GAZA GENOCIDE!

"Is wartime sexual violence a horrific crime? YES, with no mistake."

"But sex exceptionalism is also traditionally used to whip up support for entire military campaigns."

"We see Israel and the  United States doing this now to justify a prolonged disproportionate air and ground war."

Heidi Matthews, Law Professor, York University 

"There is no actual evidence of these rapes and the babies with their heads cut off -- all these things are pieces of misinformation."

"So I think it shows the strength of the Zionist lobby here in Canada."

Ontario MPP Sara Jama (former NDP)

Hamas terrorists stormed the Nova festival on 7 October and killed hundreds  BBC/Nick Millard

 

There is scant sympathy for the truth in many corridors of Palestinian support among unions, academics, even government officials in Canada. And it doesn't seem to take much to convince people to come out en masse with Palestinian flags -- even some Hamas flags -- and keffiyahs, to protest against the Israel Defense Forces' invasion of Gaza after Hamas terrorists flooded through the border  into Israel on October 7 to surprise towns and kibbutz residents as they woke early Sabbath morning to find themselves in the crosshairs of terrorists.

As they march through the streets, blocking traffic, shouting their defiance of Israel and celebrating the great victory of Hamas -- a listed terrorist group in Canada -- calling for the dismantling of Israel, the gassing of Jews, and labelling Israel a genocidal state intent on destroying the lives of Palestinians, neither local authorities nor provincial or federal government agencies bat an eyelash. Muslims who have established themselves as Canadian citizens, bringing their racist hatred with them from the homelands they've rejected.

Accusations of genocide are flung carelessly about. The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas whose academic dissertation at the Patrice Lamumba University in Moscow questioned the Holocaust, warns the world that Israel is planning a genocide against his people. This is genocide: In 1939 a global population of 16.7 million Jews existed. By 1945 that number was reduced to 11 million. It has taken almost 80 years for the Jewish population to finally reach its 1939 level. 

 

Contrast that with the plight of the Palestinians whom the United Nations has given permanent refugee status to, because no Arab state is willing to absorb those that left Israel in 1948 as refugees, for resettlement as permanent residents with citizenship status. The UN will only surrender their 'refugee' status when they 'return' to the land Israel now sits on, when 'the river to the sea' is accomplished. An estimated 850,000 original refugees has miraculously, despite the threat of genocide, ballooned at the present time to 5.3 million.

 

Accusations of evil Israeli systematic elimination of Palestinians appears to have gone off the rails. While Palestinians in the West Bank (under the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas) and Gaza (under the terrorist group Hamas) have not materially prospered because their leaders have been too engrossed in their plans to destroy Israel and retake what they believe is their entitled land which is in fact ancestral Judaean heritage, adequate state infrastructure has stagnated. Palestinians continue to languish in 'refugee camps' resembling concrete jungles of Soviet-era communal-living high rises.

While the West looks upon Hamas with a degree of tolerance even as a terrorist group, its charter unequivocally calls for the annihilation of the State of Israel and the accompanying destruction of Jewish life. That is genocide. As for the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority (Fatah/PLO/PLFP), their transparent ploy is a call for a two-state 'solution' to solve their victimhood grievances, yet this is not their real agenda, a plan that is simply described as "from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean)". That is genocide.

"The most voluminous evidence is of bodily mutilation of sexual organs by bullet, knife or even scissors, according to an NBC News analysis of the evidence currently available. “They had a thing with sexual organs, both in women and men,” a first responder told police in videotaped testimony."

"A woman whose job it was to open the body bags of women and prepare their bodies for burial told NBC News in an interview Monday that she saw multiple female corpses that had been mutilated. “They were shot in the vagina, they were shot in the breast,” she said. “And this seemed like a systematic attempt at genital mutilation.”

Pictures of victims of the Nova music festival attack are displayed at the site near Kibbutz Re'im and Israel's border with Gaza on Nov. 28.  Spencer Platt / Getty Images

Israel, Unprepared and Vulnerable

"This war will take time. It will be difficult."

"All the places that Hamas hides in, operates from, we will turn them into ruins."

"Get out of there now."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

"[The U.S.] stands with the people of Israel in the face of these terrorist assaults. Israel has the right to defend itself and its people, full stop."

"There's never a justification for terrorist attacks and my administration's support for Israel's security is rock solid and unwavering."

"This is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage. The world is watching."

U.S. President Joe Biden

Israeli police officers evacuate a family from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

 

Hamas terrorists stormed out of Gaza into nearby Israel towns, just over the border, backed by a surprise barrage of rockets. They wantonly killed hundreds of people, abducting many others. This is the second time in Israel's history that an enemy bent on its destruction used the occasion of a major Jewish holiday to launch a deadly attack. Israeli intelligence is aware that the country is always on the brink of an attack, a generalized perception born of experience. Yet it had no advance warning, not a scintilla of a suspicion that a well-coordinated, long-planned attack was immediately imminent.

And the result was butchery on a grand scale, as residents of border towns and soldiers at military posts were surprised and overwhelmed by hordes of terrorists brandishing automatic rifles and shooting to kill. Killing people in the streets, in their homes, in their cars, and ushering others to waiting vehicles to drive them to Gaza as hostages. The elderly were murdered and so were their grandchildren. Women and girls were raped and tortured and many taken hostage as sex slaves.

Children still in their infancy were separated from their parents and in Gaza were harassed and bullied by older Palestinian children. The confused and frightened babies were placed in stacked animal cages. Hamas's media groups videoed all manner of scenes of gross abuse of Israelis, young and old. Filming streets piled with  the dead. Filming girls and women who had been raped shoved into waiting cars. Filming elderly Jews being directed to hold weapons as they were forced to pose. Filming the bloody battering of people to death in ghastly footage.

And filming the beheading of Israeli soldiers. Since an estimated 100 people, both military and civilian were abducted to be used as prisoner-exchange collateral, it seems that some among them were expendable for entertainment purposes to be tortured and mutilated and slaughtered. Women gang-raped and butchered, their bodies mutilated. Reminiscent of the publicity exploits of Islamic State when that Islamo-terrorist group terrified the world in cruel barbarism.

 

Palestinians transport a captured Israeli civilian, center, from Kibbutz Kfar Azza into the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

 

Some 22 locations just outside the Gaza Strip across the border in Israel; towns and other communities were assaulted by Hamas terrorists up to 24 kilometers from the border. The while, Israel's military desperately scrambled to respond. Well after nightfall on Saturday the gun battles between the IDF and Hamas continued. In two towns the terrorists held hostages in standoffs with the military. In another town a police station was occupied, taking until Sunday morning for the building to be reclaimed.

Palestinians transport a captured Israeli civilian from Kibbutz Kfar Azza into the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

 

Thousands of Israelis were wounded, and the last count of the dead stood at 700 and rising. Despite return bombing by the IDF in Gaza, fewer Palestinians died in the heat of the conflict. In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes intensified after nightfall with giant explosions taking down buildings including Hamas offices in central Gaza City. As is the IDF's habit, warnings to evacuate buildings went out before their destruction. 

 

A ball of fire and smoke rise from an explosion on a Palestinian apartment tower following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas terrorists infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

 

A rocket barrage into Israel hit four cities, including Tel Aviv and a suburb nearby. Hamas fired over 5,000 rockets. Terrorists made use of explosives to break through the border fence separating Gaza from Israel, enabling the terrorists to cross into Israel with motorcycles, pickup trucks, paragliders and coastal speed boats. In some Israeli towns, bodies lay wherever people had encountered the swiftly advancing terrorists. Clusters of dead lay at bus shelters.

A video was released showing hundreds of terrified young men and women fleeing for their lives from a rave where they were listening to music and dancing until Hamas terrorists entered the area and began firing. Dozens of young Israelis were instantly killed. Photos by Associated Press show an elderly woman brought into Gaze on a golf cart by Hamas terrorists; another woman squeezed between two others on a motorcycle. AP journalists watched as four people were abducted from a kibbutz, including two women.

In Gaza, a jeep rear door opened and a young Israeli woman stumbled out bleeding from her head, her hands tied behind her back while a terrorist waving a gun grabbed her by the hair and shoved her into the back seat. Workers from Thailand and the Philippines were among the captives taken by the terrorists. The expectation is that a ground assault will be launched into Gaza. An eventuality that the Hamas terror is anticipating. 

The greater the civilian casualties in Gaza among the civilian population, the more publicity for Hamas claiming brutality and intention to murder innocent Palestinians on the part of Israel. Claims that have never yet failed them in arousing indignation among sympathizers to the Palestinian 'cause' who believe the PA and Hamas's messages of Israeli brutality against simple Palestinians who want nothing better than to live their lives in peace and harmony with their neighbours.

An aerial view shows vehicles on fire as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon. Ilan Rosenberg/Reuters