For the second time this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took a more hawkish stance on Iran and its regional allies than Canada or the United States, pressing the Trudeau government Thursday to add the Houthis, the Iran-allied group in Yemen, to Ottawa’s list of terrorist entities.
Poilievre’s remarks came days after he said he backed Israel’s right to hit nuclear facilities in Iran.
Further thoughts on the reaction to the anti-Israel demonstration in Vancouver on the anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack…
The vast, vast majority of people I’ve seen react online and talked to in person expressed their anger and disappointment over what was done that day. They agreed that declaring “We are Hamas,” burning Canadian flags, and chanting “Death to Canada” are all unacceptable.
After setbacks in Lebanon and Gaza, Tehran is finding new ways to go after Israeli interests
Iran and its allies, battered by Israeli attacks and the killing of Hezbollah leaderHassan Nasrallah, are running out of options to strike back without risking a regional war that could set them back even further.
But there is one area where Western security agencies and experts fear Iran will try to hit Israel: by hiring criminal gangs in the West.
Iran has long used local militias to pursue its goals across the Middle East. In recent years, Tehran has exported that model to Europe, allying with drug lords and gangsters to go after Jewish or Israeli targets and other perceived opponents.
The Guardian has slammed a 7 October documentary for its depiction of the pogromists.
A new Channel 4 documentary about the events of 7 October lays bare the brutality that was meted out on Kibbutz Be’eri – one of the communities savaged by Hamas a year ago. Unsettling but important viewing, you might think. And yet the documentary has been criticised by the Guardian for ‘demonising Gazans’ – seemingly because it dared to depict Hamas’s horrors. The article has now been removed ‘pending review’.
Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier-General Esmail Qaani is alive and currently under investigation in Iran, the Middle East Eye reported on Thursday, citing several sources.
His whereabouts have been unknown since Israel’s Saturday strike in Beirut that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s presumed successor, Hashem Safieddine.
Khaled Mashal: ‘Iran assassinated Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran’
Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashal claimed in an interview with the Qatari Al Arabi news channel that Iran assassinated Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
September 1. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announce that the bodies of six hostages, who were abducted alive by Hamas on October 7, were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah. All of them had received recent gunshot wounds to the head.
Several Israeli politicians did not incriminate Hamas. Instead, they tried to incriminate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — as many, both inside Israel and outside it, have been trying do since he won election two years ago.
Anti-Semitic hate crime rose at nearly nine times the rate of anti-Muslim offences in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, official figures show.
The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes more than doubled, from 1,543 to 3,282 in the year to March 2024, a 113 per cent increase and the highest on record.
More than eight in 10 of the hate crimes were committed after the October 7 attack, rising from 95 recorded by police in September to 577 in October alone.
OTTAWA — Federal Liberals and New Democrats blasted Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Wednesday, saying his statement that Israel should proactively strike Iran’s nuclear facilities is disastrous foreign policy that would contravene international law and quash hope for peace in the Middle East.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told reporters Wednesday that Poilievre’s proposed pre-emptive strikes would trigger a broader war, and suggested he does not want harmony in the Mideast.
Pierre Poilievre on Iran: “If Israel were to stop that genocidal, theocratic, unstable government from acquiring nuclear weapons, it would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.” pic.twitter.com/YJ7q953JW9
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 8, 2024
Joly and Joe Biden are opposed to Poilievre’s position! That settles it.
B.C. protester who praised Hamas allowed to attend rallies again
A B.C. woman who was recorded praising Hamas as “heroic and brave” can return to protest rallies, authorities confirmed this week.
Charlotte Kates was arrested following a demonstration outside the Vancouver Art Gallery back in April, where videos also showed her participating in a chant of “Long live Oct. 7,” celebrating the Hamas attacks on Israel.
Protesters have tried to paste a photograph of a Gazan mother and child over a Picasso painting at the National Gallery in central London to demand a two-way arms embargo on Israel.
Two supporters of Youth Demand entered room 43 at the gallery just before midday.
BREAKING: IMAGE OF PALESTINIAN MOTHER AND CHILD REPLACES PICASSO'S 'MOTHERHOOD'
❌ 16,000 children have been killed. When will @Keir_Starmer stop fuelling Israel's war machine?
From Nov 11, young people will be disrupting their cities. Join them: https://t.co/rqU3OswTSi pic.twitter.com/gsppgLqAzc
— Youth Demand (@youth_demand) October 9, 2024
Get a load of this.
“Free Palestine” idiot throws red paint at $24.8 million Picasso painting in the name of Gaza.
She somehow fucking missed pic.twitter.com/RDxXXVrenZ
— Kosher (@K0sher_C0ckney) October 9, 2024
I was packing for a trip to Germany when the first reports of Hamas’ massacre of civilians began circulating online. Initially, what I saw fit the pattern of other Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis, and I went to bed that night believing the IDF would eliminate the perpetrators and that would be that.
They are on the losing side
One year after the October 7 massacre by Hamas in Israel, protesters chanting anti-Israel slogans stormed and smashed buildings at McGill, one of Canada’s premier universities. Later that same evening, on the other side of the country in Vancouver, pro-Hamas demonstrators burned Canadian flags on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery in downtown.
I am not optimistic.
I have spent the better part of 30 years in journalism misattributing to Voltaire the idea that I would defend free speech to the death, even if I disapproved of what was being said (it turns out it was a summary of Voltaire’s views by his biographer, Evelyn Beatrice Hall).
Yet, events since October 7th have revealed that there are, or should be, limits; that people cannot say things that incite real harm to others or society at large.
A demonstrator just lit a Canadian flag on fire… pic.twitter.com/btCfi1hku4
— Jarryd Jäger (@JarrydJaeger) October 8, 2024
Hezbollah backs ceasefire attempts as Israel continues to target its leadership
Hezbollah said it supported efforts to secure a ceasefire with Israel as the IDF continued to target its top leadership and the two armies sharply increased their bombardments.
“After the issue of a ceasefire takes shape, and once diplomacy can achieve it, all of the other details can be discussed and decisions can be taken,” Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said on Tuesday. “If the enemy [Israel] continues its war, then the battlefield will decide.”
h/t Marc
