“Oct 7 2023”

The Biden Administration has been pressuring Israel to agree to “humanitarian pauses” in the war against the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group, whose members carried out the October 7 massacre in which 1,400 Israelis were murdered and thousands more wounded. Hamas has also kidnapped more than 240 Israelis into the Gaza Strip, including toddlers, women and the elderly.

By calling for “humanitarian pauses” in the war, the Biden Administration is throwing a lifeline to Hamas. A pause or a ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup and prepare new attacks against Israelis.

“We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do it twice and three times. The al-Aqsa Deluge (the name Hamas gave its October onslaught) is just the first time … Nobody should blame us for the things we do on Oct. 7, Oct. 10, October one-million. Everything we do is justified.”

— Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s political bureau and former Hamas deputy foreign minister, in an interview last week on Lebanese TV.

Another journalist whose bubble was burst. Shocked she is at the “Bigots” hatred for Israel.

We shouldn’t say we told you so, but we told you so.

Canada and other countries have seen a steady stream of protests against Israel and in support of Palestine since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and Israel’s subsequent declaration of war. Groups of various ideological mantles have been driving the movement, calling for the destruction of Israel and saying Canada is complicit in “genocide.”

Pro-Palestinian, leftist, and student groups are organizing actions, sometimes jointly, and use social media to announce events and share their messages.

A 30-year veteran of Canada’s intelligence community sees the scale and regularity of the protests as emerging from a combination of simmering discontent and skilled organizing.

For Israeli satirists, the BBC’s coverage of the Hamas conflict was simply too good to resist.

In a sketch on Eretz Nehederet, Israel’s answer to Saturday Night Live, actors lampooned the British broadcaster’s coverage of a rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza with a spoof news bulletin.

“More, more,” urges the stern-looking presenter, clad in a blonde wig, as the number of alleged fatalities from the attack jumps randomly higher. “We love Hamas,” reads the scrolling text below.

Satirical BBC News report:

Israeli satirical artist Eretz Nehederet mocks BBC News. pic.twitter.com/MP6qM46cvO

— Edward (@DonKlericuzio) October 28, 2023

"Columbia Untisemity": Israel's No. 1 Satire program mocks the support for Hamas on college campuses@mulisegev@Eretz_Nehederet pic.twitter.com/v3BogKbS5y

— Yonit Levi (@LeviYonit) November 5, 2023

A hospital in Gaza funded by foreign Muslim donors was custom-built with tunnels for Hamas terrorists to use, Israel claimed on Sunday.

The Israel Defense Forces produced video evidence that it said proved that two hospitals in Gaza, funded by donors from Qatar and Indonesia, were equipped with underground tunnels that were part of Hamas’s “terror Metro”.

The IDF alleged that Hamas fighters had opened fire on Israeli troops from the buildings of Gaza’s Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Hospital, built by Qatar’s former ruler in 2016.

This was not Germany in the 1930s, but Canada on Nov. 4, 2023.

In Ottawa this Saturday, there was a swastika outside the Parliament buildings, while in Toronto, there was an Iranian-regime flag on the streets and people also defaced a Jewish-owned business.

Threats have gone virtually unchallenged at anti-Israel protests throughout the country, while the innocent have been penalized.

In 1975’s The Return of the Pink Panther, French inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) stands outside a bank, so busy reprimanding a blind busker (really a fully sighted lookout) for not having a license that he fails to notice that inside a robbery is taking place. When the robbers emerge, Clouseau mistakes them for members of the public and assists them into their vehicle. When the bank manager runs out, aiming his gun at the getaway car, Clouseau beats him over the head with his baton.

In the last 15 years, Islamic political interests have dug deep into New York City politics. What does that mean? Beyond the obvious, political power, money. That’s what the currency of power comes down to anyway. And that means government contracts going to so-called community groups. More Muslims living in NYC meant more money was going into Islamist organizations. And much like funding Hamas, that adds up to pro-Hamas rallies.

One of the things the left is desperately downplaying as it demands that Israel allow Hamas and its supporters to go unpunished and, ideally, cede to the Arabs the entire land of Israel is the fact that the surrounding Arab nations are refusing to take Gazans in as refugees. The reason is that nobody wants these “Palestinian” Arabs who have proven to be as destructive to Arab nations as they are to Israel.

‘We are the victims… therefore nobody should blame us for the things we do’

“We are the victims… therefore nobody should blame us for the things we do.”

Who do you think said this? Some blue-haired campus activist who’s convinced they’re suffering from structural oppression? A trans campaigner, perhaps, who thinks being misgendered is an act of violence? Maybe some other social justice type who feels victimised by everything from statues of old colonialists to un-PC jokes?

There are many reasons for any sane person to regret the existence of Hamas, the savage Sunni Muslim militia that controls the Gaza Strip in Southern Israel. Founded in 1987, the group has specialized in terror attacks against Israelis while maintaining vigorous side-concessions fomenting anti-Western sentiment and keeping their own populace in a state of wretched poverty.

Such are the convoluted workings of providence, however, that the world may eventually find itself grimly grateful for what one percipient observer called “the Sabbath Massacres”: the barbaric slaughter perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which left some 1,400 dead, thousands wounded, and more than 200 kidnapped and held hostage in Gaza.

The Rafah crossing, along the border dividing the Gaza Strip from Egypt and the only land exit from the war-torn Palestinian territory that’s not controlled by Israel, remained closed Sunday, a day after evacuations were suspended.

That development has left hundreds of Canadians who want to leave Gaza in limbo. Global Affairs Canada (GAC) had previously told them they could be allowed into Egypt as early as Sunday, but the crossing has remained closed all weekend.

Samah Al-Sabbagh, speaking Sunday to CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live from London, Ont., said her 73-year-old father is on the Global Affairs list to leave Gaza, but he remains in Gaza and his health is deteriorating.