Canada must use its clout to demand Israel stop collective punishment
… But Israel is not fighting Nazis. Naziism was a far graver threat to Jews. And it was based on pure racism, not on a battle over land — which, unlike racism, is possibly negotiable.
Bennett and others might prefer to characterize Israel as fighting Nazis because that makes it easier to justify relentlessly bombing and cutting off water and electricity to Palestinian civilians, effectively treating them as Nazis to be obliterated.
This amounts to collective punishment, a war crime under international law. It is also deeply unfair to the 2.3 million Gazans — half of them children — who clearly had no role in the highly secretive Hamas attack.
Ms. McQuaig should be asked her interpretation of “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” and the characterization of baby killing as “resistance” by so many of our fellow “Canadians.”
