"The perpetrators of the “Gaza Genocide” hoax may or may not believe a genocide is actually happening. If they do believe it, they are ignorant of either the definition of the term or what is happening in Gaza, or both. If they don’t believe it but use it as a weapon, they are sadists, not human rights activists."
I can't recall where I read it at this point, but a near majority of Canadians responding to a recent poll believe that the war in Gaza being waged by the IDF is a genocide, and given what gets aired on the CBC virtually daily, it's no surprise. Just a few days ago, CBC's Toronto radio affiliate aired an interview on its popular morning "drive to work" slot, Metro Morning, with Alex Neve, formerly Amnesty Canada's Secretary General (talk about a pretentious title for an NGO accountable to nobody to bestow on its highest ranks), and now teaching international law at Dalhousie and at one of Ottawa's universities (I don't recall which). Show host David Common did a lame job of trying to question Neve's evocation of the "genocide" charge, which Neve batted away by reference to some open letter signed by "more than 400 genocide and Holocaust scholars", as though that is necessarily the consensus opinion among such experts. Never raised by Common was the fact that the NGO that Neve once led in Canada is among those pressing for the amendment of the existing definition.
Just as galling, and here show host Common let it pass without comment, was Neve describing Palestinians in Israeli jails and the hostages still being held in Gaza as "captives". Many of the Palestinians that Hamas is trying to compel the release of through extortion were convicted of serious, violent crimes. Some of those already released in one of the "exchanges" was a Palestinian who had been released under the 2011 "exchange" that freed Gilad Shalit after almost five and a half years of being held underground in Gaza after being dragged across the border from his observation post, and deprived not only of a visit by the International Committee of the Red Cross, but of sunlight. The International Court of Justice's January 26, 2024 interim ruling certainly didn't see jailed Palestinians as equal to the hostages dragged into Gaza by Hamas-led terrorists, when it ruled only that Hamas had to release their hostages "immediately and without condition", and certainly Alex Neve knows that. But I'm sure very few Canadians have any idea about any of that, certainly not if they rely on the CBC to lay things out for them.
I want to scream when I hear politicians like our new minister of foreign affairs, Anita Anand, assert that "Israel has the right to defend itself", but is seemingly oblivious to what Hamas is demanding in order to agree to a ceasefire that Hamas will, inevitably break as it has done what -- six or seven times -- before it will release the last 50 or so hostages. Ditto for the "restraint" calls vis Iran and its race to acquire nuclear weapons on a scale that will far exceed what India, Pakistan or Israel possess.
In Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Christopher R. Browning writes the following about the Jozefow massacre of the Jews (1942):
“When the first salvo was heard from the woods, a terrible cry swept the marketplace as the collected Jews realized their fate. Thereafter, however, a quiet composure—indeed, in the words of German witnesses, an “unbelievable” and “astonishing” composure—settled over the Jews. If the victims were composed, the German officers grew increasingly agitated as it became clear that the pace of the executions was much too slow if they were to finish the job in one day. “Comments were repeatedly made, such as, ‘It’s not getting anywhere!’ and ‘It’s not going fast enough!’” (61).
The composure of the Jewish victim—this is the fantasy of the antisemite: that the Jew will collaborate with hate against them. Today’s antisemites seem to believe that as long as the hate is masked, however clumsily, the composure and collaboration of the Jew can be secured. But antisemites today will have to learn to live with a new reality—that their agendas will truly not be “getting anywhere.”
When someone cares more about the children than their own parents, this care is going to be used as leverage against those virtuous people. This literally happened to me with my roommate's dog, whom I ended up walking every day. Of course it's quite a bit worse than that here since my roommate wouldn't have let her dog die just to accuse me of not caring. She was lazy, not an animal abuser.
Dear Pat,
What I love about you, includes but is not limited to:
>>Your deep historical knowledge,
>>Your moral clarity,
>>Your clear and heartfelt prose.
I love reading your articles.
And I love reading your comments. Haha. Thanks Liv. I appreciate your kindness. Thanks for reading.
DITTO! 🩵
Spot on, Pat. Bravo!
I love this entire article.
Clarity is key. There is no doubt what the mullahs mean by "Death to Israel." There is no doubt what Israeli's mean by "Am Yisrael Chai"
"The perpetrators of the “Gaza Genocide” hoax may or may not believe a genocide is actually happening. If they do believe it, they are ignorant of either the definition of the term or what is happening in Gaza, or both. If they don’t believe it but use it as a weapon, they are sadists, not human rights activists."
I can't recall where I read it at this point, but a near majority of Canadians responding to a recent poll believe that the war in Gaza being waged by the IDF is a genocide, and given what gets aired on the CBC virtually daily, it's no surprise. Just a few days ago, CBC's Toronto radio affiliate aired an interview on its popular morning "drive to work" slot, Metro Morning, with Alex Neve, formerly Amnesty Canada's Secretary General (talk about a pretentious title for an NGO accountable to nobody to bestow on its highest ranks), and now teaching international law at Dalhousie and at one of Ottawa's universities (I don't recall which). Show host David Common did a lame job of trying to question Neve's evocation of the "genocide" charge, which Neve batted away by reference to some open letter signed by "more than 400 genocide and Holocaust scholars", as though that is necessarily the consensus opinion among such experts. Never raised by Common was the fact that the NGO that Neve once led in Canada is among those pressing for the amendment of the existing definition.
Just as galling, and here show host Common let it pass without comment, was Neve describing Palestinians in Israeli jails and the hostages still being held in Gaza as "captives". Many of the Palestinians that Hamas is trying to compel the release of through extortion were convicted of serious, violent crimes. Some of those already released in one of the "exchanges" was a Palestinian who had been released under the 2011 "exchange" that freed Gilad Shalit after almost five and a half years of being held underground in Gaza after being dragged across the border from his observation post, and deprived not only of a visit by the International Committee of the Red Cross, but of sunlight. The International Court of Justice's January 26, 2024 interim ruling certainly didn't see jailed Palestinians as equal to the hostages dragged into Gaza by Hamas-led terrorists, when it ruled only that Hamas had to release their hostages "immediately and without condition", and certainly Alex Neve knows that. But I'm sure very few Canadians have any idea about any of that, certainly not if they rely on the CBC to lay things out for them.
I want to scream when I hear politicians like our new minister of foreign affairs, Anita Anand, assert that "Israel has the right to defend itself", but is seemingly oblivious to what Hamas is demanding in order to agree to a ceasefire that Hamas will, inevitably break as it has done what -- six or seven times -- before it will release the last 50 or so hostages. Ditto for the "restraint" calls vis Iran and its race to acquire nuclear weapons on a scale that will far exceed what India, Pakistan or Israel possess.
In Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Christopher R. Browning writes the following about the Jozefow massacre of the Jews (1942):
“When the first salvo was heard from the woods, a terrible cry swept the marketplace as the collected Jews realized their fate. Thereafter, however, a quiet composure—indeed, in the words of German witnesses, an “unbelievable” and “astonishing” composure—settled over the Jews. If the victims were composed, the German officers grew increasingly agitated as it became clear that the pace of the executions was much too slow if they were to finish the job in one day. “Comments were repeatedly made, such as, ‘It’s not getting anywhere!’ and ‘It’s not going fast enough!’” (61).
The composure of the Jewish victim—this is the fantasy of the antisemite: that the Jew will collaborate with hate against them. Today’s antisemites seem to believe that as long as the hate is masked, however clumsily, the composure and collaboration of the Jew can be secured. But antisemites today will have to learn to live with a new reality—that their agendas will truly not be “getting anywhere.”
When someone cares more about the children than their own parents, this care is going to be used as leverage against those virtuous people. This literally happened to me with my roommate's dog, whom I ended up walking every day. Of course it's quite a bit worse than that here since my roommate wouldn't have let her dog die just to accuse me of not caring. She was lazy, not an animal abuser.