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Yep. Since its creation in December 1987, Hamas has invoked militant interpretations of Islam to spearhead a Sunni extremist movement committed to destroying Israel.
Hamas distanced itself from the longstanding Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)—an umbrella organization for disparate Palestinian factions that ranged from Marxist to secular nationalists—by propagating resistance in the religious context of jihad, or a holy struggle and martyrdom. “Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes,” Hamas said in its first statement in the late 1980s.
Predominantly Shiite Iran has armed, trained and funded Hamas since the late 1980s largely due to its opposition to Israel and Islamic ideology.
The Palestinian people being irrelevant to the broader Islamic Ummah follows a policy of irredentism, that goes something like this: Once a piece of land (and its inhabitants) comes under the rule of a legitimate Muslim authority, it forever becomes an inalienable part of the Dar al-Islām. If even one acre of the Dar al-Islām becomes conquered and ruled by a non-Muslim authority, the Ummah has an obligation to restore legitimate Muslim rule there, regardless of the wishes of the local inhabitants, and regardless of the cost in time, money, and lives.
“It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror.”
Ummah - Wikipedia
Here’s a global map showing all the nations with a majority Jewish population highlighted:
Opinion | Jordan ‘ready to intercept’ rockets from Iran and Houthis — Sky News Australia
Former British commander Richard Kemp believes Jordan is “ready to intercept” Iranian rockets launched from Iran or from the Houthis in Yemen.
It doesn’t matter if Israel is controlled by Egypt or Jordan or Syria or Lebanon (now that Lebanon is predominantly Muslim) or Iran or even a Palestinian nation or a combination of all or any of the above, as long as it’s not what it currently is to the Ummah. This is what makes the “two-state solution” unworkable based on any borders from any time frame for the Ummah.
Many Middle Eastern states are caught between what’s in their best interests as nations & for their citizens, and this Ummah concept of irredentist philosophy. This is what’s dooming the peace process and any normalization of relations with non-Muslim predominant Israel.
Israel–United Arab Emirates normalization agreement - Wikipedia
Once Israel is gone, the Ummah can direct their focus elsewhere. The Muslims conquered most of Spain and Portugal and by 720 Spain was largely under Muslim (or Moorish, as it was called) control. India was once a majority Muslim ruled country — the Mughals ruled over all of India except the extreme south and the north east. This was at its peak in 1707. Just say’n…
BBC - Religions - Islam: Muslim Spain (711-1492)
Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. It brought a degree of civilisation to Europe that matched the heights of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance.
Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia
Canada, the ride of anti-Semitism and the war against Jews
Author of the article:Jerry Grafstein, Special to Toronto Sun
Published Sep 20, 2024 • 6 minute read
The roots of anti-Semitism in Canada are deep, tangled and growing. Nowhere in western democracies has the rise been so swift, obvious and evident.
B’Nai Brith’s annual report tracking anti-Semitic incidents across Canada with impeccable statistics prove the point. Toronto Police statistics also confirm this fact. There are more per capita hate incidents against Jews and Jewish institutions than all other minority groups in Canada together. Per capita, the anti-Semitic incidents in Canada is highest in the western world. Toronto leads the world in per capita anti-Semitic incidents.
The cancer of anti-Semitism, like a pandemic, is evident in public unions, amongst many teachers, at all levels of schooling, especially universities, and amongst administrators at all federal and provincial and municipal levels of government. Using the term “university” to describe egregious institutions of higher learning may be misleading advertising.
Obviously, Canadian union leaders have no historic memory. Have they forgotten politicians like David Croll, a Jewish mayor of Windsor then minister of public works and municipal affairs in Ontario who decided to resign and said during an auto strike in the 1930s that he would rather walk with the workers than drive with General Motors. Or union leaders like Kalman Kaplansky, NDP leader David Lewis, or Louis B Fine, a deputy minister in Ontario in the 1950s who led Canada in implementing hours for work and other workers rights. And where are public union leaders and members who breach their own bylaws when they discriminate against Jewish workers?
There was recent outrage by the federal food inspection agency that outlawed kosher meat. A federal court injunction was granted to slow down this incredible regulatory act of lawlessness. Not so with halal meat.
Recent and regular vandalization and burning of synagogues and Jewish schools was met with mostly silence from most government leaders and from most leaders of other faiths.
Some years ago a well documented report on systemic anti-Semitism at University of Toronto Medical School was released. To this day no reported changes were made – no egregious faculty members or administrators were dismissed. None. The medical school has neglected their three operating principles – the Doctors’ Hippocratic Oath, the University of Toronto rules of ethical conduct and the systemic failures to uphold the rights and freedoms under Canada’s constitution.
A recent egregious NDP motion in Parliament condemning only Israel was met with a loud, standing ovation by all but a few members of Parliament.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow refused to attend a long established Israeli flag raising ceremony. Chow seems to believe she is mayor of only some of Toronto’s people. Obviously she chose to forget that Nathan Phillips Square where her office is located is named after the first Jewish mayor who prided himself as being “the mayor of all the people.” Chow obviously was not aware that the third largest gay pride parade in the world is in Tel Aviv. Nowhere else in the Middle East or even countries like Turkey. Why else would she choose not to attend a tradition of raising the Israeli flag yet days later attend the Gay Pride flag raising?
But Mayor Chow can redeem herself. The police are overworked, underfunded and have done a good job investigating anti-Semitic incidents. Certainly not the top of their agenda, with Toronto flooded with crime. She could set up a special unit as police have done for drugs, gangs and car thefts, dedicated to solely prosecuting egregious anti-Semites.
The University of Toronto recently signed an “amnesty” agreement with protestors who spewed vitriol and manifested aggressive conduct, surely if not an act of obstruction of justice, an action contrary to all their own rules of conduct. No doubt this agreement will only invite further egregious conduct on the campus in the future.
Are some universities across Canada have now quietly instituting de facto “quotas” against Jewish students?
The Liberal caucus in Ottawa has isolated some Jewish members and their few supporters. The NDP with no exceptions have broken with their revered founder Tommy Douglas who was a fervent supporter of Israel. The Green Party expelled its first black and Jewish leader contrary to its own rules.
Perhaps, like others, the Minister of Transport has forgotten what triggered a tax on each traveller across the globe after 9/11.
Recently a six-year Jewish student luckily accompanied by her father was attacked on a school bus in British Columbia only because she was Jewish. Not a word from any in authority.
Why are church or other leaders silent? Silence is complicity. When a synagogue in a small town in France was firebombed, President Emmanuel Macron immediately declared that “any attack on a synagogue is an attack on France.” The French Prime Minister, when a Jewish student was recently attacked, declared “any attack on a Jewish student is an attack on France.”
Since 9/11, there are security measures in every synagogue across Canada to protect its members. My own synagogue, Beth Tzedec Congregation, the largest in Canada, requires that members go through a guarded backdoor. Not so for Timothy Eaton Church just a kilometre or so away in mid-Toronto. Or the steadfast critic of Israel, the United Church.
Where is the Black community, itself subject to systemic racism in the federal public service? It was a Jewish hotel owner in Toronto that opened its rooms to Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, Louis Armstrong and other Black entertainers when other hotel doors were closed in Toronto in the 1950s.
And the CBC is regularly in breach of its mandate by its biased coverage of the Hamas-incited war in Israel. Follow Honest Reporting on this issue.
Another Canadian scandal is the attack on the Giller Prize for novelists by writers who have caused Scotiabank to withdraw its public sponsorship. The litany of bias continues amongst writers. The late Ms. Giller was a staunch supporter of Israel. Support for Salman Rushdie was voracious by writers who forgot who savagely attacked him for his novels and attacked twice for his views. And who were his attackers? All writers know.
But what can be done?
Arif Virani, the erudite federal justice minister, can fulfill his sworn duty to uphold the law. He can immediately call together joint strike forces of RCMP intelligence agencies and provincial police forces as rapid response teams in each province to prosecute these egregious breakers of the criminal code, just as the federal government did during the Emergency Act crisis – an emergency that was not nationwide. The activist Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc, at the next federal-provincial meeting, could persuade the premiers to have their police forces join these joint strike forces to prosecute relevant egregious protestors in each province.
The war against Jews now rages across Canada nationwide. Every synagogue and Jewish institution recently received threatening messages. The enforcement of the criminal code – the one great barrier to criminal behaviour protecting Jews and others – should be strenuously prosecuted. Surely Canada is not a democracy if it allows anti-Semitic hate to become normalized. And it could prosecute those who call for breaches to the Canada-Israel Free Trade or Investment Agreements, both now federal laws, and bring it to public attention. Perhaps a non-partisan task force could quickly probe this issue headed by a bipartisan trio of respected public figures such as Bob Rae (who probed the Indian Air affair), Jason Kenny and Tom Mulcair.
Jews ask why is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms under the Canadian Constitution not vigorously enforced? A democracy is not a democracy unless it upholds the rule of law equally for all.
A democracy is defined by its equal treatment of all its citizens under the rule of law. O Canada, does it no longer stand on guard for all?
— Jerry Grafstein is a former Liberal Senator and the author of a number of books including “A Leader Must Be A Leader – Encounters with Eleven Prime Ministers”. His most recent book is “The Fractured 20th Century”.
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Author of the article:Jerry Grafstein, Special to Toronto Sun
Published Sep 20, 2024 • 6 minute read
The roots of anti-Semitism in Canada are deep, tangled and growing. Nowhere in western democracies has the rise been so swift, obvious and evident.
B’Nai Brith’s annual report tracking anti-Semitic incidents across Canada with impeccable statistics prove the point. Toronto Police statistics also confirm this fact. There are more per capita hate incidents against Jews and Jewish institutions than all other minority groups in Canada together. Per capita, the anti-Semitic incidents in Canada is highest in the western world. Toronto leads the world in per capita anti-Semitic incidents.
The cancer of anti-Semitism, like a pandemic, is evident in public unions, amongst many teachers, at all levels of schooling, especially universities, and amongst administrators at all federal and provincial and municipal levels of government. Using the term “university” to describe egregious institutions of higher learning may be misleading advertising.
Obviously, Canadian union leaders have no historic memory. Have they forgotten politicians like David Croll, a Jewish mayor of Windsor then minister of public works and municipal affairs in Ontario who decided to resign and said during an auto strike in the 1930s that he would rather walk with the workers than drive with General Motors. Or union leaders like Kalman Kaplansky, NDP leader David Lewis, or Louis B Fine, a deputy minister in Ontario in the 1950s who led Canada in implementing hours for work and other workers rights. And where are public union leaders and members who breach their own bylaws when they discriminate against Jewish workers?
There was recent outrage by the federal food inspection agency that outlawed kosher meat. A federal court injunction was granted to slow down this incredible regulatory act of lawlessness. Not so with halal meat.
Recent and regular vandalization and burning of synagogues and Jewish schools was met with mostly silence from most government leaders and from most leaders of other faiths.
Some years ago a well documented report on systemic anti-Semitism at University of Toronto Medical School was released. To this day no reported changes were made – no egregious faculty members or administrators were dismissed. None. The medical school has neglected their three operating principles – the Doctors’ Hippocratic Oath, the University of Toronto rules of ethical conduct and the systemic failures to uphold the rights and freedoms under Canada’s constitution.
A recent egregious NDP motion in Parliament condemning only Israel was met with a loud, standing ovation by all but a few members of Parliament.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow refused to attend a long established Israeli flag raising ceremony. Chow seems to believe she is mayor of only some of Toronto’s people. Obviously she chose to forget that Nathan Phillips Square where her office is located is named after the first Jewish mayor who prided himself as being “the mayor of all the people.” Chow obviously was not aware that the third largest gay pride parade in the world is in Tel Aviv. Nowhere else in the Middle East or even countries like Turkey. Why else would she choose not to attend a tradition of raising the Israeli flag yet days later attend the Gay Pride flag raising?
But Mayor Chow can redeem herself. The police are overworked, underfunded and have done a good job investigating anti-Semitic incidents. Certainly not the top of their agenda, with Toronto flooded with crime. She could set up a special unit as police have done for drugs, gangs and car thefts, dedicated to solely prosecuting egregious anti-Semites.
The University of Toronto recently signed an “amnesty” agreement with protestors who spewed vitriol and manifested aggressive conduct, surely if not an act of obstruction of justice, an action contrary to all their own rules of conduct. No doubt this agreement will only invite further egregious conduct on the campus in the future.
Are some universities across Canada have now quietly instituting de facto “quotas” against Jewish students?
The Liberal caucus in Ottawa has isolated some Jewish members and their few supporters. The NDP with no exceptions have broken with their revered founder Tommy Douglas who was a fervent supporter of Israel. The Green Party expelled its first black and Jewish leader contrary to its own rules.
Perhaps, like others, the Minister of Transport has forgotten what triggered a tax on each traveller across the globe after 9/11.
Recently a six-year Jewish student luckily accompanied by her father was attacked on a school bus in British Columbia only because she was Jewish. Not a word from any in authority.
Why are church or other leaders silent? Silence is complicity. When a synagogue in a small town in France was firebombed, President Emmanuel Macron immediately declared that “any attack on a synagogue is an attack on France.” The French Prime Minister, when a Jewish student was recently attacked, declared “any attack on a Jewish student is an attack on France.”
Since 9/11, there are security measures in every synagogue across Canada to protect its members. My own synagogue, Beth Tzedec Congregation, the largest in Canada, requires that members go through a guarded backdoor. Not so for Timothy Eaton Church just a kilometre or so away in mid-Toronto. Or the steadfast critic of Israel, the United Church.
Where is the Black community, itself subject to systemic racism in the federal public service? It was a Jewish hotel owner in Toronto that opened its rooms to Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, Louis Armstrong and other Black entertainers when other hotel doors were closed in Toronto in the 1950s.
And the CBC is regularly in breach of its mandate by its biased coverage of the Hamas-incited war in Israel. Follow Honest Reporting on this issue.
Another Canadian scandal is the attack on the Giller Prize for novelists by writers who have caused Scotiabank to withdraw its public sponsorship. The litany of bias continues amongst writers. The late Ms. Giller was a staunch supporter of Israel. Support for Salman Rushdie was voracious by writers who forgot who savagely attacked him for his novels and attacked twice for his views. And who were his attackers? All writers know.
But what can be done?
Arif Virani, the erudite federal justice minister, can fulfill his sworn duty to uphold the law. He can immediately call together joint strike forces of RCMP intelligence agencies and provincial police forces as rapid response teams in each province to prosecute these egregious breakers of the criminal code, just as the federal government did during the Emergency Act crisis – an emergency that was not nationwide. The activist Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc, at the next federal-provincial meeting, could persuade the premiers to have their police forces join these joint strike forces to prosecute relevant egregious protestors in each province.
The war against Jews now rages across Canada nationwide. Every synagogue and Jewish institution recently received threatening messages. The enforcement of the criminal code – the one great barrier to criminal behaviour protecting Jews and others – should be strenuously prosecuted. Surely Canada is not a democracy if it allows anti-Semitic hate to become normalized. And it could prosecute those who call for breaches to the Canada-Israel Free Trade or Investment Agreements, both now federal laws, and bring it to public attention. Perhaps a non-partisan task force could quickly probe this issue headed by a bipartisan trio of respected public figures such as Bob Rae (who probed the Indian Air affair), Jason Kenny and Tom Mulcair.
Jews ask why is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms under the Canadian Constitution not vigorously enforced? A democracy is not a democracy unless it upholds the rule of law equally for all.
A democracy is defined by its equal treatment of all its citizens under the rule of law. O Canada, does it no longer stand on guard for all?
— Jerry Grafstein is a former Liberal Senator and the author of a number of books including “A Leader Must Be A Leader – Encounters with Eleven Prime Ministers”. His most recent book is “The Fractured 20th Century”.
GRAFSTEIN: Canada, the ride of anti-Semitism and the war against Jews
The roots of anti-Semitism in Canada are deep, tangled and growing.
That is a sad fact. There are Jew haters everywhere. The Canadian government is over run with them.
Canada announces $151 million for polio eradication, after outbreak in Gaza Strip
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Dylan Robertson
Published Sep 20, 2024 • 1 minute read
OTTAWA — Canada is setting aside $151 million for the fight to eradicate polio worldwide.
International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the news at a Rotary International conference in Toronto.
The funding comes a month after Palestinian officials announced the first cases of polio in 25 years in the Gaza Strip.
The funding will support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which provides vaccines to children worldwide, including more than a half-million kids in Gaza.
Hussen’s office says the cash should help “the most vulnerable populations” such as girls in conflict situations where there is limited health-care access.
The World Health Organization says the world is on the verge of eradicating polio, with a 99 per cent drop in cases since 1988.
Over the last 24 years, various Canadian governments have spent $1 billion on the effort.
“Together, we will end polio and build a healthier future for children everywhere,” Hussen wrote in a statement.
There is no cure for polio, which can cause paralysis that tends to be permanent, including to the muscles used to breathe.
Still, vaccination campaigns have come under strain as humanitarian crises and the COVID-19 pandemic divert resources and make it harder to inoculate children.
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Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Dylan Robertson
Published Sep 20, 2024 • 1 minute read
OTTAWA — Canada is setting aside $151 million for the fight to eradicate polio worldwide.
International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the news at a Rotary International conference in Toronto.
The funding comes a month after Palestinian officials announced the first cases of polio in 25 years in the Gaza Strip.
The funding will support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which provides vaccines to children worldwide, including more than a half-million kids in Gaza.
Hussen’s office says the cash should help “the most vulnerable populations” such as girls in conflict situations where there is limited health-care access.
The World Health Organization says the world is on the verge of eradicating polio, with a 99 per cent drop in cases since 1988.
Over the last 24 years, various Canadian governments have spent $1 billion on the effort.
“Together, we will end polio and build a healthier future for children everywhere,” Hussen wrote in a statement.
There is no cure for polio, which can cause paralysis that tends to be permanent, including to the muscles used to breathe.
Still, vaccination campaigns have come under strain as humanitarian crises and the COVID-19 pandemic divert resources and make it harder to inoculate children.
Canada announces $151 million for polio eradication, after outbreak in Gaza Strip
Canada is setting aside $151 million for the fight to eradicate polio worldwide.
Always amazes me how much money we have to throw at third world shitholes, but can't look after our veterans, can't supply insulin for diabetics in Canada, can't ensure our elderly are properly housed and fed........Canada announces $151 million for polio eradication, after outbreak in Gaza Strip
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Dylan Robertson
Published Sep 20, 2024 • 1 minute read
OTTAWA — Canada is setting aside $151 million for the fight to eradicate polio worldwide.
International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the news at a Rotary International conference in Toronto.
The funding comes a month after Palestinian officials announced the first cases of polio in 25 years in the Gaza Strip.
The funding will support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which provides vaccines to children worldwide, including more than a half-million kids in Gaza.
Hussen’s office says the cash should help “the most vulnerable populations” such as girls in conflict situations where there is limited health-care access.
The World Health Organization says the world is on the verge of eradicating polio, with a 99 per cent drop in cases since 1988.
Over the last 24 years, various Canadian governments have spent $1 billion on the effort.
“Together, we will end polio and build a healthier future for children everywhere,” Hussen wrote in a statement.
There is no cure for polio, which can cause paralysis that tends to be permanent, including to the muscles used to breathe.
Still, vaccination campaigns have come under strain as humanitarian crises and the COVID-19 pandemic divert resources and make it harder to inoculate children.
Canada announces $151 million for polio eradication, after outbreak in Gaza Strip
Canada is setting aside $151 million for the fight to eradicate polio worldwide.
Time to get terror-group terminology right
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Sep 21, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
Hezbollah is a terrorist entity.
It is designated as a terrorist entity by Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the U.A.E. and many other countries. Its members are called terrorists because they meet the literal definition of that word: they use violence against civilians to achieve their political goal.
Which, according to their 1985 Charter, is a “struggle (that) will end only when this entity (Israel) is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no ceasefire, and no peace agreements.”
Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets into Israel since Oct. 7, 2023. Their near-daily barrages have forced 60,000 civilians from their homes in Israel’s North. In July, one of their rockets slammed into a soccer field near the Golan Heights and killed 12 children. The children were not Jews. They were Israeli-Arabs.
So, Hezbollah is a terror group. They kill civilians. For most of the past year, their rocket attacks on Israel have been routinely ignored or downplayed by the Western media.
This week, Hezbollah was back in the news because of the exploding pagers story. Mid-afternoon on Tuesday, thousands of handheld pagers used by Hezbollah exploded, simultaneously. Hundreds of terrorists were wounded, only a handful were killed. The next day, some Hezbollah walkie-talkies exploded, too.
Israel almost certainly concocted the pager and walkie-talkie operations, but they’re not saying so publicly. Notwithstanding that, the explosions have captivated the world, this week, because they read like something out of a James Bond movie.
The Western media and some Western nations, however, have reacted to the pagers operation like it was Nazi Germany stormtroopers invading Poland. They have regarded it as a declaration of war — even though Hezbollah has been in a perpetual state of war with Israel since 1985 (see Charter, above).
Canada’s witless, clueless, Hezbollah-and-Hamas-coddling Minister of Global Affairs, Melanie Joly, this week said she would block any arms shipments going to Israel. Even ones originating in the United States. Meanwhile, she instructed Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations to abstain — and not oppose — a General Assembly vote calling Israel’s war against Hamas “unlawful.”
The United Nations erstwhile human rights chief, who condemns Israel for a living, is Volker Türk. Türk said the pager operation struck “the fear and terror unleashed (that) is profound.” Because, you know, the Jews.
The Western media were just as bad. “Israel declares a new phase of war,” the headline on a CTV news story — not editorial — read. CBC found an expert to say that Israel had violated “international law.” The Toronto Star thought it was important to quote Hamas — another listed terrorist entity — who naturally condemned the attack on “our brothers in Hezbollah.”
And so on, and so on. Some Western media reacted to the pagers story in the way that they always do: unfairly and inaccurately.
Take, for example, the way in which many media describe Hezbollah and Hamas.
The BBC has called terrorists “activists.” Associated Press: “Assailants” and “underground.” Washington Post: “Assassins.” CNN: “Attackers.” Los Angeles Times: “Captors.” Orlando Sentinel: “Combatants.” Philadelphia Inquirer: “Commandos.” Orange County Register: “Dissidents.” New York Times: “Fighters.” The Guardian: “Freedom Fighters.” The Sunday Times: “Fugitives.” The Christian Science Monitor: “Guerillas.”
Newsweek: “Insurgents” and “radicals.” USA Today: “Martyrs.” Time: “Militants.” Chicago Tribune: “Nationalists.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Perpetrators.” Fox News: “Protesters.” Seattle Times: “Rebels.” San Diego Union-Tribune: “Resistance fighters.” Publishers Weekly: “Revolutionaries.” Newsday: “Vigilantes.” The New Yorker: “Warriors.”
We could go on, but there is not enough room. Suffice to say that, when terror groups commit acts of terror on Western soil, the media get the nomenclature right. Not when the target is Jews, however.
So, to cite just one example: in one month, March 2001, CNN reported on two different bomb attacks — one by an Irish Republican group, another by a Palestinian. The latter was called a “militant” when he set off a bomb in a taxi. The former were called “a terror group” for detonating a bomb outside the BBC’s main office in London. Get it? Same news organization, same month; two bombs, two attempts to kill. Yet very different words get used.
And that — as in the pagers story, as in just about every other story that emanates from the Middle East, going back decades — is the problem: Israel always, always gets held to a different standard.
Meanwhile, the terrorists get away with murder.
Figuratively, and literally.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Sep 21, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
Hezbollah is a terrorist entity.
It is designated as a terrorist entity by Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the U.A.E. and many other countries. Its members are called terrorists because they meet the literal definition of that word: they use violence against civilians to achieve their political goal.
Which, according to their 1985 Charter, is a “struggle (that) will end only when this entity (Israel) is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no ceasefire, and no peace agreements.”
Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets into Israel since Oct. 7, 2023. Their near-daily barrages have forced 60,000 civilians from their homes in Israel’s North. In July, one of their rockets slammed into a soccer field near the Golan Heights and killed 12 children. The children were not Jews. They were Israeli-Arabs.
So, Hezbollah is a terror group. They kill civilians. For most of the past year, their rocket attacks on Israel have been routinely ignored or downplayed by the Western media.
This week, Hezbollah was back in the news because of the exploding pagers story. Mid-afternoon on Tuesday, thousands of handheld pagers used by Hezbollah exploded, simultaneously. Hundreds of terrorists were wounded, only a handful were killed. The next day, some Hezbollah walkie-talkies exploded, too.
Israel almost certainly concocted the pager and walkie-talkie operations, but they’re not saying so publicly. Notwithstanding that, the explosions have captivated the world, this week, because they read like something out of a James Bond movie.
The Western media and some Western nations, however, have reacted to the pagers operation like it was Nazi Germany stormtroopers invading Poland. They have regarded it as a declaration of war — even though Hezbollah has been in a perpetual state of war with Israel since 1985 (see Charter, above).
Canada’s witless, clueless, Hezbollah-and-Hamas-coddling Minister of Global Affairs, Melanie Joly, this week said she would block any arms shipments going to Israel. Even ones originating in the United States. Meanwhile, she instructed Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations to abstain — and not oppose — a General Assembly vote calling Israel’s war against Hamas “unlawful.”
The United Nations erstwhile human rights chief, who condemns Israel for a living, is Volker Türk. Türk said the pager operation struck “the fear and terror unleashed (that) is profound.” Because, you know, the Jews.
The Western media were just as bad. “Israel declares a new phase of war,” the headline on a CTV news story — not editorial — read. CBC found an expert to say that Israel had violated “international law.” The Toronto Star thought it was important to quote Hamas — another listed terrorist entity — who naturally condemned the attack on “our brothers in Hezbollah.”
And so on, and so on. Some Western media reacted to the pagers story in the way that they always do: unfairly and inaccurately.
Take, for example, the way in which many media describe Hezbollah and Hamas.
The BBC has called terrorists “activists.” Associated Press: “Assailants” and “underground.” Washington Post: “Assassins.” CNN: “Attackers.” Los Angeles Times: “Captors.” Orlando Sentinel: “Combatants.” Philadelphia Inquirer: “Commandos.” Orange County Register: “Dissidents.” New York Times: “Fighters.” The Guardian: “Freedom Fighters.” The Sunday Times: “Fugitives.” The Christian Science Monitor: “Guerillas.”
Newsweek: “Insurgents” and “radicals.” USA Today: “Martyrs.” Time: “Militants.” Chicago Tribune: “Nationalists.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Perpetrators.” Fox News: “Protesters.” Seattle Times: “Rebels.” San Diego Union-Tribune: “Resistance fighters.” Publishers Weekly: “Revolutionaries.” Newsday: “Vigilantes.” The New Yorker: “Warriors.”
We could go on, but there is not enough room. Suffice to say that, when terror groups commit acts of terror on Western soil, the media get the nomenclature right. Not when the target is Jews, however.
So, to cite just one example: in one month, March 2001, CNN reported on two different bomb attacks — one by an Irish Republican group, another by a Palestinian. The latter was called a “militant” when he set off a bomb in a taxi. The former were called “a terror group” for detonating a bomb outside the BBC’s main office in London. Get it? Same news organization, same month; two bombs, two attempts to kill. Yet very different words get used.
And that — as in the pagers story, as in just about every other story that emanates from the Middle East, going back decades — is the problem: Israel always, always gets held to a different standard.
Meanwhile, the terrorists get away with murder.
Figuratively, and literally.
KINSELLA: Time to get terror-group terminology right
For most of the past year, Hezbollah's rocket attacks on Israel have been routinely ignored or downplayed by the Western media.
Are you scared of just Arab Muslims or the majority which isn't Arab?Yep. Since its creation in December 1987, Hamas has invoked militant interpretations of Islam to spearhead a Sunni extremist movement committed to destroying Israel.
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Hamas distanced itself from the longstanding Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)—an umbrella organization for disparate Palestinian factions that ranged from Marxist to secular nationalists—by propagating resistance in the religious context of jihad, or a holy struggle and martyrdom. “Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes,” Hamas said in its first statement in the late 1980s.
Predominantly Shiite Iran has armed, trained and funded Hamas since the late 1980s largely due to its opposition to Israel and Islamic ideology.
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The Palestinian people being irrelevant to the broader Islamic Ummah follows a policy of irredentism, that goes something like this: Once a piece of land (and its inhabitants) comes under the rule of a legitimate Muslim authority, it forever becomes an inalienable part of the Dar al-Islām. If even one acre of the Dar al-Islām becomes conquered and ruled by a non-Muslim authority, the Ummah has an obligation to restore legitimate Muslim rule there, regardless of the wishes of the local inhabitants, and regardless of the cost in time, money, and lives.
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“It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror.”
Ummah - Wikipedia
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Which brings us to today. The nation that is currently Israel has changed hands repeatedly over time, and in the notion of irredentism must again become a Muslim land.
Opinion | Jordan ‘ready to intercept’ rockets from Iran and Houthis — Sky News Australia
Former British commander Richard Kemp believes Jordan is “ready to intercept” Iranian rockets launched from Iran or from the Houthis in Yemen.apple.news
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It doesn’t matter if Israel is controlled by Egypt or Jordan or Syria or Lebanon (now that Lebanon is predominantly Muslim) or Iran or even a Palestinian nation or a combination of all or any of the above, as long as it’s not what it currently is to the Ummah. This is what makes the “two-state solution” unworkable based on any borders from any time frame for the Ummah.
Many Middle Eastern states are caught between what’s in their best interests as nations & for their citizens, and this Ummah concept of irredentist philosophy. This is what’s dooming the peace process and any normalization of relations with non-Muslim predominant Israel.
Israel is just a snapshot in time. So far a 76 year-long snapshot so far, but still just a snapshot in time. I have no idea how long it will last but eventually it’s gonna lose once, and then it will be a footnote in history.Israel–United Arab Emirates normalization agreement - Wikipedia
Once Israel is gone, the Ummah can direct their focus elsewhere. The Muslims conquered most of Spain and Portugal and by 720 Spain was largely under Muslim (or Moorish, as it was called) control. India was once a majority Muslim ruled country — the Mughals ruled over all of India except the extreme south and the north east. This was at its peak in 1707. Just say’n…
BBC - Religions - Islam: Muslim Spain (711-1492)
Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. It brought a degree of civilisation to Europe that matched the heights of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance.www.bbc.co.uk
A “Palestinian Nation” for peace in the Middle East will be a temporary stepping stone at best for a fully ruled continuously carpeted Muslim world for the Ummah. The edges then become India & Portugal, then Spain.Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia
In 2022, 45% of Israel Jews self-identified as "secular"; 10% as haredi (ultra-orthodox); 33% as masorti ( lit. 'traditional'); and 12% as dati ( lit. 'religious' or 'orthodox', including religious zionist).
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Religion...
Religion in Israel - Wikipedia
Self-identity...
Nope. Just trying to mentally sort out the Middle East goat rodeo down to the lowest common denominator, & understand the over the top hatred in a region where everybody is abusing everybody else on an ongoing basis, & why some conflicts get so much attention and others get so little from the same general neighbourhood. Do you think I’m getting close?
Maybe it's our fault for not letting them into Canada or US post WW2 when they weren't welcome in Europe of Soviet Union?
I’m assuming you’re talking about the Jews? It was weird times.
Canada was still pretty much a Briddish colony then. One of the reasons Hitler got as far as he did is because of the Jew haters in the Briddish government in the 1930s.
Hezbollah is part of a larger Iran-led axis across the Middle East spanning Yemen, Syria, Gaza and Iraq that has engaged in a simmering conflict with Israel and its allies over the past 11 months…since…???
The axis has said they will continue striking Israeli targets as long as the war in Gaza goes on…
…rebranding themselves as a “supportive front(s)” for Palestinians in the strip, as described by a senior Hezbollah leader.
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Now, knowing Bibi doesn’t care about the Israeli hostages, or to discount their history they can be deemed holochostages or whatever…& in the nature of indiscriminate Willy-Nilly disregard of Palestinian lives, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a plan to force all Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, in order to lay siege to Hamas and force the release of hostages (that Israel doesn’t care about) or try to.
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The axis has said they will continue striking Israeli targets as long as the war in Gaza goes on…
…rebranding themselves as a “supportive front(s)” for Palestinians in the strip, as described by a senior Hezbollah leader.Hezbollah fires rockets deep into northern Israel as tensions flare. Here’s what we know — CNN
Hezbollah has fired projectiles targeting areas farther into Israeli territory than the majority previous strikes on Sunday, with the last 48 hours bringing the most intense exchanges of fire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group since October 7.
Netanyahu considering plan to force all Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza to besiege Hamas — CNN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a plan to force all Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, in order to lay siege to Hamas and force the release of hostages.
Always amazes me how much people bitch and complain about sending money abroad when that's already allotted for in budgets of all governments. And in this case, where it's for, you know, Polio vaccines, you'd think people would want that shit stopped before it becomes worse?
Or is it just typical racism of "let the diseases kill them all off"?
More than 270 people (Hezbollah people or non-Hezbollah people?) been killed and 1,000 injured in intense Israeli air strikes across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says, after Israel warned it was “deepening” its attacks on the armed group Hezbollah.
Thousands of people also fled their homes as the Israeli military said it struck more than 800 Hezbollah targets and told civilians to evacuate areas near the Iran-backed group’s positions.
Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel following the strikes. Israeli paramedics said one person was injured by shrapnel.
It is the deadliest day in almost a year of escalating cross-border fighting that has heightened fears of all-out war.
UN Secretary General António Guterres said on Sunday that he feared such a conflict could turn Lebanon into “another Gaza”.
Eleven months of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel sparked by the war in Gaza have killed hundreds of people, “MOST of them Hezbollah fighters,” and displaced tens of thousands on BOTH sides of the border.
Hezbollah has said it is acting in support of the Palestinian armed group Hamas (not the Palestinians Gazians but Hamas) and will not stop until there is a ceasefire (like there was Oct 6th, 2023) in Gaza. Both groups are backed by Iran and proscribed as terrorist organisations by Israel, the UK and other countries.
Hezbollah started lobbing missiles and rockets into Israel October 8th 2023 AFTER Hamas invaded Israel the day before, & BEFORE Israel set foot into Gaza in the following days/weeks/months.
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Thousands of people also fled their homes as the Israeli military said it struck more than 800 Hezbollah targets and told civilians to evacuate areas near the Iran-backed group’s positions.
Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel following the strikes. Israeli paramedics said one person was injured by shrapnel.
It is the deadliest day in almost a year of escalating cross-border fighting that has heightened fears of all-out war.
UN Secretary General António Guterres said on Sunday that he feared such a conflict could turn Lebanon into “another Gaza”.
Eleven months of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel sparked by the war in Gaza have killed hundreds of people, “MOST of them Hezbollah fighters,” and displaced tens of thousands on BOTH sides of the border.
Hezbollah has said it is acting in support of the Palestinian armed group Hamas (not the Palestinians Gazians but Hamas) and will not stop until there is a ceasefire (like there was Oct 6th, 2023) in Gaza. Both groups are backed by Iran and proscribed as terrorist organisations by Israel, the UK and other countries.
Hezbollah started lobbing missiles and rockets into Israel October 8th 2023 AFTER Hamas invaded Israel the day before, & BEFORE Israel set foot into Gaza in the following days/weeks/months.
Deadliest day in years for Lebanon as Israel steps up strikes on Hezbollah — BBC News
Israel says it hit 800 Hezbollah targets and tells civilians to flee areas near the group’s weapons.
Good luck. Hezbollah isn't locked in cage like Hamas.More than 270 people (Hezbollah people or non-Hezbollah people?) been killed and 1,000 injured in intense Israeli air strikes across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says, after Israel warned it was “deepening” its attacks on the armed group Hezbollah.
Thousands of people also fled their homes as the Israeli military said it struck more than 800 Hezbollah targets and told civilians to evacuate areas near the Iran-backed group’s positions.
Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel following the strikes. Israeli paramedics said one person was injured by shrapnel.
It is the deadliest day in almost a year of escalating cross-border fighting that has heightened fears of all-out war.
UN Secretary General António Guterres said on Sunday that he feared such a conflict could turn Lebanon into “another Gaza”.
Eleven months of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel sparked by the war in Gaza have killed hundreds of people, “MOST of them Hezbollah fighters,” and displaced tens of thousands on BOTH sides of the border.
Hezbollah has said it is acting in support of the Palestinian armed group Hamas (not the Palestinians Gazians but Hamas) and will not stop until there is a ceasefire (like there was Oct 6th, 2023) in Gaza. Both groups are backed by Iran and proscribed as terrorist organisations by Israel, the UK and other countries.
Hezbollah started lobbing missiles and rockets into Israel October 8th 2023 AFTER Hamas invaded Israel the day before, & BEFORE Israel set foot into Gaza in the following days/weeks/months.
Deadliest day in years for Lebanon as Israel steps up strikes on Hezbollah — BBC News
Israel says it hit 800 Hezbollah targets and tells civilians to flee areas near the group’s weapons.
You mean, “Good luck” to Israel? Open supply lines from Iran to Syria & Lebanon. I’m assuming they’ll be tracked but from the outside looking in we’ll find out from YouTube & the news services, etc…