The State of Israel is Committing Genocide Upon the Civilians of Gaza.
The students who are protesting against the Israel genocide of Gaza have justice on their side. Stop this evil!
The keynote of my life is my constant desire to know the true facts about anything and everything. I was a 20 year-old UBC student when 1967 saw Israel’s “Six Day War” and over here in nice safe Canada we saw the proliferation of psychoactive LSD – which I now know had its origin in evil mind control experiments by the CIA – and the popularization of marijuana. And meanwhile I saw first hand the student activism now legendary as “Hippie” and “Counterculture” – a lot more legend than fact. I look back on that now with a cynical eye, after I have spent decades trying to learn the truth about it all. Born in 1947, I could scarcely be more typical of the “Baby Boom” and even “Counterculture” generation in many ways.
So any of you youngsters in your 40s or 50s talking about “hippies” and “campus protest” can annoy me sometimes. I was there. We “boomers” were there. OK?
I’m 77 and I have studied the history of my times inside and out. I know a thing or two about this stuff. As to this genocidal mass murder of the civilians of Gaza I am not balanced. Israel is evil. It must be stopped.
This genocide not only besmirches all of us it endangers the very existence of humanity. Israel has 80 nuclear warheads and an oligarchic fanatical government crazy enough to use them.
Evil? There couldn’t be anything more evil.
In September of 1967 I was beginning my second semester at UBC in Vancouver. I met and befriended a fellow student, a Jewish law student who had just come back from visiting a childhood friend in Israel, an IDF service member who had participated in the ground “operations” of the “Six Day War”, Israel’s 1967 war of conquest which initiated its Occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. This young man was shocked and shattered by what he had heard from the mouth of his childhood friend, a first-hand witness of his fellow IDF soldiers “terrorizing” Palestinian villages. Palestinian women and children were murdered en masse by the IDF. Their throats were cut and their bodies laid in rows. Don’t be telling me they weren’t! I damn well know!
So I am very ungentlemanly about the issue of Bibi Netanyahu and his gang levelling Gaza in order to expel or exterminate the rightful inhabitants.
The people who "stand with Israel", like Ezra Levant and Jordan Peterson (apparently, to my dismay. What happened to him during all those months when he nearly died from medical incompetence?), I can't understand how they could ignore this mass murder.
Ezra Levant’s Rebel News, whose people did so much to support the Truckers Freedom Convoy and are still supporting with legal aid people who are being persecuted because of the Convoy and because they protested against drag queen children's events and sexualization of kids in school, Rebel News that has been a crusader for freedom and a supporter of anti-Trudeau protests, are now calling for the anti-Israel student protesters to be brutally repressed?!
I won’t bother trying to post the link. You don’t need it anyway:
"U of T's 'Little Gaza' continues to fester as pro-Hamas mob becomes more bold - Rebel News”
<< The grassy area of the University of Toronto remains occupied by what seems to be a new-age Hitler Youth Movement. Indeed, this patch of greenery is now known as “Little Gaza” — in fact, a sign proclaims this occupied territory as such. From what we could tell, Little Gaza looks a lot like Gaza Classic given that it is increasingly resembling a hell hole…
<< This disgrace began last week when the pro-Hamas demonstrators broke a section of the fence designed to prevent them from setting up an encampment upon the University of Toronto’s grounds...
<< One is left to ponder: when does the Emergencies Act kick in? And when do these campers have their bank accounts frozen? And when does the Toronto Police Service charge in with their Mounted Unit like they did a few years back when Adam Skelly had the temerity to open his barbecue restaurant? These days, the political double standards and two-tier policing cannot be more apparent...
<< The question remains: with graduation ceremonies looming in just a few short weeks, how long will this vile and illegal encampment be tolerated?... >>
Don’t the Rebel News reporter and Ezra Levant hear themselves? “Hitler Youth”? “Occupied territory”? “Pro-Hamas”? “When does the Emergencies Act kick in? When do these campers have their bank accounts frozen?” ???!!!
Rebel News is complaining because the students protesting what the ICC called genocide are not being treated in the same illegal unconstitutional fashion as were the Truckers? The invocation of the Emergencies Act was ruled illegal by our federal court. Rebel campaigned against it. Now Rebel CALLS for it?
I don’t care that Ezra is blindly Zionist. It’s no excuse. He gets no sympathy from me! Where is the consistency in advocating for principles instead of knee-jerk partisan loyalty to some other country when we Canadians need him to care about our freedoms to peacefully protest as these students are doing.
Shame on you Ezra Levant!
Gaza’s are now fleeing from Rafah as the Israelis threaten over a million refugees with invasion and bombing. Somebody took a cell phone video of the fleeing civilians:
Look at these civilians desperately trying to flee from Israeli bombing of Rafah. Don’t you see these primitive savage Arabs with their camels and goat-carts and barefoot and in head to toe medieval robes? No?
GOLLY! They actually have cars! They actually are NO DIFFERENT than we are! They actually live in a modern city, just a city that’s been under siege since before most of them were born and yet the people have preserved a modern city against all odds. Electricity and plumbing and everything. They are no different than we will be if we are subjected to war. They are actually not alien savages and “animals” after all. WHO’D HAVE GUESSED IT?! You Ezra?
I have seen on line comments which claim that "most of Islam is insane, and trained to hate from birth”. It’s a popular conception over here in nice “liberal” Canada. What shameful racist hate from people who call other people hateful!
Our Canadian government is joined at the hip to Israel and to Washington, so this is the ignorant sludge we get from our government-paid media whores.
The US Congress and White House are the only forces that could stop the violence in Gaza but since almost all of their political careers depend on funding by the billionaires of the American Israeli Political Affairs Committee they do nothing. Nothing but continue to supply Israel economically and militarily while the danger of a wider war festers and grows unchecked.
Late polls prove that the American public – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – want the wars to stop. But Congress doesn’t hear them. It seems that Congress and the White House don’t think stopping the war that the US taxpayer is forced to fund is the American public's business. I disagree.
It’s the business of everybody in the shadow of possible nuclear war. Also repudiating the hate propaganda that stokes up the violence is everybody’s business.
Palestinians are trained to hate all Jews? And Israelis are not trained to hate all Palestinians? That Israeli citizens are subjected to anti-Palestinian indoctrination which is plainly racist and dehumanizing is easily demonstrable. For example:
"Embracing racism, rabbis at pre-army yeshiva laud Hitler, urge enslaving Arabs | The Times of Israel" By TAMAR PILEGGI
30 April 2019, 10:17 am
<< Two rabbis at a pre-military religious academy in a West Bank settlement were recorded making derogatory and racist comments about Arabs, defending Adolf Hitler’s worldview, and openly promoting Jewish supremacy.
<< In a series of undated recordings published by Channel 13 news on Monday, Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel, the head of the Bnei David academy in Eli, can be heard calling for the enslavement of the “stupid and violent” non-Jews due to their genetic inferiority.
<< “The gentiles will want to be our slaves. Being a slave to a Jew is the best. They’re glad to be slaves, they want to be slaves,” he told a class in one of the video clips. “Instead of just walking the streets and being stupid and violent and harming each other, once they’re slaves, their lives can begin to take shape.”...
<< In another clip from the Bnei David Yeshiva published by Channel 13, Rabbi Giora Redler can be heard praising Hilter’s ideology during a lesson about the Holocaust.
<< “Let’s just start with whether Hitler was right or not,” he told students. “He was the most correct person there ever was, and was correct in every word he said... he was just on the wrong side ... “The real Holocaust was not when they murdered the Jews, that’s not it. All these excuses — that it was ideological or systematic — are nonsense,” he said. “Humanism, and the secular culture of ‘We believe in man,’ that’s the Holocaust.” >>
In fact, in other sources published at the time it was revealed that Redler preached that the Nazi mass murder was punishment of Liberal and pluralistic Diaspora Jews to drive them back to Biblical Israel where all Jews belong – and absolutely no people belong other than Jews – Jews only and exclusively as Redler and his fellow Rabbis define Judaism – unless they are slaves, in which case they will be happy slaves of course.
Bnei David is still a well endowed prep school which has educated the majority of IDF officers. There are many Israelis who denounced these rabbis and demanded that Bnei David be defunded. But they were in the minority in 2019 and nothing was done. Now these liberal Israelis are in an even smaller minority.
The anti-war minority of Jews is now active in America and Canada. Young Jews on our college campuses are leading the protests against Israel’s barbarity. They are being vilified and physically attacked by provocateurs. Cui bono? Who benefits from this vilification?
The Israeli blockade of Gaza, denying food and water for six months, hurts only civilians. There is no way to deny that 30,000 civilians have been killed when it was and is known that this has no effect on Hamas. It must be stopped before the surrounding countries are finally impelled to attack Israel, triggering an open war that could go nuclear.
Are all Israeli citizens trained from childhood to accept as normal such racist, supremacist ideology as what the rabbis of Bnei David preach? I hope not. But I think that we here in the West – and I include my Jewish friends – make a serious mistake when we assume that Israelis all must share our opinions about human rights just because they live in a modern city like Tel Aviv. Socially and politically speaking, Israelis are very different people from us. And Judaism is not the real reason for that fatal difference.
We here in Canada – nominal Jews, Christians, Muslims, “none of the above" – grow up in an atmosphere where religion is optional and completely separated from political power by law and custom going back in time to long before the founding of Canada. Here a bland and indifferent agnosticism is the norm. Canadians and our American neighbours have no basis in experience to understand what it means when politics and religious orthodoxy combine in a divided land where arguments are settled by gunfire.
We here in Canada do not live in a perpetual war zone and we are not conscripted for two years service into an actively engaged army when we reach the age of 18. Israelis live this reality. Since 1967 the Israeli Defense Force infantry have occupied the areas of former Palestine outside the 1947-defined State of Israel. If that situation continuing for 57 or 76 years of development makes for a population most Canadians would consider anti-social would that really be so surprising?
In 2007 the Israeli “settlers” that had been squatting illegally (with no property deeds) in Gaza were forcibly expelled by the IDF from Gaza, supposedly as a peace deal. Soon, however, a razor wire and gun-tower-studded enclosure surrounded Gaza and turned it into a concentration camp. Food, water, fuel, medicines and access to and from Gaza were and are strictly controlled by Israel.
Periodically some primitive and militarily useless rockets have been fired from Gaza. In response the IDF has bombed Gaza, sometimes [as in 2011 at about 11:30 in the morning as I recall] calculating attacks to kill as many school kids as possible. In the convenient absence of Jewish “settlers”, Gaza has been a free-fire target practice zone any time Bibi Netanyahu feels the need to look tough. That’s cynical me talking. Somebody please prove me wrong.
In 2019 in Gaza a movement arose calling itself the Great March of Return. This amounted to crowds of Gaza civilians assembling close to the Israeli fence carrying placards and shouting, demanding that Gaza be freed. This took place every Saturday for months. The IDF responded with sniper fire which killed hundreds of unarmed people including women and children and maimed many hundreds more for life. The IDF soldiers made and sported T-shirts emblazoned with proud racist slogans. The worst one featured a cartoon of a pregnant woman with rifle sights superimposed and the slogan, “One Shot Two Kills” in English. I downloaded the image from an IDF authorized website that offered it for sale.
That was the last time the ideals of non-violent resistance were tried out by the people confined in Gaza. Since then all food and water and electric power and fuel for heating or vehicles or generators all continue to be strictly controlled and rationed by Israel.
Hamas breached the “fence” on October 7, 2023 and attacked Israel. Israel claimed that 1200 Israelis were killed, all of them unarmed civilians. It soon emerged that half of these deaths were from IDF tank and gunship fire. It also is increasingly coming to light that the Israeli authorities had prior knowledge of this attack. The IDF Intelligence branch have publicly admitted this because somebody hacked and published the official warning the Intelligence branch gave to the IDF on October 6/23 warning of an attack but advising that it would only be “a drill". This is no secret in Israel.
On October 8, 2023 the Israeli Defense Minister, General Gallant, shut off all food, water and fuel to Gaza, proclaiming that all Gazans are Hamas and as such are “human animals and we will deal with them as such.”
The IDF has bombed Gaza mercilessly since then and it is internationally recognized that at least 30,000 Gazans have been killed and 70% of the dead were women and children. Deaths from starvation, thirst and disease are in the thousands. This barbaric genocide has been denounced as such by the International Court of Justice. These are indisputable facts.
The nations surrounding Israel do not want a war. But their populations are furious against Israel. Somehow this conflict has to be brought to an end one way or another. Israel has 80 deliverable nukes and a government full of people crazy enough to use them.
Clear away the bullshit. The potential for global nuclear catastrophe is greater now than it ever was. That’s the issue. It’s everybody’s business.
I hope I didn't seem to be scolding you... I still had this in my email...
But I meant it to be reassuring and such. xo
I love your righteous indignation, it's just... perfect. Do you know who Judge Napolitano is? I think you'd like him... he's on Youtube and has the kind of guests that we love to hear from... He's pretty cool and I love people who love freedom and know the law...
Anyway, very good writing, as usual, m'dear. On the same page, and ... doesn't it seem like there's a big shift going on? It feels like more people are coming out and speaking up and decrying all this war-mongering literal INSANITY the US/UK is doing ... (France, too, c'est le dommage!)