My error. I did not see the ICC’s second press release:
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I issues warrant of arrest for Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif) Press Release by ICC, Nov 21, 2024
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The Prosecution had initially filed applications for warrants of arrest for two other senior leaders of Hamas, namely Mr Ismail Haniyeh and Mr Yahya Sinwar. Following confirmation of their deaths, the Chamber granted the withdrawal of the applications on 9 August 2024 and 25 October 2024, respectively. With respect to Mr Deif, the Prosecution indicated that it would continue to gather information with respect to his reported death. On 15 November 2024, the Prosecution, referring to information from both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities, notified the Chamber that it is not in a position to determine whether Mr Deif has been killed or remains alive. Therefore, the Chamber issues the present warrant of arrest. The Prosecution also noted that it continues to investigate the crimes in the ongoing conflict and envisions that further applications for warrants of arrest will be submitted. …
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Priyamvada Gopal @PriyamvadaGopal:
To every student and young person who stood up on university campuses against what are now officially deemed war crimes: you are heroes and your persecutors are trash
Must watch:
Benjamin Netanyahu on the right in above screen grab
CHAOS in the Knesset!: MK Ayman Odeh calls Netanyahu a SERIAL KILLER!
Amir Attaran@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Some people call Israel a Jewish state. I call it organized crime—and here are the arrest warrants at last.
Noura Erakat@4noura:
For the liberals who feign concern 4 Palestinians but insist it is Hamas’s fault: Israelis shot children in the head & chest, sent quadcopters to shoot the injured, destroyed dialysis machines, denied everyone safe quarter. Children are the target, not the collateral damage.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt@FranceskAlbs:
I’m pleased @FrontBurnerCBC shared this interview, which sheds light on a persistent fallacy of Western media: accepting narratives shaped by the Israeli government/army as absolute truth. It was striking how the journalist persistently framed my statements as mere “beliefs” instead of what they are—evidence-based expert opinions grounded in facts & int’l law. Even the Nakba was labeled “contested” simply because the State of Israel dismisses it. Since when legal interpretations and obective assessments depend on the validation of those involved?
Khalissee@Kahlissee:
Epstein Lawyer and Notorious GENOCIDE SUPPORTER Alan Dershowitz gets asked “What did you and your wife do on Epstein’s Island?”
Just another sleazy old white man racist lying pedophile genocide-aiding lawyer? Fuck, lawyers give me the creeps now.
Photo of tent facade in Mawasi, Khan Yunis:
“Peace to a land created for peace and which has never seen peace”…
@nccm:
Canada is a founding signatory in the creation of the International Criminal Court.
With the ICC issuing arrest warrants for the trial of Netanyahu and other officials, Canada must respect the rule of law and signal loud and clear that we respect the arrest warrants being issued.
We cannot equivocate when it comes to upholding the international rules based order.
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant Press Release by the ICC
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejecting challenges by the State of Israel (‘Israel’) brought under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute (the ‘Statute’). It also issued warrants of arrest for Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant.
Decisions on requests by the State of Israel
The Chamber ruled on two requests submitted by the Israel on 26 September 2024. In the first request, Israel challenged the Court’s jurisdiction over the Situation in the State of Palestine in general, and over Israeli nationals more specifically, on the basis of article 19(2) of the Statute. In the second request, Israel requested that the Chamber order the Prosecution to provide a new notification of the initiation of an investigation to its authorities under article 18(1) of the Statute. Israel also requested the Chamber to halt any proceedings before the Court in the relevant situation, including the consideration of the applications for warrants of arrest for Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, submitted by the Prosecution on 20 May 2024.
As to the first challenge, the Chamber noted that the acceptance by Israel of the Court’s jurisdiction is not required, as the Court can exercise its jurisdiction on the basis of territorial jurisdiction of Palestine, as determined by Pre-Trial Chamber I in a previous composition. Furthermore, the Chamber considered that pursuant to article 19(1) of the Statute, States are not entitled to challenge the Court’s jurisdiction under article 19(2) prior to the issuance of a warrant of arrest. Thus Israel’s challenge is premature. This is without prejudice to any future possible challenges to the Court’s jurisdiction and/or admissibility of any particular case.
The Chamber also rejected Israel’s request under article 18(1) of the Statute. The Chamber recalled that the Prosecution notified Israel of the initiation of an investigation in 2021. At that time, despite a clarification request by the Prosecution, Israel elected not to pursue any request for deferral of the investigation. Further, the Chamber considered that the parameters of the investigation in the situation have remained the same and, as a consequence, no new notification to the State of Israel was required. In light of this, the judges found that there was no reason to halt the consideration of the applications for warrants of arrest.
Decision on Israel’s request for an order to the Prosecution to give an Article 18(1) notice
Warrants of arrest
The Chamber issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.
The arrest warrants are classified as ‘secret’, in order to protect witnesses and to safeguard the conduct of the investigations. However, the Chamber decided to release the information below since conduct similar to that addressed in the warrant of arrest appears to be ongoing. Moreover, the Chamber considers it to be in the interest of victims and their families that they are made aware of the warrants’ existence.
At the outset, the Chamber considered that the alleged conduct of Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant falls within the jurisdiction of the Court. The Chamber recalled that, in a previous composition, it already decided that the Court’s jurisdiction in the situation extended to Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Furthermore, the Chamber declined to use its discretionary proprio motu powers to determine the admissibility of the two cases at this stage. This is without prejudice to any determination as to the jurisdiction and admissibility of the cases at a later stage.
With regard to the crimes, the Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu, born on 21 October 1949, Prime Minister of Israel at the time of the relevant conduct, and Mr Gallant, born on 8 November 1958, Minister of Defence of Israel at the time of the alleged conduct, each bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.
The Chamber also found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant each bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population.
Alleged crimes
The Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that during the relevant time, international humanitarian law related to international armed conflict between Israel and Palestine applied. This is because they are two High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and because Israel occupies at least parts of Palestine. The Chamber also found that the law related to non-international armed conflict applied to the fighting between Israel and Hamas. The Chamber found that the alleged conduct of Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant concerned the activities of Israeli government bodies and the armed forces against the civilian population in Palestine, more specifically civilians in Gaza. It therefore concerned the relationship between two parties to an international armed conflict, as well as the relationship between an occupying power and the population in occupied territory. For these reasons, with regards to war crimes, the Chamber found it appropriate to issue the arrest warrants pursuant to the law of international armed conflict. The Chamber also found that the alleged crimes against humanity were part of a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of Gaza.
The Chamber considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity, from at least 8 October 2023 to 20 May 2024. This finding is based on the role of Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant in impeding humanitarian aid in violation of international humanitarian law and their failure to facilitate relief by all means at its disposal. The Chamber found that their conduct led to the disruption of the ability of humanitarian organisations to provide food and other essential goods to the population in need in Gaza. The aforementioned restrictions together with cutting off electricity and reducing fuel supply also had a severe impact on the availability of water in Gaza and the ability of hospitals to provide medical care.
The Chamber also noted that decisions allowing or increasing humanitarian assistance into Gaza were often conditional. They were not made to fulfil Israel’s obligations under international humanitarian law or to ensure that the civilian population in Gaza would be adequately supplied with goods in need. In fact, they were a response to the pressure of the international community or requests by the United States of America. In any event, the increases in humanitarian assistance were not sufficient to improve the population’s access to essential goods.
Furthermore, the Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that no clear military need or other justification under international humanitarian law could be identified for the restrictions placed on access for humanitarian relief operations. Despite warnings and appeals made by, inter alia, the UN Security Council, UN Secretary General, States, and governmental and civil society organisations about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, only minimal humanitarian assistance was authorised. In this regard, the Chamber considered the prolonged period of deprivation and Mr Netanyahu’s statement connecting the halt in the essential goods and humanitarian aid with the goals of war.
The Chamber therefore found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant bear criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare.
The Chamber found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the lack of food, water, electricity and fuel, and specific medical supplies, created conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the civilian population in Gaza, which resulted in the death of civilians, including children due to malnutrition and dehydration. On the basis of material presented by the Prosecution covering the period until 20 May 2024, the Chamber could not determine that all elements of the crime against humanity of extermination were met. However, the Chamber did find that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the crime against humanity of murder was committed in relation to these victims.
In addition, by intentionally limiting or preventing medical supplies and medicine from getting into Gaza, in particular anaesthetics and anaesthesia machines, the two individuals are also responsible for inflicting great suffering by means of inhumane acts on persons in need of treatment. Doctors were forced to operate on wounded persons and carry out amputations, including on children, without anaesthetics, and/or were forced to use inadequate and unsafe means to sedate patients, causing these persons extreme pain and suffering. This amounts to the crime against humanity of other inhumane acts.
The Chamber also found reasonable grounds to believe that the abovementioned conduct deprived a significant portion of the civilian population in Gaza of their fundamental rights, including the rights to life and health, and that the population was targeted based on political and/or national grounds. It therefore found that the crime against humanity of persecution was committed.
Finally, the Chamber assessed that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population of Gaza. In this regard, the Chamber found that the material provided by the Prosecution only allowed it to make findings on two incidents that qualified as attacks that were intentionally directed against civilians. Reasonable grounds to believe exist that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant, despite having measures available to them to prevent or repress the commission of crimes or ensure the submittal of the matter to the competent authorities, failed to do so.
Background
On 1 January 2015, The State of Palestine lodged a declaration under article 12(3) of the Rome Statute accepting jurisdiction of the Court since 13 June 2014.
On 2 January 2015, The State of Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute by depositing its instrument of accession with the UN Secretary-General. The Rome Statute entered into force for The State of Palestine on 1 April 2015.
On 22 May 2018, pursuant to articles 13(a) and 14 of the Rome Statute, The State of Palestine referred to the Prosecutor the Situation since 13 June 2014, with no end date.
On 3 March 2021, the Prosecutor announced the opening of the investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine. This followed Pre-Trial Chamber I’s decision on 5 February 2021 that the Court could exercise its criminal jurisdiction in the Situation and, by majority, that the territorial scope of this jurisdiction extends to Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
On 17 November 2023, the Office of the Prosecutor received a further referral of the Situation in the State of Palestine, from South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros, and Djibouti, and on 18 January 2024, the Republic of Chile and the United Mexican State additionally submitted a referral to the Prosecutor with respect to the situation in The State of Palestine.
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Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I issues warrant of arrest for Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif) Press Release by ICC, Nov 21, 2024
The ICC arrest warrant will hang over Netanyahu for the rest of his life by Michael Byers, Nov 21., 2024, The Globe and Mail
CORRECTION The Globe did not misrepresent the ICC’s press releases. My apologies.
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Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries, ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes, Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries by Andrew Roth and Julian Borger, Nov 21, 2024, The Guardian
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas leader Mohammed Deif My apologies to The Guardian. The ICC did issue arrest warrant for M. Deif (if still alive).for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war.
The warrants put Netanyahu and Gallant at risk of arrest if they travel abroad. There have been unconfirmed reports that Deif may have been killed by Israel.
The court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, had requested the arrest warrants in May, saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant bore “criminal responsibility” for causing mass starvation in Gaza that constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
On Thursday the court said it had found reasonable grounds to believe that Deif was responsible for crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder, torture, rape and hostage taking relating to the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel in which fighters killed more than 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 250.Media is complicit when they do not report that Netanyahu finances Hamas and considers it an “asset” and IDF’s Hannibal Directive killed many Israelis that day, pinning the blame on Hamas, of course.
The US has previously welcomed ICC war crimes warrants against Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials for atrocities committed in Ukraine, while denouncing the court’s pursuit of Netanyahu and Gallant, a mixed stance which has exposed the Biden administration to accusations of double standards from many UN members, particularly from the global south.
The three-judge panel wrote in its unanimous decision to issue warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: “The chamber considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity.”
Israel has rejected the jurisdiction of the court, which is based in The Hague, and denies war crimes in Gaza. The ICC said on Thursday that Israel’s acceptance of the court’s jurisdiction was not required.Know any honest serial kid killers?
The Israeli foreign ministry said in September that it had submitted two legal briefs challenging the ICC’s jurisdiction and arguing that the court did not provide Israel with the opportunity to investigate the allegations itself before requesting the warrants.Pfft!Just like in Aberta Canada, where criminal oil and gas companies investigate themselves after lying and intentionally contaminating community drinking water supplies! Would such criminals find themselves guilty? Never.
Some member states have ignored ICC warrants before, but Netanyahu and Gallant would nonetheless risk arrest if they travelled to any country that had signed the 1998 Rome statute.
An ICC statement said of Deif that “the chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Deif … is responsible for the crimes against humanity of murder, extermination, torture and rape and other form of sexual violence, as well as the war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture, taking hostages, outrages upon personal dignity, and rape and other forms of sexual violence”.
Khan had also sought warrants for two other senior Hamas figures, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, but they were both killed in the conflict. Israel has said it has also killed Deif in an airstrike, but Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied this.
Israel’s opposition leaders fiercely criticised the ICC’s move. Benny Gantz, a retired general and political rival to Netanyahu, condemned the decision, saying it showed “moral blindness” and was a “shameful stain of historic proportion that will never be forgotten”. Yair Lapid, another opposition leader, called it a “prize for terror”.
The warrants have been issued at a sensitive moment for Khan, who is facing an external investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. The inquiry will examine the allegations against the prosecutor, which, the Guardian reported last month, include claims of unwanted sexual touching and “abuse” over an extended period, as well as coercive behaviour and abuse of authority.
Khan, 54, has denied the allegations and said he will cooperate with the investigation. The alleged victim, an ICC lawyer in her 30s, has previously declined to comment.
The arrest warrants could increase the external pressure on Netanyahu’s government as the US seeks to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but could well strengthen the prime minister’s political position in Israel in the short term, as most Israelis reject the ICC’s jurisdiction as interference in their country’s internal affairs.
Joe Biden has said he does not believe Netanyahu is doing enough to secure a ceasefire, after the Israeli leader vowed not to compromise over Israeli control over strategic territory inside Gaza. Netanyahu has accused Hamas of failing to negotiate in good faith.
Brilliant 48 second slap down by Francesca!
World Economic Forum’s blub on genocide enabler Steve Harper:
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Economics, University of Calgary. 2002, Leader of the Opposition; co-founded Conservative Party and won party leadership; 2006, Prime Minister of Canada. Recipient of awards: Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service; first Canadian to be awarded B’nai Brith Presidential Gold Medallion for Humanitarianism (2008).
MacKay cartoon of Bibi Netanyahu and Steve Harper in love running holding hands through Israel’s genocided destroyed Palestine where politicians and other evil sods (including in Canada) sell stolen Palestinian lands for profit to enable more rape and pillage of Palestinians.
Stephen Harper’s ‘moral clarity’ in defence of Israeli exceptionalism, Like most Western leaders, Harper has denigrated historical context and justified Israeli aggression against the Palestinians by Morgan Duchesney, November 20, 2024, Canadian Dimension
A Toronto Sun editorial recently praised Stephen Harper’s “moral clarity” on current events in the Middle East. After quitting politics in 2015 the former Canadian prime minister worked with American Zionist billionaire and Trump backer Sheldon Adelson before serving on the boards of organizations like the Friends of Israel Initiative. In addition to his graduate degree in economics, Harper received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University, presumably for his faithful commitment to Israeli exceptionalism.
For the moment, let’s table the current Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) slaughter of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians and consider Harper’s past attitude to Israel’s military aggression. For example, Harper once described Israel’s brutal 2006 invasion of Lebanon as “measured” and justified while his government simultaneously demeaned Lebanese Canadians desperate to flee Israeli bombs.
Using its illegal Dahiya doctrine of disproportionate force and collective punishment of civilians, the IDF’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon killed 1,100 and wounded 4,400. According to a Human Rights Watch report, 80 percent of those casualties were civilians who had the misfortune of living near Hezbollah units and Palestinian refugee camps.
While IDF losses were light in 2006, Hezbollah surprised the world by damaging or destroying over 50 advanced Israeli tanks, an impressive feat that caused an IDF retreat. Unfortunately for Israel conscripts, today’s IDF seems to have learned nothing from that painful lesson.
Harper would never admit he’s a fucking hide in the closet pathetic coward and cruel liar that Hezbollah was created in the early 1980s to protect Lebanon from Israeli efforts to invade that country and destroy Palestinian resistance groups based in border-area refugee camps. Those Palestinians refugees had fled Palestine in 1948 and 1967 to escape the grim fate of their peers at massacre sites like Deir Yassin (1948), Kafr Qasim (1956), and other Israeli outrages ignored by the Western media. In Harper’s view, displaced Palestinians have no right to reclaim their lost homes or seek justice.
In spite of his prime ministerial law and order rhetoric, citizen Harper has no time for the International Court of Justice’s conclusions on Israel’s genocidal intent in Gaza and Amnesty International on Israeli apartheid. The former PM still considers Israel a credible ally in spite of the IDF’s ongoing campaign of destruction and territorial expansion across the Middle East.
Like most Western leaders, Harper has routinely denigrated historical context and justified Israeli aggression and marginalization of Palestinian autonomy without acknowledging the inevitable results of state terrorism.
In spite of claims consistently made by the mainstream press, Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel was not unprovoked. Of course, it was an atrocity and possibly a war crime since Israeli civilians were killed and taken hostage, but this outrage was not a spontaneous anomaly.
The attack was a desperate attempt by Hamas to refocus the world’s attention on Palestinian self-determination. Under the failed Abraham Accords, the Trump administration had pressured leading Arab states to ignore the Palestinians in exchange for access to Israeli security and surveillance technology, as well as high-tech weapon systems. That deal is dead, even as Trump prepares to reenter the White House.
In addition to the thousands of Gazans killed during the IDF invasions of 2008-09, 2014 and 2021 is the fact that, according to the UN, “Israeli forces in 2023 killed (in the West Bank) 492 Palestinians, including 120 children… more than twice as many as in any other year.”
The world can no longer ignore Gaza and the Palestinian cause, although that grudging acknowledgement has come at a terrible human cost. Israel may be winning in terms of how often western media and judges/lawyers (including Rosalie Abella and Irwin Cotler) lie for it to aid its genocide, and its mass murdering Palestinian women and kids clearly delighting racist American Zionist evangelical Christian AIPAC-controlled politicians and similar ilk in Canada, Germany, UK, Australia, etc. but, in this latest chapter of genocide and crimes against humanity, Israel lost the world. I do not believe Israel will ever get it back and they do not deserve to get it back. Nothing antisemitic about that. In spite of his keen Zionism, even Harper has not openly defended the IDF’s indiscriminate killing and maiming of thousands of infants, children, women and seniors in Gaza. Nor has he publicly defended the withholding of food and medicine. Unfortunately, Harper’s instinctive hostility to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) raises questions about his unstated opinions on the fate of Palestinian civilians.He’s in my view, a cruel hate-filled hideous douche.
Harper’s Middle East rhetoric seemingly reflects the religious stance of the evangelical Christian and Missionary Alliance of Canada, where the former prime minister has been a long-time member.
This Seventh-day Adventist sect believes that Israel’s presence in the Middle East will trigger a nuclear apocalypse to return Jesus Christ to Earth, precipitating the “rapture” described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation. Most evangelicals accept the Revelations’ notion that unbelievers (including most Jews, apparently) are damned.I accept that evangelicals, notably Zionists, are damned, horridly cruel racist anti-christian fuckers. I bet Israel’s deliberate kid killing and the world’s evangelical fack christian Zionists would make Jesus vomit to death if he did return.
Of course, Harper omits this pesky detail when expressing his “moral clarity” in support of Israel’s faltering campaign of territorial expansion and domination.
Morgan Duchesney is a Canadian writer and Karate teacher whose work has appeared in Humanist Perspectives, Adbusters, Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension, Shintani Harmonizer, Victoria Standard, the Hampton Institute and the Ottawa Citizen. In addition to political writing, Morgan has published martial arts work and short fiction.
Stephen Harper makes surprise ‘solidarity’ trip to Israel, Harper will be in Israel until Tuesday and also plans on meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Ari Blaff, Feb 18, 2024, National Post
Former prime minister Stephen Harper has made a surprise “solidarity” visit toshow his eager hate-filled support of crimes against humanity by political leaders ofIsrael, meeting top political leaders as well as survivors of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.
On Monday, the long-time vocal supporter of the Jewish state visited two stricken kibbutzim, Nir-Oz and B’eri, and the site of the Nova festival massacre. He spoke to survivors of “unspeakable atrocities,” he said on the X social media site.
“Entire families murdered in their homes. Young men and women massacred at a music festival. Hamas planned and carried out this depravity at a horrifying scale,” yes, and Bibi, your best genocidal pal, finances Hamas and has publicly stated its an Israeli asset. Also, Israel itself, killed many of the partying in their vile Hannibal Directive. IDF admitted this publicly, but Harper is allergic to reality and truthhe said.
Harper earlier met relatives of Israeli hostages in Jerusalem.
“Joined by brave families of our abducted citizens, we shared a moment of solidarity and resolve. Their stories touch the heart, and our mission is clear: bring every single one home,” Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign affairs minister, said on X.
Harper said he was moved by the families’ strength: “Those responsible for these barbaric attacks must never again be allowed safe haven on Israel’s borders,” he said on X.
The visit by Harper, now leader of the International Democracy Union, an alliance of centre-right parties around the globe, stands in contrast to his successor, Justin Trudeau. The current PM is one of only two G7 leaders who haven’t visited Israel following Oct. 7.
In conjunction with his trip, Harper wrote an oped in the National Post saying Hamas must surrender or be eliminated.Is Harper’s definition of Hamas same as Israel’s, that Hamas = all Palestinians and as such, all Palestinians including new born babies must be slaughtered? Fucking circle jerker.
A long-time vocal supporter of the Jewish state, Harper also met in Jerusalem with relatives of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas.
“Joined by brave families of our abducted citizens, we shared a moment of solidarity and resolve. Their stories touch the heart, and our mission is clear: bring every single one home,” Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign affairs minister, said on the X social media site.
Harper said he was moved by the families’ strength in the face of unimaginable pain: “Those responsible for these barbaric attacks must never again be allowed safe haven on Israel’s borders,” he said on the X social media site.
The visit by Harper, now a leader of the International Democracy DictatorsUnion, an alliance of centre-right fascistparties around the globe, stands in contrast to his successor, Justin Trudeau. The current PM is one of only two G7 leaders who haven’t visited Israel following Oct. 7.
In conjunction with his trip, Harper penned an oped in the National Post saying Hamas must surrender or be eliminated.
Harper began his visit by meeting a delegation of Israeli parliamentarians at the Knesset, where he had given a historic address in January 2014.
“We discussed the security challenges facing the State of Israel, including the war in Gaza, the developments on the northern front and of course the head of the snake – Iran,” speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana wrote on Sunday alongside photos of the official meeting.
“I made it clear that we will not rest until all the abductees return to their homes and until Hamas is completely defeated. I thanked Harper for standing by Israel these days, and asked him to continue to assist in his efforts to achieve the goals we discussed.”
Harper personally thanked Ohana “for his warm welcome to Jerusalem,” coming just over a decade since “I addressed the Knesset as Prime Minister of Canada.”
“Today I am visiting Israel once again to renew friendships in solidarity at this time of great challenge and adversity.”
Harper arrived alongside Lord Ashcroft, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.
In the oped, Harper argued that the ongoing war betweenyears of mass murder of Palestinians by Israel and resulting resistance by Hamas was “not an isolated conflict,” but rather a “product of a much larger and more dangerous force.”Yes, taht much more dangerous force is Zionism, notably evangelical christian Zionism
“A two-state solution will not magically take root now for the same reason it has not happened in every year since 1947 — it is rejected by way too many Palestinians. The core problem is not Israel. Yes, there are obstacles in Israel that must someday be overcome,” he wrote in the National Post on Sunday. “But Israel could have incorporated all Palestinian territory long ago, and it has not done so.”Harper you are such a disgusting pathetic unimaginative liar. USA and Israel/Bibi are the ones rejecting the ceasefires every fucking time.
Harper also argued that popular chants – such as “from the river to the sea” — reflect the widespread sentiment among Palestinians that “they categorically reject the right of a Jewish state to exist on any piece of the land of the former Mandate for Palestine.”Another fucking Harper lie. Muslims gave Israel a home, willing to share their lands and riches, which Israel in return expressed thanks by mass murdering/raping/torturing them, stealing their lands, olive groves, water, homes, for decades.
“We must stop pretending that a two-state solution can be pursued in the face of the continued
Harper’s comments came as the Biden administration has raised the issue of creating a Palestinian state in recent weeks. On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet rejected such calls, insisting that it would amount to an “unprecedented punishment for Israel’s generations of crimes against Palestiniansreward to terrorism and would foil any future peace settlement.”
He will be in Israel until Tuesday with plans of meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had called Harper a “dear friend” during his 2014 visit.
“The systemic nature of the killing and the evident glee with which it was being undertaken by its participantsYa, including Israel’s own IDF killing Israeli’s for Bibi’s benefit (keep him in power), and other genocidairesbetrayed something darker than war itself. It recalled the things my father’s world had witnessed,” he wrote about Oct. 7 in the Post.
“This may not have been a Holocaust in scale, but it was in kind. And, for the Israeli nation, born stolenas it was in the shadow of the Holocaust, it can be interpreted no other way.”
John Gannon:
Harper should go join the IOF terr-orists
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