Pope Leo's Two-State Solution

 

"Türkiye has a number of, if you will, qualities about it; it is a country with the vast majority being Muslims, and yet the presence of numerous Christian communities there, although a very small minority, and yet people of different religions are able to live in peace. And that is one example, I would say, of what I think we all would be looking for throughout the world."

"To say that in spite of religious differences, in spite of ethnic differences, in spite of many other differences, people can indeed live in peace. Türkiye itself has had, of course, in its history various moments when it was not always the case, and yet to have experienced that and to have been able to speak also with President Erdogan about peace, I think, was an important element, a worthwhile element of my visit."

Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo (C) was welcomed to Ankara by Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan   Anadolu via Getty Images

"Christians in Türkiye face everyday discrimination for their faith. Foreign Christians with Turkish spouses and children have been banned from entering or re-entering the country. Religion is recorded on the Turkish ID card, making it easy to discriminate against Christian job applicants. Even Greek and Armenian Christians who attend traditional churches aren't considered full members of Turkish society. Their churches struggle with legal obstacles and red tape intended to obstruct the practice of their faith."

"Historical Christian groups, such as the Armenian and Assyrian (Syriac) churches, face high pressure and hostility in the southeastern region of Türkiye. For decades, they have been caught between the rivalries of the Turkish army and Kurdish resistance groups. Most Christians from those churches no longer live in their ancestral regions but have moved to western areas of Türkiye."

Open Doors International 

"Ramazan Arkan, the pastor of the Antalya Evangelical Churches in Turkey, spoke during the meeting.

“Turkish churches face many difficulties and much discrimination, and unfortunately, when we have tried to address those issues with the Turkish authorities, we have most often been ignored because Christians are the religious minority in Turkey,” he said."

"Missionaries are also being deported. Their residence permits are not being renewed, and they are labeled as possible security threats. Fearing they could be deported at any time, many foreign missionaries in Turkey avoid participating in church meetings or activities to go undetected."

"Members of the Christian community are not free from hate crimes, either. Many of them face threats and social isolation online."

"We encounter speech filled with insults and profanity directed at official church social media accounts, church leaders, Christianity, Christian values, and Christians in general,” the Turkish Association of Protestant Churches stated in its latest Human Rights Report."

Persecution.Org. International Christian Concern 

“We will not allow you to brainwash our Muslim youth!” the man shouted from his car. “Oh, infidels, you will be defeated and swept up into hell!”  Persecution.Org

 

Pope Leo  travelled to Turkey to attend the historic Nicaea gathering dating from the Christian gathering at the Turkish city of Nicaea in A.D.325 of bishops from the Eastern and Western churches in unity with one another; Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant; where the Nicaean Creed originated. While he was in Turkey he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, where discussions took place related to the conflict in Gaza. Pope Leo asked Mr. Erdogan to work toward bringing peace to Gaza.

 

Just as Pope Leo has exonerated Turkey from persecution of Christians in Turkey -- where significantly, ancient Constantinople was the eastern seat of Christianity under Emperor Constantine whose mother Helena, an early convert to Christianity, persuaded her son to support Christianity. Constantinople's  transition to Istanbul, Turkey's largest city and its cultural capital took place in 1080 when Seljuk Turks invaded, installing Islam and wrenching the country from Christianity -- so too does he overlook the very fact that it is Erdogan himself that supports Gaza's terror against Israel. 

 

He cannot be unaware that President Erdogan's Sunni Islamist ideology is one of conquest achieved by violent force. Nor can he be ignorant of the fact that Erdogan has given haven to Hamas leaders, and along with Qatar, arms and supports Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups on a cohort with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet this pope has chosen to foster amicable relations with a dictator who persecutes his own country's Christians and actively engages in the jihadist Islamofascist plot to destroy Israel.

 

Catholics, in their faith creed universally recite "I believe in one God, the Father almighty...", yet give no mind to the fact that their monotheistic religion owes its existence to Judaism. In humble deference to the source of their one-God creed it might behoove the Catholic Church to recognize its indebtedness to the Judaic YHWH, the source of all they hold dear in their faith. That it was a Jewish man whose Judaic prescriptions they revere, and that the welfare of that crux of civilization would be of concern to Catholics and to the Pope.

 

Pope Francis stops to pray in front of a Nativity scene from Bethlehem in the Vatican audience hall Dec. 7, 2024. The baby Jesus is lying on a white and black kaffiyeh, a Palestinian headdress. Around the star, written in Arabic and Latin, are the words of the angels: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to people of good will." (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

 

Instead, Israel, the home of the Jewish world, is held by this Pope, as it has been by his predecessors as a condemned entity, itself persecuted throughout the ages by the Catholic Church itself, a tradition that continues, now honouring a narrative of victimhood of those calling themselves Palestinians, oppressed by an 'occupying force' engaged in the commission of genocide. Pope Francis's honouring of a 'Palestinian' Jesus before his death spoke volumes of a willing abandonment of the source of Christianity, preferring to honour an Arab pretender to a Jewish originator of the religion 1.4 billion people worship globally.

 

Insisting that a two-state solution is an absolute necessity to see an end to the 80-year old conflict between the Jewish world and that of Islam that focuses on a 'Palestinian State' when since 1947 onward that Palestinian State has been rebuffed time and again in favour of castigating and casting out a Jewish presence on land 'consecrated to Islam', yet representing Judaic ancestral land, only a small portion of which is occupied by the State of Israel, a mere sliver in the total geography of the Middle East, as an intolerable affront which must be destroyed. 

 

A two-state solution, a concept originally accepted by Israel, and offered time and again in negotiations which Palestinian leadership turned away time and again, is a purely Western-supported ideal, one which Palestinians have no interest in whatever, holding out for Israel's destruction, and a one-state Palestinian solution. Israel has surrendered its support of that elusive two-state 'solution' to achieve a longed-for peace, when its people will no longer be targets for murder by its neighbours, solidified into a stone etching reflective of the  tablets of the Ten Commandments' 'thou shalt not kill', when to protect its own it must do just that. 

The Pope met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on Thursday Reuters

 

 

 

Forging Trade Ties -- Forgoing Human Rights

"We highly appreciate the proactive stance of the new Canadian government in promoting the improvement and development of bilateral relations."

"Cooperation between the two countries in trade, energy, and cultural exchanges has yielded fruitful results, and has brought tangible benefits to the people of both nations."  

"Looking ahead, China and Canada should translate the important consensus reached by our leaders into concrete actions and work together to steer our relations back to  healthy, stable, and sustainable path." 

Yang Wanming, president, Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign countries 

 

"[While the world is going through] a period of profound global upheaval, an era shaped by shifting geopolitics and economic volatility, within this uncertainty, there is also opportunity."

"This is one of our most consequential trading relations."

"[Canada is committed to working with China] as we look to address trade challenges and advance cooperation to shape a forward-looking economic relationship."

"[We] can help China simultaneously meet its growing energy needs and climate goals."                                                                                                                                     Canadian ambassador to China Jennifer May   

Prime Minister Mark Carney shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the start of a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Oct. 31. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

As the Canadian Liberal government wrestles with the trade and political relations problems the second iteration of a Donald Trump presidency in Washington has brought to the fore, the search for new international trade partners has seen Canada finding it suddenly expedient to warm relations with the People's Republic of China, after an interval of frosty relations. The reasons for which have been many and compelling. Not the least of which, but the most recent as it were, Beijing's interference in Canadian politics during elections.

 

There have been other recent issues; the arrest and detention and imprisonment of two Canadians in China known as the 'two Michaels' (Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor) in 2018, held for several years in extremely rough conditions as purported spies. This was an illustration of Beijing's 'hostage-diplomacy' in retaliation to the arrest of Huawai's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. warrant, for extradition to the U.S. to stand trial on criminal charges. Other Canadians faced charges related to drugs, leading to death sentences. 

 

Chinese cyber threats in Canada, the regime's threats against Chinese Canadians, its infiltration of academia, along with wholesale thefts of sensitive government and private industry initiatives, the most notorious of which was Nortel where former Chinese national employees lifted sensitive internal documents taken to China enabling groups like Huawai to profit from a successful global enterprise whose operations were repeated in China leading to the collapse of the Canadian firm.

Xiangguo Qiu wears a biocontainment suit while working in the containment lab at the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg. Qiu, her biologist husband Keding Cheng, and her students were escorted out of the NML in July 2019. Qiu and Cheng were fired in January 2021. The RCMP is still investigating a possible 'policy breach' reported by the Public Health Agency of Canada. (CBC)

 

Another operation of industrial espionage took place at the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Laboratory linked to the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, when two Chinese nationals employed at the facility, Dr. Xiangguo Oju and Keding Cheng, her husband, illegally sent vials of infectious materials back to China in 2019; they and their Chinese students were escorted out of the lab, on suspicion of stealth of scientific data which ended up at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

 

Relations between Canada and China under Liberal-led governments in Canada have always flourished. Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien led countless trade missions to China, and on his retirement from government working for a prestigious Canadian law firm, became their point man for China through his many high-level government contacts. Under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relations were on-again, off-again, with his government yearning to restore trade relations despite setbacks.

 

The current leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and now current prime minister, Mark Carney, whose business background with Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. has warm, profitable relations with China has now once again reinstated relations with China. Mr. Carney has accepted an invitation by Beijing to visit China at "a mutually convenient time", for the purpose of strengthening bilateral ties; read that trade issues of immense importance to Canada, although for China these are fungible trade issues.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed to tackling ‘irritants’ with Chinese President XI Jinping as the two countries had their first formal leader-to-leader contact since 2017. Carney was also invited by Xi for a state visit.  Still from video/CBC

 

The Canadian embassy in Beijing arranged a reception to mark the 55th anniversary of the founding of diplomatic ties between Canada and China, co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, a state-linked organization. At a meeting last month in the Republic of Korea, the two leaders, Prime Minister Carney and President Xi Jinping congenially agreed to reopen warming talks toward improved relations.

 

That meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju marked the first meeting between Canadian and Chinese leaders since 2017. The leaders "agreed that their meeting marked a turning point in the bilateral relationship", with both leaders directing their officials to work toward resolving outstanding trade issues, primarily seafood, canola and electric vehicles. They spoke as well of clean and conventional energy, climate change, manufacturing and international finance.

Even with strained relations, China is Canada's second-largest trading partner after the United States. China is the second-largest source of imports, second-largest export market. A thaw in relations between the two countries will certainly benefit Canada. In the same token, China's human rights record with respect to the Uyghurs...Canada went so far as to pass a motion in the House of Commons condemning the People's Republic of China for 'genocide' against its Uyghur population.

 

China takes advantage of both Canadian products and expertise, including education, financial services and sustainable infrastructure for clean conventional energy. Beijing is also interested in increasing energy resources such as oil and gas, from Canada. For China, it is Canadian raw materials and its abundance of natural mineral resources that draws its interest. For Canada it is finished products that come from China that form the bulk of its imports.  

"Fifty-five years [since former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau opened Canada up to China] is a milestone that invites us to reflect on our history, what we have achieved together, and how we navigated deeply complex and changing times."

"I want to be very clear that we are here to build this relationship and to build it strong."

Jennifer May, Canadian ambassador to China 

China controls the world's largest reserves of rare earth elements, and now it's tightening its grip. China's export restrictions are giving it powerful leverage over the United States and U.S. President Donald Trump is determined to catch up. Images provided by Getty Images, The Canadian Press and Reuters.

 

"This Is Your October 7"

"Exporting the revolution, giving birth to and exporting terrorist groups is part of the Iranian regime."

"The names [of the groups] are not important. Terror is the most important mission inside and outside Iran, outside is even more important."

"These regimes have to reflect their image, superiority and power, in order to expand. Iranians actually cooperate with Russia and China. They learned it from them."

"Western countries are kind of honest and naive, and in obeying the law and liberal and democratic values, they sometimes fall in that trap of not knowing they help these dictators."

"They use your systems of being honest and good and trying to help the poor, and they abuse it." 

Beni Sabti, terrorism expert, Institute for National Security Studies

Muslims pray outside McGill University's Roddick Gate during pro-Palestinian protest in Montreal Monday October 7, 2024 on the one year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. (John Mahoney / MONTREAL GAZETTE)

 

Born in Iran, Bani Sabti with the Institute for National Security Studies specializes in Iranian culture, influence and media. He knows, intimately, whereof he speaks. And he doubtless views the West and its governments as credulous fools. Anti-Israel supporters of Hamas flaunting their presence in the streets of Canada do not appear to alarm anyone in authority in the country. While they passionately espouse the glories of the religion of peace, he knows that Islam regards itself as the 'place of peace', while regarding non-Islamic countries as 'places of war'. The faithful in Islam are obligated to help transform such places of war into places of peace.

 

Massing to enact mass prayers outside of churches, in front of an Israeli consulate or embassy, they boldly proclaim their mission, but no one appears to be interested in that mission. The open threats against Canada's Jewish population, the 'pro-Palestinian' mobs march in residential areas where Jews are known to live, unison-shouting 'go back to Poland', 'Final Solution', and 'From the river to the sea'. Jews whose residences are nearby are informed by police not to antagonize the mobs. No move is made to remove the threatening processions disturbing the peace and tranquility of residential areas.

 

This is a new Canada that appears to value a conciliatory approach to unlawful, threatening behaviour to any of its citizens, while instructing those same citizens  under fire by malignant forces to lock themselves away in their homes. The police are invested in the safety of all municipal dwellers in areas they serve, and for Jews that safety is to ignore the viral threats surrounding them while police spend their time aiding the malefactors to 'keep the peace'.

 

Beni Sabti was born and raised in the Islamic Republic. Demonstrations and mass street prayers became the norm during the 1978 Iranian Revolution. Islamic students in North America and in Europe took part in those mass street prayers along with those taking place in Iran. Their efforts aided the Islamic Revolution to succeed and the Shah of Iran to be dethroned and exiled along with his family. 

 

British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the University of California, Hamid Algar, described mosques as the principal organizers of the revolution, where "mass prayers, demonstrations and martyrdom were -- until the very last stage -- its principal weapons".  

 

According to a recent Global News report, some 450 individuals involved with Hamas have ties to Canada, either through temporary visas, landed immigration status or studying at Canadian universities. This, in the last decade during the governance of the Liberal party when security clearances were lax, and the government policy was one of open doors, declared so by then-prime minister Justin Trudeau. Thus, immigrants, refugee-class and migrants streamed into Canada to enrich its culture and social life through an Islamist lens.

 

The Palestine Youth Movement held a downtown rally from Yonge and Dundas Sts. to the Israeli Consulate on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, before shutting down the intersection to traffic. Photo by Caryma Sa'd /Special to the Toronto Sun

 

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada ensures that freedom of speech and the right to peaceful gatherings are enabled, rights reflected in any democratic country. It is doubtful that those Charter Rights took into account mass demonstrations against an identifiable minority demographic, where threats against Jews, and support of terrorist groups proscribed by Canada's own laws, and destruction of both public and private property takes place, would be regarded as a civil right. 

 

A mass prayer session that took place directly in front of Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica, many more in the streets, and at times deliberately blocking traffic, all point to the reality that while these demonstrations initially attacked Jews in Canada, the intended and eventual targets are broader and encompass all of society guilty of not having submitted to the religion of peace. 

 

Beni Sabti points out that the passion of faith requires from its adherents more than religious fervor and a commitment to get out in public and loudly and fervently declare its intentions which only they alone are able to adequately interpret as a general threat. Money, he explains, funds terror, and its function complements the sympathy of oblivion that takes place in countries of the West. Where in the past western intellectuals have been sympathetic to Islamic political movements, their numbers have swelled.

 

As willing contributors to the Islamist totalitarian agenda, academics and unions, presumably in support of the 'underdog', have gone out of their way to assist the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Republic of Iran, monied and influential Qatar, and all their dedicated terrorist groups in a jihad comprised of persuasion on the one hand, violence on the other, achieve the goal of Islamist conquest.  

 

Palestinian supporters pray at the encampment on McGill University campus Monday, May 6, 2024 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

 

A mere two weeks following the October 7, 2023 terror attack in southern Israel -- by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, fortified by enthusiastic Palestinian civilians from Gaza, estimated as four thousand-strong in number that launched a deadly rampage of mass murder, torture, rape and hostage-taking -- Montreal imam Adil Charkaoui declaimed before a large anti-Israel gathering for Allah to "kill the enemies of the people of Gaza and to spare none of them". 

"This is your October 7. Closing the door and being safe inside the houses and not knowing what is going on outside and not filming, it's your kibbutz, it's your village."

"Closing the door, and saying, OK, we are safe ... but they come. This is the problem. When you retreat, they come after you. When you give them more space physically, they will come, and they will burn offices, and they will burn churches."

"The masses in the streets, it's not just about praying. It's about conquering your city. It's about conquering the streets. This is something very, very dangerous..."

"Canadians don't know about this culture. That this is what is going on in the Middle East. Those who are in the streets are the winners, they take the regime. This is what happened in Iran, in Syria, in Iraq. Walking is a conquering thing, so Canada has to deal with that."

"It's their state, you are the enemy now. This is what they are telling you. You can't do anything against masses..."

"If Canada does not want to be a victim of the next October 7, it needs to neutralize these mass gatherings."

Beni Sabti 

Imam Adil Charkaoui, speaking Arabic, denounced "Zionist aggressors" and called on Allah to "kill the enemies of the people of Gaza and to spare none of them." Photo X

 

"The Jihadists Are Going To Kill, and Kidnap and Commit Terrorism"

"Actually, some of the most dangerous terrorists that the West ever experienced came from very wealthy Arab oil countries like Saudi Arabia. The only difference [with Gaza] is poverty, and that they are very close [geographically] to the Jews. Like, for example, if Pakistan was close by, jihad would not be limited to the Palestinians."

"Terrorists, jihadists, are worldwide. What we saw, for example, in Syria, remember ISIS? Remember what happened just recently against the Druze in Syria? See what the Houthis are doing. See the barbarism of the Iraqis, for example, during the Shia-Sunni clashes. But of course, there were no headlines. Take Algeria also. I can go on and on. Look at Sudan recently."

"What I'm trying to tell you is that the entire region is ruled by tribalism. This is not only unique for the Palestinians. It's a death culture. They just find in Israel a common enemy, because they are Jews. But practically, if they don't have the Jews to kill, they will kill each other."

"But as of now, I think the vast majority of Gazans, they don't see Israel as a possible peace partner, and they don't recognize Israel. They will want a Palestinian state on the rubble of Israel."                                                                                                                  Mosab Hassan Yousef, eldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder of Hamas 

 

Mosab Hassan Yousef -- whose father co-founded Hamas -- has a new book that details his life in America. Getty Images

Dedicating himself to exposing the reality of Islamist totalitarianism and conquest, the oldest son of one of the founding members of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas which along with Hezbollah, the Houthis and other death-cult groups operates as an offshoot of the Islamic Republic Guard Corps of the Republic of Iran, Mosab Hassan Yousef has his work cut out for him. He has a large following among those who are in the crosshairs of Islamist jihad, and no doubt he is extremely aware that he is considered a traitor and worse by the very communities he was brought up in. He was thoroughly indoctrinated as a child.

 

Born in 1978 in Ramallah, he is aware the world's longest-reigning 'refugees' and their 'victimhood' saga is a parody of reality. At one time fully involved in the ideology of jihad he was in line of inheritance as an  elite leader within Hamas. And then, in late 1997 he began to view matters through the lens of reality, witness to the lethal violence unleashed by Hamas upon any whom they suspected of collaborating with Israel when so-called 'collaborators' (on suspicion; no formal much less informal trial was conducted, no evidence supporting that suspicion) would be hog-tied to the back bumper of vehicles and driven at high speed through the streets of Ramallah as a warning to all Palestinians in Gaza.

 

His conscience and his native intelligence informed him that what he saw and heard and was brought up to believe in -- an unwavering commitment to killing Jews in Israel to free up the land for the 'rightful owners' -- was a troubling perversion of reality and justice. He was recruited by Israel's internal security agency, the Shin Bet, to act as an informant; his code name, 'The Green Prince'. He worked undercover, sabotaging terrorist plans, helping to secure hundreds of lives both of Palestinians and Israelis, for a decade. Even as his father was a leading figure in Hamas.

 

Exile from his past was inevitable. He wrote a memoir, "Son of Hamas", revealing his entire story, in 2010. A later publication, from Hamas to America told of his years as a citizen of the United States, where he converted to Christianity. He has never stopped speaking up, telling the world of the dangers of Islamofascism, and in very particular his intimate knowledge of the victimhood culture of those that identify themselves as Palestinians. As an Arab and a former scion of Islamist jihad, very few have the background and knowledge his narrative describes.

 

The Jewish group Tafsik invited Yousef to speak in Toronto, and on November 19 he addressed the issue of Palestinian flag raisings in Toronto, Calgary and Winnipeg. He spoke of Canadian politicians as "hypocrites looking for votes, supporting chaos and terrorism". Supporters of Hamas and the Palestinians in their regional demonstrations against Israel are "spitting venom, taking advantage of Gaza's tragedy -- using your freedoms to destroy your freedoms". 

 

Islamists, he said, are "savages" immune to negotiation and reason. They perpetuate an "inverted narrative" using projection to accuse Israel of genocide and colonization, while they themselves are the genocidaires and colonists on traditionally Judaic ancestral lands. "The problem with the government of Canada", he stated, "is they have been platforming Palestine. This is the biggest antisemitism out there -- rewarding Palestinians for their violence, then expecting from such a government to actually be fair to the Jews. They are appeasing Muslim voters, and there is going to be consequences...they are part of the problem, not part of the solution". 

 

Photo from X, Mosab Hassan Yousef

 

"The Jihadists are going to be violent, and anyone who would oppose them or offends their religion or criticizes their religion, they are going to kill and kidnap and commit terrorism."

"This is paving the way for a new generation. Right now it's like a cancer; it's a big problem that nobody actually knows how to deal with."

"What we need is to bring the truth to the people. For example, all the allegations of occupation, of genocide, of colonization, of stealing the land from the Palestinians, these are baseless accusations. And they are very serious accusations. We need to shed light on how the Gaza tragedy was the outcome of Hamas weaponizing civilians."

Mosab Hassan  Yousef 

Palestinians -- Victims of their Own Ineradicable Hatred

Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg

 

"The Museum has allowed itself to become the tool, or dupe, of only one side of the story ad thereby betrays its duty as a national institution to provide a common and inclusive meeting and educational space on the matter of human rights."

"I think what you're seeing with the Jewish Heritage Centre is the manifestation of a fundamental breach of trust by the Canadian Museum of Human Rights."

"The factual, historical context of events surrounding the 'Nakba' are not just one story."

"In my father's founding vision of the purpose of the Museum he never had a problem with the telling of the whole story, which includes the displacement and expulsion of over 800,000 Jews who were living in Arab countries and, perhaps most importantly, that a lot of what happened was triggered by the fact that many Arab countries declared war and tried to conquer and eliminate Israel in 1948." 

David Asper, Winnipeg lawyer, businessman, trustee, Asper Foundation 

Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present  opening June 2026, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

 

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has gone the way of all public institutions in Canada -- from the very Liberal-led government itself, to all its constituent arms of public service, from academia to unions, news media and museums throughout the country, to portray Palestinians as victims of a cruel apartheid occupation. Taking their cue from the United Nations which designated Palestinians and their offspring as perpetual refugees, the Palestinian narrative of victimhood has resonated in its pathos everywhere that kind hearts and malevolent sentiments fall victim themselves to an ongoing parody of human rights.

 

Arab Palestinians have from the very moment the United Nations announced its Partition Plan in 1947 refused the offer of a state of their own, just as they refused to acknowledge Israel's inherited ancestral right to accept that offer of two states side by side. With encouragement and incitement from the Arab world in the Middle East that refusal has lasted a lifetime and for generation after generation. Simply put all the countries of the Middle East, Islamic to the core, refused to tolerate the presence of a Jewish state in their midst, ancient and authentic as it is.

 

Bearing in mind that many Palestinians did not leave Israel, preferring to remain to this day where they have full citizenship, voting rights, occupy positions in the judiciary, in Israel's parliament, in the medical and law professions, making up 20 percent of the entire population. Circassians, Druze, Bedouin, Christians, Kurds, B'hai, and other minority groups are part of Israeli citizenry with full and equal rights. In contrast, no Jews are welcome in Palestinian areas of the West Bank or Gaza to the point of death. Palestinian leaders have over the years and continue to refuse to recognize Israel's right of existence.

 

Over the years countless opportunities arose for negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian authorities to reach an agreement for the side-by-side existence of two states; Israeli and Palestinians. While Israel has time and again made conciliatory concessions, the Palestinian side has made no concessions whatever. Instead Palestinian governments have incited their populations to hatred of Jews and Israel, infusing in them a raging will to violence, convinced that only by destroying Israel and taking possession of the entire geography will a Palestinian state be feasible. 

 

None of which makes them legitimate candidates for human rights victimhood to be forever memorialized in a museum whose function is to educate and highlight for the public at large authentic instances of human right abuses and the victims thereof. The new exhibit set to become permanent at the Museum for Human Rights in the spring of the coming year is entitled 'Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present'. Its purpose is to focus on the Palestinian 'experience' during the creation of Israel and the following Arab-Israeli war. 

 

The exhibit is an insult to reality and an assault on historical accuracy.

 

Isha Khan, CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, said the Palestine Uprooted exhibit is still in development and will get the same academic and curatorial rigour as all exhibits. (CBC)

 

As for the estimated 750,000 Arab Palestinians who fled in anticipation of returning once the fledgling Jewish state was pummelled into nothingness by the combined Arab armies that marched to destroy it but failed, they have swelled in numbers to 6 million over the years, with their diaspora settling everywhere in the West engaged in slandering the State of Israel and infecting the minds of the populations wherever they settle against Jews, offering the poisoned chalice of antisemitism everywhere. 

 

And while the UN and popular opinion fixate on the 750,000 Arabs who fled with Israel's 1948 declaration of statehood, the 850,000 Jews that forcibly became refugees from Arab lands at Israel's reappearance are ignored.  

"[When the CIJA learned about the museum's intention to profile the experiences of refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War], we immediately engaged with the Museum's leadership."

"We offered to convene leading experts to help ensure that any exhibit presents a balanced, fact-based, and comprehensive narrative, one that reflects the experiences of all refugees, including the more than 850,000 Jews forcibly displaced from long-established communities across the Middle East and North Africa." 

"As currently framed, the proposed direction will deliver an incomplete and unbalanced narrative, one that omits Jewish refugee experiences entirely and will carry reputational consequences for the Museum."

"To ensure the Museum fulfills its mandate, we have requested information from its leadership about the exhibit's content, framing, objectives, and development process, before any further steps are taken."

"We are actively working with our community and with partner institutions across Canada to demand accountability."

Gustavo Zentner, vice-president, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

 

Unequal Rights of Protest and Counter-Protests in Toronto : Canadian Jews' Right of Assembly vs 'pro-Palestinian' Right to Violent Hate-Mongering

"The organizers and some of the other students had come early. I heard yelling behind me. I turned around and I saw two men charge at me. One of them was wielding a drill bit."

"[The masked individuals were yelling], Death to the IDF. Arrest him. War criminal. Kill him. Get him."

"I was talking about the war, explaining that it is not a genocide. We [the IDF] differentiate between combatants and civilians."

"[Soldiers] have been killed in battle because they spent extra time trying to differentiate between combatants [who mingle among the civilians for protective covering] and civilians. This is our policy."

Jonathen Kartem, Israeli-American Israel Defense Forces reservist

 

"Jonathan is standing there like a superhero, literally blocking them. It was a very chaotic scene."

"They weren't even relenting once the police got there. They were desperate to get in and hurt us. They were there for a purpose."

"There was no opportunity to de-escalate, have a conversation."

"They were hitting the police officers. They were striking the police. They were trying to break through the police barricade."

Shoshanah OFlaherty 

 

"Too often, there is no room for true freedom of expression on university campuses [or apparently in relation to TMU, even off-campus] unless the expression adheres to anti-Israel orthodoxy."

Criminal lawyer Mark Sandler 

IDF veteran Jonathan Karten pushes trespassing protester out of the room

 

 It was an event slated for downtown Toronto on November 5 hosted by Students Supporting Israel who had invited two IDF reservists to address the gathering, explaining the conflict in Gaza and the actions of the Israel Defense Forces. Toronto Metropolitan University, where the Students Supporting Israel are registered had refused them a venue at the last minute, so the event took place off campus. Which didn't stop anti-Israel, Palestine supporters from crashing the event, masked and keffiyeh-clad, shouting their usual invectives.

 

Guest speaker Jonathan Karten was taken aback at the intensity and violence of the invaders. The event was not known to any outside the membership of the hosting group, but somehow pro-Palestinian campus groups became aware and called for action against the private discussion. Before he really knew how to interpret what was happening, Karten found himself surrounded by people dressed in black, their gender and identities obscured. As he attempted to hold the glass door leading to the room where the all-female members of the SSI group were cowering, the glass was shattered and he sustained deep injuries to a forearm.

 

When Karten's partner OFlaherty dialled 911 the first responder seemed oblivious to the seriousness of the call. "This is a very serious, dangerous situation. You need to get people here immediately. This is not a protest, this is a lynching", she told the first responder. One of the female students with SSI was so fearful during the shouting and violence she suffered an epileptic attack (as a result of a chronic condition) and ended up in hospital. Others hid under tables while more protesters attempted to breach the barrier provided by Karten. 

 

When police arrived, in an effort to restore order while being physically attacked by the protesters, five were arrested, charged with forcible entry, unlawful assembly, obstructing a peace officer, and assaulting a peace officer. A sixth person was arrested on November 12, after a search for the individual who had smashed the glass door to the event venue. A search warrant was executed on his residence, and 26-year-old Qabil Ibrahim was charged and arrested for forcible entry, mischief, assault, and unlawful assembly while masked. 

 

IDF veteran Jonathan Karten, one of the scheduled speakers, tries to reason with a protester who sneaked into the venue before the event started

 

 Ibrahim had been previously arrested in April. A video of a protest outside the Israeli Consulate in Toronto showed him climbing onto scaffolding to set an Israeli flag on fire after dousing it with an accelerant. He scurried away from the area, and others were left with the job of putting out the flames. At the November 5 event, after he had smashed the glass door, he swiftly fled the scene there too. Obviously a committed 'protester', but one that having committed physical violence, loses no time in departing the scene of the crime.

 

Police, explained Karten, had been unable to close he main building doors while protesters continued to force their way inside. "So I went down and I helped the two police officers that were trying to close the doors." More officers soon arrived, but those already in position "were all standing around downstairs, inside, when the threat was outside and so were the attackers." Then he suggested that more men were needed outside. "But they didn't seem interested in dispersing the crowd. I think maybe they were waiting for even more men to come before they would be willing to go outside." 

 

Police push out protesters to secure the building

 

 Widespread concern with respect to the way police officers respond to the constant violence targeting Jews in the city for over two years was partially addressed by Clayton Campbell, president of the Toronto Police Association, on a radio show. He spoke of the hard work during difficult circumstances by Toronto police. He went out of his way to ask Jewish Torontonians not to blame the officers. In his view, any blame rests with the chief of police, Myron Demkiw, and other law enforcement and political leaders. 

 

And it is true, the miserably formidable pair of Mayor Olivia Chow and Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, tolerate the violence imposed by pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas protesters on the streets of Toronto.

 

Clearer guidelines and rules for police and demonstrators would go a long way to solving some of the problems seen where no response at all to violent demonstrations simply encourage following events to become even more violent. Toronto police have become notorious for standing by and appearing to protect protesters, while informing Jewish anti-protesters that they must move away because their presence irritates the protesters and has the effect of ramping up the level of antagonism.

Pro-Hamas mobs that march through residential streets where Jews just happen to live are incited and provoked by the presence of Jews, so they are advised to make themselves scarce. Stay in their homes and remain mute and oblivious to the protesters who scream at them to 'go back to Poland', or shout 'Final Solution', else they will be held responsible for any escalation that may occur as a result of their irritating presence that irks the protesters. 

An anti-Israel activist sprays lighter fluid on a burning Israeli flag atop wooden scaffolding during a march in downtown Toronto on Friday, April 4 2025. Qabil Ibrahim, 26, of Toronto faces arson charges Courtesy X/Leviathan

 

"Officers are fearful of making decisions because they'll be blamed for decisions that aren't supported [by police brass."

"[What is needed are clear guidelines and rules for both police officers and demonstrators. Officers are] certainly not going to put themselves into a position where they're only going to be thrown under the bus if the wrong decision is made."

Clayton Campbell, president, Toronto Police Association 

The Sanctimony of a 'Peaceful Resolution' to the Ukraine/Russia Conflict

"Even if Zelenskyy wanted to sign it, he couldn't because there is no political basis for it."

"There are many non-starters there. Clearly this is a pro-Russian deal that was written by Dmitriev and Witkoff."

"It is very similar to the minerals deal. We modified it for three months [before it was signed]. But this deal is between the U.S., Ukraine, Russia and Europe, so I think it will be more like 12 months to negotiate."

"I think this is the beginning of the peace process, not the end."

"It doesn't seem like everyone in the Russian government is interested in this." 

Anonymous insider official

 

"Russia remains committed to the discussions that took place in Anchorage. We are aware of possible modifications and approved wording, but we have not received anything officially."

"There are certain considerations on the American side, but nothing specific is being discussed at the moment. We are completely open and remain open to peace talks."

Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman 

Andriy Yermak (left), heading negotiating talks for Ukraine, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Geneva on Sunday   Reuters

 

There is a palpable threat behind the latest U.S. peace proposal presented to Ukraine. A proposal that was missing a pre-presentation inclusion of the government of Ukraine and of Ukraine's European backers. This proposal reeks of Russian territorial expansionism declaring itself non-negotiable. The Kremlin and Washington appear to have decided to agree between them -- deliberately  sidelining the other involved principals from engagement -- that Russia's demands would predominate and nothing would be accomplished without Kyiv's complete surrender.

 

In fact, the proposal arrived in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's lap along with a threat; sign this capitulation plan under the guise of a 'peace proposal'  by U.S. Thanksgiving or depart empty handed with no prospect whatever for any future assistance of any kind from the U.S. administration. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy was presented to a proposal, a version of the 28-point plan by President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, by U.S. army Secretary Daniel Driscoll.

 

A plan devised in camera between the White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev. A plan replete with red lines for Ukraine; a massive reduction of the size of its military, and ceding territory that Russia had not succeeded in militarily possessing. Ukraine continues to receive U.S. weapons through European partners, and the sharing of intelligence crucial to Ukraine's survival on the battlefield, supplied by the U.S., is now in contention. 

 

Unless Kyiv swiftly signs a proposal, everything could be off the table. Although Zelenskyy requested document changes, and was given the response that some changes could be countenanced, nothing has yet been advanced in that direction. The plan is for both Presidents Zelenskyy and Trump to sign the proposed plan,whereupon it would be presented to the Russian bargaining team. The signing 'timeline', stressed U.S. officials, is 'aggressive'.

 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena after commemorative ceremony for victims of the great famine in Kyiv. Photograph: AP

 

The plan envisages a full withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the fortified Donetsk region in Ukraine's east, granting Russia full territorial control despite that in close to four years of war, Russia was not able to achieve control of the entire territory. "De facto recognition would be granted Russia of control of Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk, along with areas of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia", illegally seized; conflict in these regions to be frozen n the current front line.

 

Ukraine, further, would be forced to alter its constitution to reflect it would never again seek to join the western military alliance of NATO, and at the same time agree to significantly reduce the size of the Ukrainian armed forces from its current 800,000-850,000 personnel to 600,000. As a reward for such sweeping concessions Ukraine would receive "reliable security guarantees", none of which have been outlined. The proposed settlement would also bar presence of any NATO  troops on Ukrainian soil.  

 

So there goes the European proposal for NATO troops meant to deter Russia from attacking again, to be stationed in Ukraine. European officials have balked at not having been included in the drafting of the proposal, signalling concern over the latest peace proposal while warning Ukraine's 'capitulation' is unacceptable, and that its sovereignty must be protected. Ukraine and its European allies have held out for a ceasefire pausing the war at current front lines.

 

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a house destroyed in a Russian strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, late Sunday. (Andrii Marienko/The Associated Press)

 

Ukraine is adamant that it would not cede land not already seized militarily, to Russia, nor that it would ever be prepared to consent to reducing its military force numbers, giving Moscow a territorial-grasp advantage that would inevitably lead to another invasion. Military analysts claim Moscow lacks the military capacity for major gains, despite far outmanning and outgunning the Ukrainian side. Pointing out that sanctions are affecting the Russian budget revenue, forcing tax hikes and spending cuts.

 

With the final settlement of the proposal reintegrating Russia into the global economy, with sanctions lifted "in stages and on a case-by-case basis", included. Should Russia once again attack Ukraine "in addition to a decisive coordinated military response, all global sanctions will be reinstated" and recognition of seized territory revoked, according to the proposal.  

"The effective work of the Russian Armed Forces should convince Zelenskyy and his regime that it is better to negotiate and do so now, better to do so now than later."

"His room for manoeuvre is shrinking as he loses territory to the Russian armed forces' offensive."

"And this is not even about war: it is about forcing Zelenskyy and his regime to seek a peaceful solution to the issue."

Dmitry Peskov 

Jihad: From Lethal Violence to Stealth Persuasion

"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means."

"The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating the destroying the western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

"It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny." 

An Explanatory Memorandum for the Muslim Brotherhood's Goals in North America  

Jihad: Holy or Unholy War?
John L. Esposito
The concept and practice of jihad have been critical in the history of
Islam.1 From the rise of Islam and the creation and expansion of the Muslim
community, jihad has played a central role in Islam. Jihad (exertion or struggle)
is sometimes referred to as the Sixth Pillar of Islam. Throughout history, (as in
other faiths) sacred scripture has been used and abused, interpreted and
misinterpreted, to justify resistance and liberation struggles, extremism and
terrorism, holy and unholy wars.
The importance of jihad is rooted in the Quran’s command to struggle (the
literal meaning of the word jihad) in the path of God and in the example of the
Prophet Muhammad and his early Companions. In its most general meaning,
jihad refers to the obligation incumbent on all Muslims, individuals and the
community, to follow and realize God’s will: to lead a virtuous life and to extend
the Islamic community through preaching, education, example, writing, etc.
Jihad also includes the right, indeed the obligation, to defend Islam and the
community from aggression. Throughout history, the call to jihad has rallied
Muslims to the defense of Islam.
Since the late 20th century, the word jihad has gained remarkable
currency: used by resistance, liberation, and terrorist movements alike to
legitimate their cause and motivate their followers. The Afghan Mujahiddin, the
Taliban and the Northern Alliance, have waged a jihad in Afghanistan against
foreign powers and among themselves; Muslims in Kashmir, Chechnya,
Daghestan and the southern Philippines, Bosnia and Kosovo have fashioned
their struggles as jihads; Hizbollah, HAMAS, and Islamic Jihad Palestine have
characterized war with Israel as a jihad; Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group has
engaged in a jihad of terror against the government there and Osama Bin Laden
and al-Qaeda have waged a global jihad against Muslim governments and the West.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the century-old Egypt-based totalitarian, political, exterminationist leader in Islamist conquest for the universal elevation of Islam and the subjugation of all people on the globe -- to submit to a religion conceived by an Arab businessman in the 7th century Mecca of the Middle East who diligently mined the prophets, holy concepts, and sacred human values of the Hebrew Holy Book to freely lift those precepts and philosophical, historical antecedents to be used in the conceiving of Muhammad's own rendition of a holy scripture, the Koran, which he held to supercede those of two predecessor religions; Judaism and Christianity, as God's 'final word' -- must be recognized for the danger it is.

 

 

Since that inception in 1928 the Muslim Brotherhood has spread its tentacles throughout the world, with countless branches, both those dedicated to violent action -- in the Middle East, Africa and Asia -- and stealth persuasion -- in Western democracies; throughout Europe and the Americas, to use any and all methods between the two extremes to achieve the goal of Islamist domination. Recognizing its threat to their own status as governments, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood. It is past time for the West to catch up.

 

Moderate Muslim-majority countries are under attack by the Muslim Brotherhood's offshoots, just as Western countries are; the methodology differs, as do the techniques, but the end result is the same. Convert or die. Alternately, convert or live under Islam as taxed-and-tolerated inferiors. 

Islam is  now the fastest-growing religion on the globe, likely to overtake Christianity within the next several decades. Where Christianity sees slumping followings, Islam's is expanding. And as it expands it also exports itself everywhere across the world.

 

Through immigration, migration, and refugee claimants, Islam is infiltrating everywhere. Muslims have a tendency to obey Koranic instructions to hold themselves separate from those of other, or no religious affiliations. And since Islam is an entire way of life, subscribed by the strict tenets laid down for Muslims through their holy scriptures, there is no assimilation within another culture, their values, acceptance of a different history, and above all, laws, other than Sharia.

 

Observant Muslims heed their obligation to procreation. Through the scimitar, the Koran and the cradle, Islam grows its ummah unrelentingly, the global presence of Muslims, either in Muslim-majority countries or through the limitless diaspora. And wherever Muslims congregate to become part and apart of an established presence in non-Muslim countries they agitate for Sharia law, arguing that their numbers reaching majority status demands it. 

 

Oddly enough, for a strictly religious people, the incidence of crime among the Muslim population tends to be higher than for other groups. Illegal and criminal activities from human smuggling to trafficking in arms and prohibited substances such as recreational drugs go a long way to funding Islamist terrorism. Tellingly, Islamist groups have become proficient in their use of Western social and cultural concepts of fairness and equality, professing allegiance with social groups they have nothing in common with, and have no regard for, but to use them as helpful supports.

 

Appealing to the human rights due them, Islamists use the guise of victimhood to persuade social progressives abroad that they disproportionately suffer discrimination because of their religion, because of their culture and inherent beliefs, because of their skin colour, because their history is unappreciated, despite that Islam is a religion of peace. That criticism of Islam merely as a result of its proclivity to produce hordes of terrorists plaguing the world community in a violently constant replay of its founder's militancy of persuasion is 'Islamophobic', shaming the timid and the unaware to silence.

 

As the engine of Islamist totalitarianism the Muslim Brotherhood which has succeeded in inserting itself as an honourable representative of Islam throughout the West, with its machinations of its offshoots like    CAIR and its countless 'humanitarian charities' that purport to support the poor and the undertrodden in developing nations while siphoning the funds toward terrorism, it requires governments throughout the world to finally recognize its role in destroying what the Western world represents as democratic unions supporting human rights.

 

 

Forcing Ukraine to Capitulate to the Kremlin's Demands?

"We all know how and why millions of our people died, starved to death, and millions were never born. And we are once again defending ourselves against Russia, which has not changed and is once again bringing death."

“We defended, defend, and will always defend Ukraine. Because only here is our home. And in our home, Russia will definitely not be the master."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Holodomor Memorial Day

 

"[The President] outlined the fundamental principles that matter to our people, and following today's meeting, the parties agreed to work on the plan's provisions in a way that would bring about a just end to the war."

"[President Zelenskyy expects to discuss with Trump] the existing diplomatic opportunities and the key points required to achieve peace."

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's office 

 

"[There would be consultations with Washington] on the possible parameters of a future peace agreement."

"Ukraine approaches this process with a clear understanding of its interests."

"This is another stage of the dialogue that has been ongoing in recent days and is primarily aimed at aligning our vision for the next steps."

Ukrainian national security council secretary Rustem Umerov 

President Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena, at a monument to victims of the Holodomor famine in the 1930s, in Kyiv on Saturday. He has warned his people the Trump peace plan presents Ukraine with an impossible choice. Photograph: AP

Yet another Trump peace plan for the Ukraine/Russia conflict. A proposal that reeks of capitulation to the Kremlin's base and basic demands. The belligerent imposing the rules. The defender treated as a second-class aspirant to protecting its homeland, its people, from a monstrous enemy, the Russia in its imperial mood of owning Ukraine in its totality. And yet another Russian president whose inspiration is the USSR and the lamented lapsed power of the Soviet colossus that gripped its neighbours in a forced net of compliance.

 

Who might have foreseen that Washington would one day value its tenuous relationship with Moscow, disfavouring most of Europe in the process, in a reversal of America's good shepherd tradition, preferring now to an accord with the wolves stalking the sheep. The die was cast when President Donald Trump and his entourage bullied, humiliated, threatened and coerced President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House, forcing him to defend his nation under existential duress while  being lectured and hectored by those he thought were his partners in democracy.

 

Zelensky and Trump in the Oval Office in August. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

 

The U.S. peace plan renewed, is simply renewing previous peace plan proposals, favouring Russia, punishing Ukraine. The defender's valiant response to its neighbour's invasion, costly in human life, in civil infrastructure, in refugees fleeing the horrors of nightly bombardments with the stalwart assistance of its European neighbours dismayed at the new American stance that benefits the aggressor and abandons universal justice is ignored for the courage displayed; instead blame is cast for prolonging the conflict rather than accepting a colossal loss and restoring 'peace'.

 

As far as President Donald Trump may be concerned, a 'weak' country invited a 'strong' country's invasion, and to the victor goes the spoils. Except that victory is far from assured for Russia, and the weak country has held its own and more, given the material and political support of Europe in general, and up until a relatively short while ago, that of the United States. A new, mercurial temperamented, irascible ego has been introduced that bristles at the very thought any of his positions and decisions might be questioned. And woe betide those that do.

 

The provisions of the new 'peace plan' complete with positions Ukraine has opposed. And which country under military invasion would not disagree over a demand to cede  strategically vital territory still under its protective auspices by a fatigued yet resolute military determined to uphold its part in its nation's battle for survival. Another 'provision' geared to completely obliterating any Ukrainian resistance to Russia's grasp of Ukrainian territory: agreeing to significant reductions in the size of its army. 

"We want a just peace that respects everyone's sovereignty, a durable peace that cannot be challenged by future aggression."

"But peace cannot be capitulation. We do not want the capitulation of Ukraine."

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot  

Europe has called for an agreement beginning with a ceasefire along the present line of contact, with negotiations on territory and security guarantees to follow. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the Ukrainian President characterized the proffered plan as no more than Ukraine's 'unconditional capitulation'. A meeting on the weekend between Ukraine's advisers to their president and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff discussed reducing by half the size of the Ukrainian army.

 

Kyiv, in this process would be forced to cede all of the fortified Donetsk region to Russia. Ukraine's use of long-range weapons was to be banned. Foreign troops that Kyiv and its European backers deem critical to ensuring deterrence against Russia attacking once more, also ruled out. And finally, but not least, the recognition of Russian control of territories illegally seized.  

"We commend peace efforts but Europe is the main supporter of Ukraine, and it's of course Europe's security at stake, so we expect to be consulted."

"[Ukraine should not face restrictions on its ability to fight back; it was Russia] whose aggressive potential should be restricted."

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski  

Rescuers work at the site of the apartment building hit by a morning Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Ternopil, Ukraine, in this handout picture released November 19, 2025. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS

"We believe therefore that the draft is a basis which will require additional work. We are ready to engage in order to ensure that a future peace is sustainable. We are clear on the principle that borders must not be changed by force."

"We are also concerned by the proposed limitations on Ukraine's armed forces, which would leave Ukraine vulnerable to future attack."

"The implementation of elements relating to the European Union and relating to NATO would need the consent of EU and NATO members respectively."

Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Germany and Norway 

From left to right: European Council President António Costa, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, France's President Emmanuel Macron and Finland's President Alexander Stubb. BBC