missiles and artillery, and can be launched multiple times in succession
4. They are ideal in more complex environments, including urban settings, compared to traditional kinetic weapons, preventing civilian casualties and preserving necessary infrastructure

Specifically, China North Industries Group Corporation unveiled the Hurricane 2000 and Hurricane 3000 high-power microwave weapons systems. The article describes the first system as a large, flat array mounted on top of an 8×8 light armored vehicle chassis[i] or similar variant. The system features a small rotating radar for target detection and tracking. The second system, larger than the first, is mounted on a Shaanxi Auto SX2400/2500 series 8×8 truck. It also includes “planar arrays and radars.” Some sources claim the Hurricane 2000 and Hurricane 3000 have an effective range of 2000 to 3000 meters, an order of a magnitude higher than the U.S. manufactured Leonidas high-power microwave weapon system.[ii] The article also describes a third high-power microwave weapon system, which comes from China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. Like the Hurricane 3000, it rides atop the Shaanxi Auto SX2400/2500 series 8×8 trucks.

According to the article, China has achieved major breakthroughs in the field of high-energy microwave weapons, which could indeed give it an edge in future warfare. Finally, China’s microwave weapon systems underscore its commitment to developing advanced weapons technologies, particularly to counter emerging aerial threats, such as UAVs.

Foreign Military Studies Office, U.S. Army, Training and Doctrine Command

 

"China attracts customers for its military equipment with cut-rate pricing and financing, but there are hidden costs -- especially when gear malfunctions", wrote Cindy Zheng, as a researcher at Rand Corp. before joining the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Inferior, low-cost, advanced technology on the surface, seemingly a kind of built-in obsolescence-production. Myanmar, facing the reality of structural cracks and other technical issues in its fleet of Chinese-made fighter jets, complained to Beijing in 2022.

 

Pakistan's Navy has been grappling with issues in its F-22P frigates bought from China, having to operate the vessels with wholly degraded capabilities. Bangladesh complained to Beijing about its Chinese-made military hardware's lack of quality, last year. "Questions about combat capabilities and other issues, including concerns about interoperability with non-Chinese platforms have hampered China's ability to expand exports beyond a handful of countries", observed Bloomberg Intelligence senior associate analyst Eric Zhu.

 

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But wait...during the recent conflict between India and Pakistan, Pakistan celebrated its Chinese J-10Cs, claiming to have shot down five Indian fighter jets, among them French-made Rafale aircraft, in response last week to Indian military strikes. India has not commented and though the reports have yet to be confirmed, the jet's maker saw its market capitalization rise by over 55 billion yuan (US$10-B). Leading China's nationalist Global Times to warn that "Taiwan should feel even more scared" if the Pakistani strikes were fact. 

Indeed, according to Shu Hsiao-Huang, an associate research fellow at the Institute of National Defence and Security Research, a think-tank based in Taipei, Taiwan had scrutinized the clash between Pakistan and India. "We may need to reassess the PLA's (People's Liberation Army) air combat capabilities, which may be approaching -- or even surpassing -- the level of U.S. air power deployments in East Asia". The J-10Cs have had few battle tests, are used to patrol the Taiwan Strait by the Chinese military's Rocket Force whose combat-readiness has been in question. How they would stand up against U.S. fighters like the F-16 is still in doubt.

Sources: CSIS, US Navy and Naval Technology

Yet another Chinese weapon in Pakistan's military arsenal is set to come under intense scrutiny, the PL-15 missiles deployed on Pakistan's J-10C aircraft, parts of which were found in India following the reported shootdowns. The PL-15 is rival to Western air-to-air missiles, with its top speed above Mach 5. This latest development could support Beijing's sales pitch. "There is a good chance the weapons systems China is able to offer will be even more appealing to potential buyers", noted James Char, of the China Program, S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies. 

While Chinese-produced weapons exports have been plagued by defects that add to the operational costs of the inexpensive systems, draining security budgets for maintenance expenses, customers for Chinese-produced weapons are largely developing nations with limited funds, which can ill-afford escalating repair costs for cheaply-produced-and-sold weapons. 

In the same token, China has been focusing on transforming the PLA to a modern force which has led to breakthroughs such as China's first next-generation amphibious assault ships, the largest of their kind. The country's test flight of its sixth-generation fighter jet circulated on social media brought a rally in defence stocks. "A lot is being learned about how Chinese systems perform under combat conditions", suggested M. Taylor Fravel, director of Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

As the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) seeks to become a “world-class military,” its progress in advanced weapons systems continues to provoke intense concern from its neighbors and competitors. The Chinese military and China’s defense industry have been pursuing significant investments in robotics, swarming, and other applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Thus far, advances in weapons systems described or advertised as “autonomous” (自主) or “intelligentized” (智能化) have built upon existing strengths in the research and development of unmanned (无人) systems and missile technology. While difficult to evaluate the sophistication of these emerging capabilities, this initial analysis concentrates on indicators of progress in weapons systems that may possess a range of levels of autonomy.

Brookings Institute

 

Victims of Communism -- Complicit with Nazism

"Over the years, we have submitted documentation detailing the atrocities committed by several individuals on the [memorial] list -- including in 2021, when we provided comprehensive evidence of the war crimes committed by Janis Niedra against Latvia's Jewish population."

"It is deeply disturbing that, despite our repeated warnings and the clear, documented evidence, the name of a Nazi involved in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust was ultimately engraved on the Memorial."

"This is simply unacceptable."

Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, senior director, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center 

The Victims of Communism memorial opened to the public with no names inscribed. Photo by JULIE OLIVER /POSTMEDIA

 

The seemingly endless saga of the The Victims of Communism Memorial's Wall of Remembrance goes on and on, with no end in sight, and no enlightenment by the Department of Canadian Heritage. More latterly revealed is that despite having been warned in 2021 that a Nazi collaborator who actively took part in the execution of Jews during the Holocaust, his name nonetheless was engraved to be placed among hundreds of others purporting to be victims of Communism, on a monument that sought to sanctify them as heroes for opposing Communism.

 

The nameplate that was meant to commemorate Janis Niedra had been installed on the memorial in 2023, according to government records obtained under the Access to Information Act, then later removed. By the time the memorial was formally opened in late 2024, no names were installed on the memorial. The inexplicable reason that Canadian Heritage permitted the commemorative nameplate for Niedra -- despite warnings from the Friends of Sion Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies -- to be originally installed has never been explained. 

The Department had been provided with research data indicating that Niedra had led a group of some 40 men on a mission to assist the Nazis in rounding up and executing about 350 Latvian Jews; mostly women, children and seniors. Niedra died in 1969, but it was known that he served the Nazis in various positions in Latvia. He arrived in Canada following war's end. Ricochet Media, an investigative online news outlet, had reported the existence of the nameplate.

 

Niedra's name had been removed before the public inauguration of the memorial after having been flagged in 2023 when a Canadian Heritage employer raised concerns regarding the man's Nazi connections. The main concern in the department was that the public, or news media, might recognize the name engraved on the memorial. That nameplate, as well as others for the memorial "are being stored at a National Capital commission facility" Canadian Heritage spokesperson Caroline Czajkowski confirmed. 

 

The memorial sits on the west side of the Garden of the Provinces and Territories in downtown Ottawa. Photo by JULIE OLIVER /POSTMEDIA

 

Canadian Heritage had been repeatedly warned that numerous individuals slated to be honoured on the memorial did not represent victims; they were instead Nazi collaborators responsible for having played significant rules in the Holocaust and in perpetrating other crimes against humanity. Concerns were raised by Jewish organizations and historians that names of eastern Europeans who had collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust had been nominated in a deliberate move to whitewash their past. 

Roman Shukheyvych, a Ukrainian nationalist who collaborated with the Nazis and who was linked to the massacres of Jews and Poles, was among those being commemorated. Only after, in 2021, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center repeatedly raised the matter with the department, had Shukheyvych's name finally been removed. Ludwik Klimkowski, chairman of Tribute to Liberty, posted on social media platform X his sentiments regarding concerns that the monument was honouring Nazi collaborators: "Let's stop the nonsense of the Nazi commemoration perpetrated by Canadian Marxists and the agents of the Kremlin's regime", he wrote.

 

"It's important to note that many anti-Communist and anti-Soviet advocates and fighters were also active Nazi collaborators, who committed documented massacres", Global Affairs Canada officials warned their counterparts at Canadian Heritage in 2021, as federal officials in other departments also continued to warn Canadian Heritage that including Nazi collaborators on the memorial would be the cause of international embarrassment for Canada. 

A report prepared for Canadian Heritage in 2024 had recommended that over half of the 550 names proposed for inclusion on the memorial should be removed because of potential links to Nazi Germany's 'Final Solution'. There were originally to be 553 entries on the memorial's Wall of Remembrance. Some 50 to 60 names or organizations had already been determined by the department itself, to have likely been directly linked to the Nazis, according to the documents. 

"In 2021, we discovered that one particular Nazi leader was being honoured by the Memorial and it took us more than a year of very active advocacy efforts before his name was finally removed."

"We told officials repeatedly that we believed there could be a great number of Nazis being commemorated but sadly this problem did not appear to be a priority for the department."

"[The recent report commissioned by the department confirmed her organization’s worst fears], It finds that more half of the individuals commemorated in the memorial may have been Nazis or Nazi collaborators."

"It is totally unacceptable for Nazis and collaborators to be honoured by a Canadian public memorial, especially one meant to recognize victims of state violence and tyranny."

Jaime Kirzner-Roberts

The memorial opened in late 2024. Photo by JULIE OLIVER /POSTMEDIA