“The loss of any innocent life is a tragedy — Israeli or Palestinian. Hamas not only takes Israelis hostage, but also holds Palestinians hostage. Hamas is not only the enemy of Jews, but the enemy of Palestinians, of peace, of human rights, and an enemy of our common humanity.”
There is no convincing case that can be made against the objective and moral truth of those words. They were spoken this week by Irwin Cotler, Canada’s former justice minister and the founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, in support of Ottawa’s just-announced sanctions on the 11 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad warlords who directed the Oct. 7 atrocities in Israel.
