Hamas attacks Israel

[Ron in Regina]

A flight carrying about 180 passengers to Tel Aviv from Dubai made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after one of the pilots stabbed another and sought to hijack the plane before being subdued, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Pilot on Tel Aviv-bound flight tried to crash plane after cockpit stabbing, Netanyahu says — The Washington Post

Flydubai Flight 1073 was carrying about 180 passengers to Tel Aviv from Dubai when it made the emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

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One of the pilots “apparently tried to crash the aircraft with everyone on board,” Netanyahu said in a video address, adding that he spoke to an Israeli passenger who, along with a crew member, “managed to force their way into the cockpit, and together they subdued the pilot who had carried out the stabbing as he was trying to sabotage the plane’s systems.” Nearly all of the passengers on board were Israeli, Netanyahu added.”

 

[Ron in Regina]

Flydubai said in a statement that the underlying reasons for the event remained unknown and warned against "premature speculation." An Israeli official identified the co-pilot as an Omani national. There was no immediate comment from Oman.

Israeli officials applauded the passengers, who they credited with avoiding a much more serious disaster. Netanyahu said there were 174 people on board the flight from Dubai, most of them Israeli nationals.

Passengers on a flydubai flight reached Israel safely on Wednesday after customers and crew foiled a co-pilot's attempt to crash the aircraft, Israeli officials said, in a struggle that began when he stabbed the pilot and sent the jet plunging nearly 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds.

Passengers and crew entered the cockpit, overpowered the co-pilot and enabled a second pair of flydubai pilots ‌who were aboard the flight to land the jet safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, Israeli officials said.

A Netanyahu spokesperson told Reuters that the wounded captain, identified by the Israeli leader's office as Smit Machchhar, an Indian national, was covered with blood on the floor when he managed to click the release to open the cockpit door. Passengers who entered found the co-pilot bashing at the plane's control panel, the spokesperson said. “This is something you do without thinking, just running to save your daughter’s life, your family’s life,” said Asaf Rajuan, one of the passengers who helped restrain the attacker. He spoke with a forehead still bloodied from the struggle.

The UAE government had yet to comment on the flydubai incident, while the Dubai state-owned airline said an "altercation" occurred in the cockpit and the flight subsequently diverted to Tabuk, where it landed safely. The UAE's aviation regulator, the GCAA, said the flight "experienced a security incident that was brought under control".

Passengers foil bid to crash Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, Israel says, after co-pilot-on-pilot stabbing — Reuters

Passengers on a flydubai flight reached Israel safely on Wednesday after customers and crew foiled a co-pilot's attempt to crash the aircraft, Israeli officials said, in a struggle that began when he stabbed the pilot and sent the jet plunging nearly 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds.

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Describing the event as "a serious security incident," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saudi authorities would interrogate the co-pilot. The official name of the co-pilot on Flydubai flight FZ1073 has not been released by authorities or the airline.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Israelis gathered Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its 2 million people living in dire conditions.

In southern Israel, families mourned at intersections, bomb shelters and the site of a music festival that the militants overran three years ago in the deadliest attack in the country's history. It is the first anniversary since all the hostages, living and dead, were returned, marking a new stage of grief.

For Palestinians, the anniversary brings another day of misery after an Israeli retaliatory campaign in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of people.

Most Gaza residents live in vast, squalid tent camps, with large parts of the strip’s cities reduced to rubble. More than half the territory remains in the hands of the Israeli military. Despite a ceasefire deal reached nearly a year ago, Israeli strikes continue almost daily.

For the region, the day highlights a startling transformation over the past three years.

Israelis mourn Oct. 7 attack as Palestinians in Gaza languish in ruins of the war it sparked — The Canadian Press

REIM, Israel (AP) — On a field where music festival revelers were gunned down by

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Israeli troops occupy a large chunk of southern Lebanon in their conflict with the Hezbollah militant group, which began firing on Israel in 2023 in support of Hamas. Iran and the United States are locked in a confrontation that has seen attacks across Gulf Arab countries and has shaken the global economy — a conflict that Israel helped launch and that the Gaza war paved the way for, even if they weren’t directly connected.

The attack set in motion a cascade of events that led to wars across the Middle East as Israel confronted Hamas, Hezbollah and their backer Iran. Israel has seized swaths of territory in Syria and Lebanon, where more than 300,000 Lebanese remain displaced. The United States joined Israel in attacking Iran’s military and nuclear program in two rounds, battering Iran and upending global markets far from the battlefield.

Pullout of B-1 bombers shows how an outgunned Iran is keeping the U.S. on edge — The Washington Post

Tehran has also used the threat of unconventional attacks to inflict chaos on global energy markets and threaten the safety of Air Force One.

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In just 20 days, Israelis will head to the polls to decide whether to return to power Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who led Israel on the day of the Hamas-led attacks and in the tumultuous years since.

Netanyahu’s opponents accuse him of a litany of failures before and after that fateful day. They say he unwisely allowed Qatari money to flow into Gaza in a bid to keep Hamas quiet. They accuse him of ignoring warnings from the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a major attack. And they say he has rejected calls for a 9/11 Commission-style public inquiry because the findings of such an investigation would damage him politically.

President Trump told reporters Thursday on the White House’s South Lawn that Iran “won’t exist any longer” unless it signs “a very fair deal.” It is the latest of multiple threats where he has threatened Iran’s existence, remarks that lawmakers alleged earlier this year could amount to threatening war crimes.

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A spokesperson for Hamas' military wing, the Qassam Brigades, offered a salute “steeped in glory and pride” to the fighters who took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.

Briefly acknowledging the “steep” price on the people of Gaza, Abu Obaida said they would be remembered for altering the face of history and the global balance of power. Since the attack and the ensuing war in Gaza, around 74,000 Palestinians have been killed and the majority of its population driven from their homes.

Abu Obaida also praised Iran for its support, as well as militant groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Officials in Tehran, meanwhile, have questioned whether Washington genuinely wants negotiations as the US-Israel war on Iran enters its eighth month.

Turkey sending technical, defensive support to Saudi Arabia to help fight Houthis, officials say — Reuters

Turkey is sending mainly defensive and technical support to Saudi Arabia to help it fight Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, two officials said on Wednesday, ‌after the NATO member and Pakistan pledged to act on the collective defence commitment of their newly formed alliance.

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Most Republicans in tight midterm distance themselves from Trump, Reuters review finds — Reuters

Two-thirds of Republican candidates in competitive US House and Senate races have broken with President Donald Trump on policy or played down ties to him, a Reuters review found, revealing a widespread effort to distance themselves from the president as his unpopularity threatens the party's...

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Carney's Palestinian statehood blunder
Hamas hasn’t been disarmed and plans to participate in next year’s election

Author of the articleostmedia News
Published Oct 12, 2026 • 2 minute read
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Photo by Osmancan Gürdoan /Getty Images

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has just delayed the election that Prime Minister Mark Carney said was a key condition of Canada’s decision last year to formally recognize an independent Palestinian state.


That election, originally scheduled for Nov. 28, has now been delayed by almost 10 months until Sept. 11, 2027.

This is hardly a surprise, given that Abbas hasn’t allowed Palestinian elections since 2006, when he lost the last one to Hamas, which was designated a terrorist organization by Canada in 2002.

That led to Hamas taking over Gaza while Abbas’ Fatah party continues to rule in the West Bank — the two components of what are supposed to form the new Palestinian state.

Abbas’ predictable decision to postpone the election demonstrates the folly of Carney and other Western leaders recognizing Palestinian statehood, prior to it meeting the conditions they said were necessary to create “a sovereign, democratic and viable State of Palestine,” living “in peace and security alongside the State of Israel.”


As Carney put it at the time, those were based on Abbas’ “direct commitments to Canada and the international community on much-needed reforms, including to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state.”

Flash forward to today and there won’t be an election this year. Hamas hasn’t been disarmed and, in fact, plans to participate in next year’s election — assuming it ever actually happens — after agreeing with Abbas’ decision to delay it until September 2027.

Palestinian leaders blamed the postponement on interference by Israel — which is its standard operating procedure for failing to meet its own commitments — although what is true is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces his own election on Oct. 27, opposes the creation of a Palestinian state.



Naive decision
That said, the decision by Carney and other Western leaders to put their faith in Abbas was painfully naive. He’s 90 years old and has been widely condemned as an antisemite and Holocaust denier.

In addition, polls show he has little popular support among Palestinians, with the overwhelming majority wanting him to resign because they think he is ineffective. They believe the Palestinian Authority he leads, which has received billions of dollars in foreign aid, is corrupt.

EDITORIAL: Carney's Palestinian statehood blunder

The decision by Mark Carney and other Western leaders to put their faith in Mahmoud Abbas was painfully naive. Read on.

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Examining the American left's genocide hypocrisy
Surreal charges of 'genocide' against Israel are so often coming from elite Middle Eastern immigrants

Author of the article:Victor Davis Hanson
Published Oct 12, 2026 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 4 minute read
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (C) speaks during a press conference at City Hall following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on August 28, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a press conference at City Hall following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Aug. 28, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minn. Photo by Stephen Maturen /Getty Images

On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas killers slaughtered 1,200 people, more than two-thirds of them civilians, inside Israel. For the ensuing three weeks, they refused Israel’s demands to turn over the 251 hostages and to surrender the architects of the massacre. No matter — within a day of the attacks, when Hamas gunmen were still fighting Israeli troops on Israeli soil, the American left was already screaming “genocide!”


They did not mean Hamas’s intended genocide of Jews, a foretaste of which was seen when it launched a surprise invasion force of more than 4,000 terrorists some 25 km into Israel. The killers were accompanied by some 2,000 “innocent” Gazan “civilians.” All were bent on looting, murder, rape, torture, and hostage-taking of the defenceless.

Nor did the “genocide” chorus refer to the more than 13,000 rockets, missiles and drones launched from Gaza after Oct. 7 that predominantly targeted Israeli civilian neighbourhoods.

What was most surreal about the charges of “genocide” against Israel — along with all the other slurs of “settler-colonialism,” “apartheid,” “occupation,” “war crimes” — was that they so often came from elite first- and second-generation Middle Eastern immigrants to America. Yet these prominent American accusers have remained silent about whether their lurid accusations might far better reflect the sordid histories of their own homelands.


Hasan Piker
Hasan Piker attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Mark Guiducci at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 15, 2026, in Los Angeles. Photo by Amy Sussman /Getty Images
Piker quiet on Turkish atrocities
Take the Turkish-American anchor baby Hasan Piker, the millionaire podcaster who has dual citizenship and grew up in Turkey. Piker has gained celebrity as the socialist heartthrob who is the brain of the new Democratic/Socialist/Islamist alliance. Besides his antisemitic rants, he has declared that, “America deserved 9/11,” and, “Oh God, I f—ing hate America so much.”

Yet the outspoken Piker has only once in passing mentioned Turkey’s 1974 invasion and the half-century occupation of nearly 40% of Cyprus.

Nor did Piker, who damns the creation of Israel in 1948, say a word about the Turkish torching of the historic Greek-majority Ionian city of Smyrna in 1922, in which tens of thousands of civilians were incinerated.

Given Piker’s supposedly vast historical recall and outspoken human rights advocacy, one would at least expect him to be sensitive to the horror of Turkey’s Armenian genocide, in which Turkish troops slaughtered more than one million civilians and for which the Turkish government still denies any culpability. But when once challenged by Armenian-Americans, he dismissed them, saying flippantly, “It’s more fun to enrage you.”


And the pattern goes beyond mere podcasters.


Omar no saint, either
Rep. Ilhan Omar, a first-generation immigrant from Somalia, also brays loudly about supposed Israeli war crimes. Omar spouts “genocide” and “apartheid” in her frequently antisemitic rants. She has also labelled her adopted nation as “one of the worst countries” in the world.

But Omar is the daughter of a well-known colonel in the truly genocidal army of Somali dictator Siad Barre. The latter waged a decade-long war of extermination against the rival Isaaq clan that opposed Barre’s 21-year dictatorship. Estimates of the Barre regime’s murderous toll range from 50,000 to 200,000 killed, mostly civilians. Few in Omar’s politically active Somali immigrant community concede that many fled Somalia to America only when Barre’s two-decade reign of terror was finally overthrown and they feared retaliation from his victims.

Of course, the nation’s biggest elected leftist rising star has also joined in.


New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a May Day rally marking International Workers' Day in New York, on May 1, 2026.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a May Day rally marking International Workers’ Day in New York, on May 1, 2026. Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP /Getty Images
Mamdani another privileged ingrate
Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, employs the same tired anti-Israeli and anti-American verbiage. Yet he went further than other antisemites when he launched grandstanding threats to jail Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu any time the latter visited New York to address the United Nations.

For America’s 250th birthday, Mamdani’s July 3 “commemorative” address blasted American “monopolies that dominate every industry,” federal agents supposedly “terrorizing our streets” and a country where we “sell our elections to the highest bidder.” The calumny was odd coming from a dual citizen of the police state of Uganda, where there are no real elections but lots of Indian “monopolies.”

Indeed, Mamdani himself better fits his own charges of “settler-colonist” and “apartheid.” His Indian community in Uganda comprises less than 0.1% of the population. But somehow it still accounts for over 60% of Uganda’s GDP. It was implanted there by 19th-century British imperialists as a “settler-colonial” community to help control the indigenous black population.


In short, we should remind these privileged ingrates — regardless of what corner of the world they hail from — to look inward before they blast their adopted country and not to project the sins of their own homelands upon either Israel or America.

— Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, from Basic Books. You can reach him by emailing authorvdh@gmail.com.

HANSON: Examining the American left's genocide hypocrisy

What was most surreal about the charges of 'genocide' against Israel was they so often came from elite Middle Eastern immigrants. More here.

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Councillor urged Chow to keep quiet after Oct. 7 attacks
Davenport’s rookie councillor Alejandra Bravo wrote three years ago to tell mayor that her condemnation of Hamas’ terror attacks was 'unhelpful'

Author of the article:Justin Holmes
Published Oct 14, 2026 • 4 minute read
Alejandra Bravo
Councillor Alejandra Bravo is seen at an executive committee meeting on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Photo by JACK BOLAND /TORONTO SUN FILES

In the days after Hamas’ terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Mayor Olivia Chow got an earful from the public for how she represented the city — and also found herself in the middle of a political divide within city council.


Emails and related documents, disclosed via a freedom-of-information request and provided to the Toronto Sun by the political group Integrity TO, show that Davenport’s rookie councillor Alejandra Bravo wrote three years ago to tell Chow to stay out of the conflict.

“I fail to understand why any commentary has been called for,” Bravo wrote both Chow and her chief of staff Michal Hay on Oct. 9, 2023.

That was two days after Chow condemned Hamas’ attacks on social media and then deleted a related post, hours after some 1,200 people were murdered in Israel, that said “Palestinian pain and severe loss of life” must also be acknowledged.

“The initial message was unnecessary in my view and was not helpful,” Bravo wrote, “nor was its deletion. The second message was similarly unhelpful. Subsequent responses are also concerning in relation to rallies and protests.”


Some three hours before Bravo’s email, Chow had posted to the social media platform X to denounce an unsanctioned pro-Palestinian rally set for Nathan Phillips Square.

Representatives for Bravo’s re-election campaign did not respond to a request for comment, nor did representatives for Chow.

Another document, also included in the freedom-of-information disclosure, shows that Chow’s statement against the rally had been in the works by her staff since at least 8 a.m. that morning. The document said the message would be posted “as a statement image, not a Twitter thread, so that nothing is taken out of context and shared alone.”

Alejandra Bravo
Councillor Alejandra Bravo shares a laugh with staff as protesters disrupt a news conference on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. Photo by Justin Holmes/Toronto Sun
‘Unwilling to stay silent’: Bravo
The document noted other statements had been made on social media by Chow’s council colleagues Josh Matlow and James Pasternak, both of whom are Jewish. Each denounced the rally and the killing of Israelis.

“There’s no justifiable ‘both sidesism’ to Hamas’ attacks in Israel,” Matlow wrote in one of the quoted messages, posted to X on the night of Oct. 8, 2023.


Another Jewish councillor, Dianne Saxe, also reached out to Chow to share a blog post written by Alon Tal, like herself an environmentalist and politician.

“This is not a ‘battle against Hamas.’ There is an autonomous state in Gaza. Its leaders waged a surprise attack against Israel,” Tal wrote. “They waged a war because they want to eradicate our country and kill its citizens. So, now we have no choice: We must win this war decisively.”

Saxe wrote to Chow on Oct. 10: “Well written and sadly persuasive.”



There are no other examples of councillors writing to Chow other than Saxe and Bravo in the documents, which were provided after Integrity TO requested all communications within the mayor’s office that used a handful of phrases related to the Oct. 7 attacks.


Unlike Saxe, Bravo made no mention of the attacks by Hamas except to say a “global crisis” had “escalated once again as the armed conflict related to the 75-year Israeli occupation of Palestine has resulted in tragic violence and loss of life for both populations.” Most of her email was strictly about Canadians’ freedom to demonstrate.

“I am left feeling concerned about how events have unfolded this weekend,” Bravo wrote to Chow. “I also find myself in the position of having to publicly speak in favour of the indisputable right to freedom of association and political expression.

“This is not negotiable in this country and I am unwilling to stay silent when there is a need to uphold protected rights.”

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The City of Toronto received 6,314 emails in early October 2023. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
The City of Toronto received 6,314 “conflict in the Middle East emails” in early October 2023. TORONTO SUN GRAPHIC
AVALANCHE OF EMAILS
Olivia Chow got so many emails from her Toronto constituents in the days after Oct. 7, 2023, her staff provided a statistical breakdown of them on Oct. 10 — and it wasn’t flattering. (The Toronto Sun acquired the figures in a freedom-of-information request.)


The mayor’s office had got 6,314 “conflict in the Middle East emails” by that point, and most of them — 3,794 — were form letters asking her to stop the Nathan Phillips Square rally, set for Thanksgiving Monday 2023. Another 2,048 were individually written letters about the rally, either urging her either to stop it or expressing disappointment that it had gone ahead.

Meanwhile, 279 emails were criticisms about her stated position, including her social media posts. Another 37 were general emails about conflict in the Middle East, 32 were general emails in support of Israel and 10 expressed concern for local safety.

Amid all that were a few messages of support. Chow got 75 emails in support of the Palestinians or the rally and 58 to thank her for her appearance at a pro-Israel demonstration held at Mel Lastman Square on Oct. 9 of that year.

In 2024, the Sunpublished a number of emails to Chow on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks, acquired after a freedom-of-information request.

Chow chose not to attend a vigil to mark one year since the attacks. One constituent told Chow she appeared “conspicuously un-empathetic” to Toronto’s Jewish population.

“You are a disgrace and you should continue hiding until you are finally voted out of office,” another notable email read. “You owe the Toronto Jewish community an apology. Shame on you!”

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Weasel words led to Canada’s recognition of Palestine
Prime Minister Mark Carney misled Canadians

Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Published Oct 14, 2026 • 3 minute read
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, as part of a trip during which he welcomed a proposal for Canada to become the EU's first associate member, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026.
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, as part of a trip during which he welcomed a proposal for Canada to become the EU's first associate member, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. Photo by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP /Getty Images

It now seems clear that Prime Minister Mark Carney misled Canadians when he said, in recognizing the Palestinian state on July 30, 2025, that Canada’s support was “predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms.”


These included, “commitments by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state.”

On the issue of demilitarization, Carney said, “Hamas must disarm and … must play no role in the future governance of Palestine.”

When a policy is “predicated” on certain actions taking place, the plain and simple meaning of the word is that these actions are supposed to happen before the policy comes into effect.

In law, this is known as a “condition precedent,” meaning the specified actions must be established before a contract becomes legally binding and enforceable.

Of course this isn’t about law, it’s about Mideast politics.


With Abbas announcing last week that he is postponing Palestinian elections scheduled for Nov. 28 by almost 10 months, until Sept. 11, 2027, and given the fact Hamas has not disarmed, intends to participate in that election and agrees with Abbas’ decision to postpone it, none of the conditions on which Carney “predicated” Canada’s recognition of an independent Palestinian state have been met.

That obviously doesn’t matter because Canada is not going to withdraw its recognition of the Palestinian state, which Carney formally declared at the United Nations on Sept. 22 2025.

‘Deep regret’
On Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, issued a joint statement with the foreign affairs ministers of Australia, France and the U.K., expressing “deep regret” over Abbas’ decision to postpone the election and called “on the Palestinian Authority to reconsider the decision … and to take the necessary steps to hold legislative and presidential elections without further delay.”


But that was it. There was nothing about Canada cancelling its recognition of the Palestinian state, or delaying or withdrawing its latest $100-million donation last month intended for humanitarian aid in Gaza and the West Bank and to train police and security forces in the West Bank.

That was part of the more than $600-million Canada has donated in international assistance to the Palestinians since the war in Gaza was set off by Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s military response which devastated Gaza and led to more than 70,000 deaths.

Given that, it’s now reasonable to conclude Carney’s recognition of the Palestinian state was unconditional and the claim it was predicated on Abbas fulfilling specific conditions was performative — a statement done for show, without any conviction behind it.

Abbas blamed his decision to postpone the Palestinian elections on interference by Israel, but that’s nothing new.


Abbas hasn’t allowed any Palestinian elections since 2006, when he lost to Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by Canada in 2002.

That led to Hamas taking over Gaza while Abbas’ Fatah party continued to rule in the West Bank — the two components of what are supposed to form the new Palestinian state.

The last time Abbas postponed Palestinian elections was in 2021.

The reason Abbas — who is 90 years old and has been widely condemned as an antisemite and Holocaust denier — keeps postponing elections is out of his fear of losing them.

Polls show he has little popular support among Palestinians, with the overwhelming majority wanting him to resign because they think he is ineffective.

They also believe the Palestinian Authority he leads, which has received billions of dollars in foreign aid, is corrupt.

By contrast, when it comes to faulting Israel for impeding the creation of a Palestinian state, the Carney government is ever vigilant.

For example, Anand announced in June that Canada was imposing its fifth round of sanctions related to violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, which Canada views as a major obstacle to the so-called “two-state solution” of an independent Palestinian state living in peace beside a secure Israel.

GOLDSTEIN: Weasel words led to Canada’s recognition of Palestine

It now seems clear that Prime Minister Mark Carney misled Canadians regarding Palestine comments. Find out more.

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[Dixie Cup]

I'm so tired of the lies! Unbelievable!!

 

[petros]

Weasel words led to Canada’s recognition of Palestine
Prime Minister Mark Carney misled Canadians

Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Published Oct 14, 2026 • 3 minute read
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, as part of a trip during which he welcomed a proposal for Canada to become the EU's first associate member, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026.
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, as part of a trip during which he welcomed a proposal for Canada to become the EU's first associate member, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. Photo by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP /Getty Images

It now seems clear that Prime Minister Mark Carney misled Canadians when he said, in recognizing the Palestinian state on July 30, 2025, that Canada’s support was “predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms.”


These included, “commitments by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state.”

On the issue of demilitarization, Carney said, “Hamas must disarm and … must play no role in the future governance of Palestine.”

When a policy is “predicated” on certain actions taking place, the plain and simple meaning of the word is that these actions are supposed to happen before the policy comes into effect.

In law, this is known as a “condition precedent,” meaning the specified actions must be established before a contract becomes legally binding and enforceable.

Of course this isn’t about law, it’s about Mideast politics.


With Abbas announcing last week that he is postponing Palestinian elections scheduled for Nov. 28 by almost 10 months, until Sept. 11, 2027, and given the fact Hamas has not disarmed, intends to participate in that election and agrees with Abbas’ decision to postpone it, none of the conditions on which Carney “predicated” Canada’s recognition of an independent Palestinian state have been met.

That obviously doesn’t matter because Canada is not going to withdraw its recognition of the Palestinian state, which Carney formally declared at the United Nations on Sept. 22 2025.

‘Deep regret’
On Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, issued a joint statement with the foreign affairs ministers of Australia, France and the U.K., expressing “deep regret” over Abbas’ decision to postpone the election and called “on the Palestinian Authority to reconsider the decision … and to take the necessary steps to hold legislative and presidential elections without further delay.”


But that was it. There was nothing about Canada cancelling its recognition of the Palestinian state, or delaying or withdrawing its latest $100-million donation last month intended for humanitarian aid in Gaza and the West Bank and to train police and security forces in the West Bank.

That was part of the more than $600-million Canada has donated in international assistance to the Palestinians since the war in Gaza was set off by Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s military response which devastated Gaza and led to more than 70,000 deaths.

Given that, it’s now reasonable to conclude Carney’s recognition of the Palestinian state was unconditional and the claim it was predicated on Abbas fulfilling specific conditions was performative — a statement done for show, without any conviction behind it.

Abbas blamed his decision to postpone the Palestinian elections on interference by Israel, but that’s nothing new.


Abbas hasn’t allowed any Palestinian elections since 2006, when he lost to Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by Canada in 2002.

That led to Hamas taking over Gaza while Abbas’ Fatah party continued to rule in the West Bank — the two components of what are supposed to form the new Palestinian state.

The last time Abbas postponed Palestinian elections was in 2021.

The reason Abbas — who is 90 years old and has been widely condemned as an antisemite and Holocaust denier — keeps postponing elections is out of his fear of losing them.

Polls show he has little popular support among Palestinians, with the overwhelming majority wanting him to resign because they think he is ineffective.

They also believe the Palestinian Authority he leads, which has received billions of dollars in foreign aid, is corrupt.

By contrast, when it comes to faulting Israel for impeding the creation of a Palestinian state, the Carney government is ever vigilant.

For example, Anand announced in June that Canada was imposing its fifth round of sanctions related to violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, which Canada views as a major obstacle to the so-called “two-state solution” of an independent Palestinian state living in peace beside a secure Israel.

GOLDSTEIN: Weasel words led to Canada’s recognition of Palestine

It now seems clear that Prime Minister Mark Carney misled Canadians regarding Palestine comments. Find out more.

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Is the occupation over?

Canadian recognition of Palestine is older than you Spammy.

In 2026 1100 Palestians have been murdered in West Bank by Jewish Supremacist terrorists.

They are supposed to be packing up before anything else happens.

 

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I'm so tired of the lies! Unbelievable!!

Then give up on Zionism. Its 100% lies.