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1. Well said, as usual, Peter.

2. For the love of God and even you don’t believe ,if you are human ,please at the very least provide food and sustenance at this time when Palestinians have nothing to eat and drink .What is happening is beyond immoral .

3. well said.

   1. actually, Peter Larson is the most antisemitic person I know.

      1. Reply to SE.,
         If I am the most antisemitic person you know, then Canada is in very good shape and you and other Canadian Jews have absolutely nothing to be concerned about.

         I fully support equality for Jews in Canada and strongly oppose any statements or acts of an antisemitic nature. I do feel sharply critical of Israel, as you know (and as do many Jews). but that is not the same thing as being antisemitic. Do you think that any criticism of Israel is antisemitic? What criticisms do you think are legitimate? If any.

         I do think there are some antisemitic people in Canada and I support laws which make hate speech, etc. illegal.
         Thanks for your contribution.

      2. Maybe Israel and Westerners in general, including our legacy news-media, have been getting accustomed to so many Palestinian deaths over many decades of Palestinian/Hamas-Israel warring. It seems to me that for quite some time, Palestinians have been perceived thus treated as not being of equal value to Israelis.

         Meanwhile, the general western corporate news-media’s ‘coverage’ of the Israel-Palestinian conflict has long been wanting, to put it mildly. This includes their reporting on the current and past violence but especially their non-reporting on the consequential anti-Palestinian social injustices that continue in between every military flare up over decades of Israeli occupation.

         I’m far from alone in finding that Palestinian suffering and deaths in their entirety have not been justly represented. … The most journalistically compromised news-media I’ve read is Canada’s National Post newspaper. It epitomizes an extreme example of an echo chamber promoting unconditional support for the state of Israel, including its very-long-practiced cruelty towards the Palestinian people. And I mean unconditional support.

         I strongly feel that genuine journalists with integrity would tender their resignations and publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s corrupt media product, be it from the Right or Left. They’d definitely not excuse themselves with: ‘but I have a spouse and kids to feed!’, as though they were forced into coupling, copulating and procreating.

         Instead, today’s legacy news-media know what readership butters most of their bread and accordingly go in that self-compromised editorial direction.

      3. You have led a sheltered life.

4. Yes, it’s obvious when taking account of the facts of this butchering conflict. Canada should be doubling support to UNRWA right now.

5. Years from now, the history books will record how negligent we were and question how Canada could have stood by and watched a catastrophe taking place.

   1. I dread it may be much worse than even that. … The news-media I consume daily, even the otherwise progressive outlets, are replacing Gazan death and suffering with relatively trivial stories. Perhaps that’s what most of those news outlets’ subscribers or regular patrons want.

      Apparently growing Western apathy towards the mass starvation and slaughter of helpless Palestinian civilians will undoubtedly only further fire long-held Middle Eastern anger collectively towards us.

      Some countries’ actual provision, mostly by the U.S., of highly effective weapons used in Israel’s onslaught will likely turn that anger into lasting hatred always seeking eye-for-an-eye redress.

      Meanwhile, with each news report of the daily Palestinian death toll from unrelenting Israeli bombardment, I myself feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect ever since I began regularly consuming news products in 1988. And I don’t think I’m alone in feeling this nor that it’s willfully callous.

      It has long seemed to me as a news consumer that the value of a life abroad is typically perceived according to the abundance of protracted conditions under which it suffers, especially during wartime, and that this effect can be exacerbated when there’s also racial contrast. Therefore, when that life is lost, even violently, it typically receives lesser coverage.

6. Perhaps you could send him this image too and ask him how he’d feel if those were his children. (I’m sending to politicians and others).Jake.

   1. peter Larson is the most antisemitic person I know

7. Hi Peter. These are very poignant and moving images with equally touching commentary . I hope that these resonate with the Minister .

8. Don’t call it a conflict. There’s no such thing in a slaughterhouse.

9. What a nightmare situation for the Palestinian non-combatants! Who plausibly is going to be able to stop the Israel Defence Forces and immorally opportunistic prime minister Netanyahoo, especially with their state-of-the-art mostly-American-taxpayer-supplied weaponry, including nuclear?

   There have been tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian non-combatants killed by Israeli assaults, largely the result of the decades-long Israeli occupation. This time, however, there not only were casualties in Israel but a significant number, even though they’re still far fewer than the Palestinian death toll.

   Normally, there are rockets fired from Palestinian territory, intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defenses, and Israel retaliates in their usual many-fold-measures way with smart bombs [etcetera] supplied by U.S. taxpayers, typically killing civilians or school children. The IDF’s frequent ‘defense’ is a claimed belief that their targets were using Palestinian non-combatants basically as human shields.

   It’s Israel’s, and too much of the West’s, business-as-usual perception thus inevitable non-intervention. Palestinians are considered disposable. Generally, Israel and Westerners, including our legacy news-media, have been getting accustomed to so many Palestinian deaths over many decades of struggle with Israel.

   For quite some time, maybe even decades, they have been perceived thus treated as not being of equal value to those within Israel. This may help explain the relative poverty, with Palestinian children picking through the mountains of Israeli waste basically dumped on territory annexed or on the way to being annexed.

   Therefor their great suffering and deaths are somehow less worthy of our actionable concern as otherwise relatively civilized nations. Atrociously, the worth of such life can/will be measured by the overabundance of protracted conditions under which it suffers.

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