As the notable saying goes, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” For each war that Hamas started against Israel, and the Hezbollah/Lebanon war as well, once Israel begins to gain the upper hand and comes within reach of defeating the enemy that hates them, the protests begin and the world mourns the lost lives, at least the lost Palestinian lives, for too much of the world has already forgotten the inhuman atrocities of Oct 7 against Israeli babes and children.
All the marches with thousands of waving Palestinian and Hamas flags, with their disruption and threatening of Jewish lives the world over, have proven to be highly effective, influencing governments that are more concerned with election votes or actually have a proclivity to support terrorist organizations.
Suddenly people care about Palestinians. Really? Where were they during the past fifteen years since Hamas violently defeated the PLO and turned life for ordinary Gazans into a hellhole? Ah yes, of course, busy blaming Israel while funding Hamas and enabling it to build attack tunnels under the homes and hospitals of those same Palestinians they say they care so much about, and allowing Hamas to rearm itself so that one day it can again attack Israel, forcing it to retaliate and once more become the poster child of evil, encouraging yet more world hatred.
These peaceful protestors for Palestinian lives apparently care even less about the Israeli captives because they don’t demand that Hamas releases them before any ceasefire can be considered. Spin it any way you want, but if you call for a ceasefire, you are calling for the resumption of Hamas’s atrocities against its own people and the continued destruction of Israel and Jewish people at home and abroad. You don’t really care for Palestinians, and you hate their Jewish neighbours.
“Your land is in Europe” (from NP Comment)
In Montreal Canada, Palestinian supporters ganged up on outnumbered Jewish students, telling them that they belonged in Europe, and to “Go back to Poland, sharmouta,” a less than enlightened remark uttered by Yanise Arab, a U of Montreal humanities professor, no less. The entire, ugly incident is a rich study in irony:
*The humanities now preach the inhumanities.
* This man, Yanise Arab, who might well be an immigrant, is telling young Jews, some of whom might be second or third generation Canadians, that they should leave the country: not Israel, but Canada, their birth land. He now has “colonized” Canada himself but would control who can stay and who must leave.
* A 2016 Pew research study states that an unprecedented number of Muslim asylum seekers fleeing war torn Syria and other Muslim lands represent almost 5% of the population, more than 25 million people, spread across Europe, as of seven years ago. To suggest that the Jews belong in Europe is not likely to be a workable solution.
*It is now a popular slogan to Resist Colonization from Palestine to Turtle Island, the aboriginal name for the lands that are now Canada. In other words, Canadians, like the Israelis (who actually predate Arabs by more than a millennium, but never mind), are occupiers and oppressors and should give the lands back to the original settlers. Yet here they are, these ‘peaceful protestors for justice,’ themselves living in Canada, making them, dare it be said – colonial settlers! In the spirit of their beliefs, should they not leave? That could be difficult, however, for if they choose Gaza, well, there’s a war on, so maybe they might leave for Europe? But they just told the Jews to go there, so that’s not good either. They might have to continue to colonize Canada.
* It’s a rich irony that the world demands Israel makes a cessation of hostilities with an entity that wants to destroy it. How do you do that in any sane way? Do you shake hands with the person who wants to kill you and continues to threaten to do so? The U.S. and Europe offer no solutions or protections for Israel. It is a cliché to quote Albert Einstein, who might or might not have actually said, “It’s insanity to repeat the same thing over and over and expect different results:” Israel has entered into ceasefires before with Hamas. October 7 was the result of the last one. Why would the results be any different this time? In fact, If there is a ceasefire, the following will likely occur:
-Before the proverbial ink has even dried on the agreement, Hamas and its supporters will declare a victory. Even with Gaza in ruins, they will celebrate triumphantly. Pro-Palestinian supporters worldwide will engage in marches and protests of celebration that will not necessarily be peaceful despite having achieved their aim.
It’s ironic to declare victory when you are in tatters, but the Hamas war strategy was to survive, and they will have done that. They will brag that Israel was unable to destroy them and the world will then pour more money than ever into Gaza and, of course, provide lots more cement for tunnels. To use the WEF cliché, now mostly disused, thank goodness, they will “Build back better.” And time is always on their side.
More ironic, is that this is one thing on which Hamas and most Israelis will agree. Israelis know that the world will rebuild Hamas and the Gaza strip, rearm it, constrain Israel and blame them in the world courts, further weakening and isolating Israel.
They know too, that one day there will be another October 7, and that it will be worse. And that’s when irony becomes tragedy.
Brilliant article. This is a must read.