Israeli ministry ‘concept paper’ proposes transferring Gaza’s Hamas Supporters to Egypt’s Sinai, with Canada as a possible final destination

Israeli ministry ‘concept paper’ proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Egypt’s Sinai, with Canada as a possible final destination

JERUSALEM – An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip’s(opens in a new tab) 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office played down the report compiled by the Intelligence Ministry as a hypothetical exercise — a “concept paper.” But its conclusions deepened long-standing Egyptian fears that Israel wants to make Gaza into Egypt’s problem, and revived for Palestinians memories of their greatest trauma — the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of people who fled or were forced from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.

… Egypt would not necessarily be the Palestinian refugees’ last stop. The document speaks about Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates supporting the plan either financially, or by taking in uprooted residents of Gaza as refugees and in the long term as citizens. Canada’s “lenient” immigration practices also make it a potential resettlement target, the document adds.


No thanks. Stupid of Israel to suggest Canada be used as a doormat for Hamas supporters. There is precedent however as they did dump their unwanted Eritreans in Canada.

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Lakehead School Board files court order demanding Reddit release user identities

THUNDER BAY – The Lakehead District School Board is taking legal action against a social media site over posts it says are defamatory.

The school board has filed a court order demanding Reddit Canada disclose information to identify users who have made posts on the platform about the school board and staff.

The order would compel Reddit Canada to remove the posts from the platform.

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‘A Time for War’: Netanyahu Rejects Calls for Ceasefire, Citing U.S. Response to 9/11, Pearl Harbor

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu definitively stated in a Monday speech that his nation will not stand down in its retributive assault against Hamas, more than three weeks after the terrorist group’s invasion of Israel.

“Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities after the horrific attacks of October 7,” Netanyahu told the foreign press on Monday. “Calls for a ceasefire are a call for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terror, to surrender to barbarism. That will not happen. Ladies and gentlemen, the Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. This is a time for war.”

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Terrorist-supporters in America are our enemy

America is probably the most diverse nation on earth in terms of race, ethnicity, and religion. There is a place here for everybody who shares our values and culture, including respect for the rights of those who do not look like us or pray like us (if at all). There is, however, no place here for “diverse” value systems that support violence, discrimination, misogyny, and similar things that belong in backward Dark Age societies.

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Hollywood and Silicon Valley’s Jews are silent on Israel

California’s captains of industry are turning a blind eye to the conflict

Back in the early days of California’s ascendancy, the state was described as “the Jews’ early paradise”, a place where the lack of social norms, and enormous opportunities, were ideal for enterprising people unmoored from conventional business ties. In the years ahead, Jews spearheaded much of California’s banking, garment and later entertainment businesses.

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Israel’s President: ‘The Hamas Attack Does Not Represent Islam’

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog had some reassuring news for the world on Thursday: the appallingly ghastly and brutal Hamas attack on Israel doesn’t represent Islam. Herzog thus becomes the latest in a long, long line of non-Muslim leaders who are quick to assure us that the latest atrocity has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with what we all know and love as the warm and cuddly religion of peace.

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The Apocalypse According to J.R.R. Tolkien

In a famous lecture delivered in 1939 at the University of St. Andrews, On Fairy-Stories, J.R.R. Tolkien stated one of his profound convictions: “The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-story.” Tolkien’s idea anticipates Northrop Frye’s theory from The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, which states that all universal literary “archetypes” are contained within the Holy Scriptures. This thesis prompts us to reflect on the possible influence of the Bible in general, and the Gospels in particular, on Tolkien’s literary creations.

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Booby traps, hidden entrances and 130-feet deep: Israeli soldiers with experience of fighting Hamas’s ‘spider’s web’ tunnel system describe challenge facing IDF

They call it the ‘Hamas Metro’ and according to the terrorist group’s leader Yahya Sinwar, the network of tunnels under the tiny enclave extend for 310 miles – or 25 per cent longer than the entire London Underground.

If Israel is to succeed in its stated aim of ‘destroying’ Hamas, then finding and wiping out these tunnels with concealed entrances inside houses, schools and mosques, is a vital part of the mission, but one which carries inherent risks.

The network has been described as a ‘spider’s web’ by recently-released hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, an 85-year-old woman held for more than two weeks.

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We must defend the right to hate

Hamas apologists are entitled to free speech, too.

Virulently anti-Semitic speeches and demonstrations celebrating the massacre of Jews demand more from free-speech advocates than reflexive calls for ‘freedom for the speech you hate’. They demand empathy for the fearful targets of murderous hate, who cannot understand our defence of the right to indulge in it. But a commitment to free speech values everyone’s freedom of conscience, and it is threatened by extreme efforts to punish pro-Hamas protesters for their political advocacy, however inhumane. People have a right to hate.

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Federal Court dismisses applications against Trudeau’s 2020 firearms ban

OTTAWA – The Federal Court today dismissed a legal challenge to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s May 2020 regulations banning some 1,500 styles of firearms.

Justice Catherine Kane says in a decision released today that the applicants raised issues around the matter of guns and public safety but the court only explored the question of whether Trudeau’s cabinet went beyond its powers in passing the regulations.

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Northwestern Ont. First Nation ‘alerted’ to 22 areas of potential historic remains

WAUZHUSHK ONIGUM NATION – A First Nation in northwestern Ontario says it has found 22 areas where human remains may be buried at the site of a former residential school.

The Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, near Kenora, Ont., was “alerted” to the areas at the site of the former St. Mary’s Residential School(opens in a new tab) in mid-August after using a cadaver dog to conduct ground searches in and around the old school grounds.

Opened in 1897 at Rat Portage in northwestern Ontario this school was first known as the Rat Portage Boarding School, then the Kenora Boarding School and then St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic School. From 1938 it was known as St. Mary’s School. Early in its history, the local band negotiated an agreement that students would not be converted to Catholicism against their parent’s will.

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Poilievre calls on Liberals to exempt all forms of home heating from carbon price

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberals to exempt all forms of home heating from the carbon price, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an exemption for three years that only applies to home heating oil.

The federal government announced last week that it is increasing the carbon price rebate for rural Canadians and lifting the carbon price off home heating oil entirely for the next three years.

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