Nurtured in Victimhood and Terrorism

"But even that [Gaza security force from moderate Arab states under a potential Arab Mandate for Gaza], will not work if a broad majority of Palestinians is not willing to unshackle themselves from Hamas's political and ideological grip."

"In that sense, it is not enough for Gazans to revolt against the group for being the prime instigator and perpetuator of the last 18 months of war and misery, a fact the Gazan protesters seem to understand far better than their mindless champions abroad." 

Bret Stephens, The New York Times International Weekly

Palestinians attend a protest against the war and Hamas in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in a rare show of public anger against the militant group that rules the territory. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

The highly unusual sight of large groups of Palestinians in Gaza demonstrating against the oppressive Hamas government, where close to two million civilians are ruled by a terrorist group that is fuelled by hatred of Israel and a long-demonstrated action plan to destroy the Jewish State, feeling fed up enough by the consequences brought upon them when the Israel Defense Forces began their signal military options meant to destroy Hamas which predictably caught the population of Gaza in a vice-grip of Israeli targeted strikes against terrorist operatives deliberately installed for their safety and the population's involuntary martyrdom, has caught the world's attention. 

This needn't have happened. Hamas, dedicated to Israel's utter destruction, has received encouragement and financial backing from its sponsor Iran and from Qatar, along with the humanitarian aid given it in abundance from the United Nations, the European Union, the U.S. and Canada meant to improve the lives of Palestinians in Gaza. That funding in large part has instead gone to funding the actions of Hamas, in building a tunnel network under Gaza for the protection of its operatives, for weapons depots storage, for command posts, for convenience in entering Israel on murder missions.

 

Gaza's hospitals, its schools, its private residences, its huge apartment blocks represent 'safe rooms' for terrorist activities where more command posts, fuel and weapons storage, missiles, entrances and exits to tunnels are all accommodated within crowded civilian areas meant to deter Israeli responses when rockets sent from launch sites installed among these vulnerable areas, create a deliberate hazard for civilians. One they may not relish, but which provides fodder for the Hamas public relations utilization of body counts certain to arouse sympathetic support from an international community prepared to consider Hamas 'freedom fighters' and the Palestinian civilians who support the Hamas mission as 'victims' of Israeli 'aggression'.

 

Perhaps this latest conflict between Israel and Hamas represents the breaking point finally between Hamas and its former Palestinian civilian enthusiastic support of the death-cult mentality and purpose. Palestinians, it appears, are fed up with being unwilling 'martyrs' to the Hamas cause of Israeli extermination. Demonstrators chorus "Out, out, Hamas get out", along with "Hamas are terrorists", displaying banners that read: "Hamas does not represent us". But, in fact, Hamas does represent the Palestinians in Gaza, for they have been complicit and until the present time, willing conspirators and actors in attacking Israel.

 

This demonstrated new bold action in gathering in the streets, demanding Hamas's ouster, marks a departure, however, from the status quo, one which saw great celebration when dead and wounded soldiers, women, children, the elderly and vulnerable were snatched from their homes in southern Israel and taken hostage to Gaza, with Palestinians celebrating in the street at the sight of confused infants and their mothers brought into Gaza to be placed in dank, dark, airless tunnels as valuable prisoners who could be starved, shackled, tortured and murdered.

 

While Palestinians in Gaza marched in defiance of their terrorist masters, and young men among them were taken prisoner, kidnapped, tortured and murdered for daring to challenge the authority and primacy of Hamas, no notice whatever was taken of their courage and their plight by those in the Western world who saw fit to march in support of Hamas 'freedom fighters', for to do so would be to admit their criminality and their own feckless support of terror. The 'pro-Palestinians' do not intend for their commitment to Hamas and its agenda of death for Jews to be nudged aside in the face of reality.

 

Yahya Sinwar, the feared leader of Hamas in Gaza, the man whose October 7, 2023 masterwork of sadistic savagery made him a hunted figure, rose through the Hamas ranks by the sheer force of the terror he represented himself by murdering Palestinians suspected of disloyalty. Domestic surveillance and torture chambers were symbols of his totalitarian governing style in Gaza. Complete with commandeering the humanitarian aid that streamed into Gaza during the Israel Defense Forces' sweep of the Strip to destroy Hamas infrastructure, its command posts, its elite commanders.

 

Palestinians may have found themselves on the short end of food and medicine, but Hamas members had no shortage of any life-sustaining goods, stacked high and kept from the population in Hamas warehouses. Hamas must be destroyed. Its capacity to recruit new members from among the population, its grasp of public relations convincing the international community that it represents a battle of colonialist occupation against Palestinian victims, its manipulation of humanitarian aid, its support by the UN must be countered once and for all.

 

Palestinians, in hating Hamas, still view Israel as their oppressor, as illegally occupying land they claim as their own. They have been nurtured on the concept of 'resistance', on 'Intifada', on Jew-hate and Israel detestation, to blame for their status in life as deprived victims. Not only must Hamas be deprived of any future opportunities to revive its war against Israel, but the Palestinian population itself must guide itself away from terrorism, a viral addiction they have been nurtured on.

 

Palestinians chanting anti-war slogans against Hamas, March 25, 2025.  Stringer/Reuters

 

Isn't That Typically Liberal?!

"Organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas really are trying to stand up for their people and that needs to be recognized."

"These are movements for national liberation, not terrorists."

"[Carney] is the man of the hour that we need, especially to stand up to Donald Trump south of the border."

It's not necessarily saying that I want us to become the next Venezuela or the next Cuba ... I'm just saying that we can learn from how they stress particular rights."

"Essentially we're talking about communities that are trying to defend themselves from these economic systems and the oppression that these economic systems have created."

Edmonton-area Liberal federal election candidate Rod Loyola 

Rod Loyola speaks at a provincial campaign event in Edmonton in 2019. Photo by David Bloom/Postmedia/File

 

It was at an anti-NATO protest that a video was produced of Edmonton's Rod Loyola where the man praised Palestinian terrorist Palestinian groups Hamas and Hezbollah. That video was forwarded on to the Liberal campaign by an investigative reporter with Postmedia's National Post, Rahim Mohamed. Liberal campaign spokesperson Isabella Orzco-Madison responded in an email: "Mr. Loyola is no longer our candidate for Edmonton Gateway."

 

The 2009 video was produced when Loyola who was at the time a rapper with People's Poets when he advocated for honouring, not condemning Hamas and Hezbollah, as courageous groups defending the Palestinians against Israeli occupation and oppression. Mr. Loyola expressed his opinion under the stage name of Rosouljah while performing at Edmonton's Churchill Square for a "Canada out of Afghanistan and say no to NATO" rally on the 60th anniversary of the military alliance.

 

As an NDP member of the Alberta legislative assembly since 2015, Mr. Loyola won nomination for the Liberal representative for the Edmonton riding, announcing his decision to leave provincial politics in favour of joining the Liberal team under its new Leader Mark Carney. His brand of politics, it appears, found sufficient favour to elect him to the provincial legislature. And this, despite that in the past he has been criticized for public support of political strongmen in Latin America.

 

In a 2021 podcast interview he spoke of being unfairly targeted in the legislature for "support for Latin American progressive governments", stating his belief that Cuba and Venezuela were more enlightened in some respects than Canada. This is a man listed as media contact for an Edmonton tribute to Venezuelan socialist leader Chavez after his 2013 death. That Chavez had been accused of gross human rights violations evidently wasn't found persuasive by Mr. Loyola. 

 

Loyola later disclosed in an interview that the Liberal Party was aware of his views on how Israel has treated the Palestinian people when they approached him to run. 

"I gave them full disclosure on my stance on Palestine and that I am a person who is going to fight for the rights of Palestinians always. I fully disclosed that to the party and I had no idea that this video existed. I'm going to continue speaking up for Palestine." Well, of course he will. And he would have under the Liberal banner, since that's their stance, too.

Somehow the acceptance of this man by both the NDP and the Liberals should not be surprising in the least. Both parties' actions, sympathies and reactions to world events appear to explain the attraction of a man with his proclivities and championing choices. He has decided to run as an independent instead of, as planned, a Liberal candidate. He would, after all, still have represented as a Liberal candidate had the party not been challenged in its complacent choice, by the investigative work of a wary journalist.

"A video from 16 years ago surfaced in which I made comments about Hamas and Hezbollah during a hip hop segment introduction at an anti-war rally."

"I did not think that an intro at a hip-hop segment 16 years later would get me ‘cancelled’ after close to a decade of serving as an elected representative at the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, but here we are."

"I unequivocally condemn brutal killings, terrorism, and abduction – whoever does it. What was perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 was completely unacceptable and heart breaking – the loss of innocent life irrespective of race, faith or creed is a loss to humanity. Additionally, the actions take by Israel, as noted by multiple international bodies, amounts to collective punishment upon a people who are already  systematically subjugated, which will never be justified, acceptable or inline with human rights."

"[I will] continue as an Independent in the original riding I intended to run, Edmonton Southeast."

Ousted Liberal Candidate Rod Loyola

Massive Financial Penalties Sought to Disable Al Jazeera

"Under the ATA [U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act], any American institution, organization or company that provides any sort of services to the designated [terror] organization is liable, criminally and civilly for the wrongful acts of the designated organization."

"Al Jazeera provided services to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. They pay Hamas terrorists to serve as their journalists. They're not really journalists, but they give the access to what's going on inside closed doors, inside the Hamas command, inside the Gaza Strip."

"Al Jazeera provides Hamas with tremendous services to spread their propaganda, to disseminate their genocidal narrative, to help them to achieve their goals, which are committing terrorism and destroying the State of Israel."

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Attorney, Lawsuit Leader 

Al Jazeera network is based in Qatar (AFP)

 

A legal battle is  underway for justice on behalf of all those affected by the savage attacks carried out by thousands of Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. American victims of October 7 have filed a lawsuit against Al Jazeera Media Network and its American subsidiary, in the U.S. district court for the District of Columbia.

 

Brought under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act, the lawsuit charges that the news organization based in Qatar provided direct support to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, terror groups designated as such in the United States.

 

According to the plaintiffs, Al Jazeera acted as an accomplice for terrorist propaganda and recruitment. It incited violence through broadcasts, employed people with connections to Hamas and PIJ, paid for interviews with terrorist leaders, and disseminated extremist narratives. According to the lawsuit, responsible for actions that contributed to the planning and execution of the October 7 bloodbath where over 1,200 people were murdered and 250 taken hostage into Gaza. 

 

The Bibas Family

 

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder of Shurat HaDin, an Israeli NGO which takes legal action to combat terrorism, is leading the case. "We were determined to file this case and to get it into court as soon as possible. We wanted to hold accountable all those parties and groups that assisted Hamas in murdering the innocent Bibas family, and also all the victims of October 7."

 

"Ultimately, if we win this case, Al Jazeera will not exist as it does today. They will have to shut down, because the way Al Jazeera is handling their media broadcasts and handling their biased journalism, is literally aiding and abetting terrorism. Wherever they go, whatever they do, they endorse extremist terrorism, not only Hamas but also every other anti-Israel, anti-Western terror organization."

"Its reporters are embedded with all the Palestinian organizations in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. We know that Qatar is the ATM for many terrorist organizations in the world. And therefore, Al Jazeera is the voice of Qatar, supporting them as well, not necessarily monetarily per se, but with the media broadcasts and services, and therefore, if the families win a judgement, every terror victim can bring a similar lawsuit against Al Jazeera."

Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder, Shurat HaDin

Al Jazeera is being sued in the US by a group of October 7 survivors (Image: Getty)