First of all I am fairly astounded at Canada's joining in with the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Norway in condemning/criticizing Israel for their behaviour in the West Bank namely allowing more illegal Israeli settlements. This article is in today's Waterloo Region Record. Secondly I am conflicted for a number of reasons. I have two very long time Canadian friends who are Jewish and whose loyalties and hearts are unequivocally pro Israel . I guess I would have thought that perhaps distance and time away from Israel combined with the last year and a half of death and destruction in Gaza might have somewhat at least softened their positions/opinions at least a little. That does not appear to be the case.
Then there is the cogent observation of a family member of mine that Hamas were currently in their sixteenth year of their four year elected term. Well that certainly caught my attention. How the heck can that be? But apparently that is exactly what it is. They were elected to a four year term in Gaza and at the end of that term they simply seized power. Hmm how does one square that circle when discussing either legitimacy or illegitimacy of a government and it's behaviour.
While no one can justify the murder of 1,200 Jewish mostly non-combatants, women and children that occurred late in 2023 by Hamas; then equally how does one justify the deaths of close to 50,000 Palestinian men, women and children by Israel since then? Yes while I believe that Israel have killed many Hamas members I do not accept that 50,000 people are merely "collateral" damage. That that is somehow O.K. because Hamas are embedded within the rest of the Palestinian community does not compute for me.
So what is the solution to both the current bloodshed and humanitarian disaster, much less to the long term road to peace and co-existence? Much brighter minds than mine have been working on this unsuccessfully both short term and long term. I just don't know.
both Israel and Hamas uses terrorism nowadays and they are both dead wrong in their ideology when killing offensively is chosen. Ironically election day is one day in many years for the people in which most of the rest of all the time the terrorist leaders spend almost all of their biased brains on plotting extermination of their enemies' lives or their property rights. Back in the good ole days it used to be the first one to start the fight by striking a blow who would be critically judged, nowadays in our retarded world TRUTH and FACTS do not seem to matter as much! Fight by proxy is by fake and fraudulent consensus the chosen method that will be used and tolerated until the TRUTH becomes evident for all to see for themselves.
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