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Carney on the day before the election: "This is a national crisis of historical proportions!" Carney on the day after the election: "Time for a vacation! See you all in four months!"

Ford isn't an attack dog. Like Carney, he's all mouth and retreats at the first opposition.

The Americans don't produce enough steel, aluminum, or copper, not to mention softwood lumber or semiconductors, and won't for many years, if ever. So as stockpiles disappear, they will have no choice but to buy, pay the tariffs, and then jack up the prices of everything made with these materials. A ton of narcotics goes north across the border for every ounce of narcotics going south. Not to mention illegal guns and illegal immigrants.

Arabs were murdering Jews long before the British took over from the Ottomans.

In 1948, when the Arab countries attacked Israel, the local Arabs were all confident that they would win - and slaughter or drive off all the Jews. They didn't need to be taught to hate Jews.

The Middle East has been 'chafing' under religious conservatives for a thousand years.

I trust what they say a lot more than I trust what Hamas or any Palestinian under them say. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skvxuqxdxl LOL. Actors practicing. https://x.com/MaralSalmassi/status/1953195084280672537 The problem with that is NO ONE wants Palestinians, especially ones from Gaza who have been indoctrinated for the last 18 years into the most ferocious and fanatical branch of Islam.

It should be. Then paved over. The Palestinians should be moved to the West Bank, and the Jews on the West Bank should be moved to Gaza.

What ludicrous nonsense is this? The terrorists ARE the Palestinians. It is the only place where mothers celebrate the deaths of their sons if they died while killing or trying to kill a Jew. It sounds like you really need to think about putting down that white man's burden you're crushed beneath. It wasn't OUR fault those people decided that their hatred of Jews was more important than their lives or their children's lives.

Hamas has over 600 miles of tunnels with thousands of entrances. They also wear no uniforms and blend in with the civilian population. And they don't care how many civilians die, and they don't care how many of their own members die because they can easily replace them. What would you do, with your tears for the death cult? Do you want to import them and have them all live next door to you? They don't just hate Jews, you know. They hate everyone who isn't a Muslim. Such sweet people! https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1952741936374108446

What makes you believe that Hamas's attitude, militancy, and hatred of Israel and Jews aren't entirely mirrored by the general population? Riiight. And Hams v2 wins and starts to rearm and rebuild so they can attack Israel again. Are you volunteering? Because NO ONE is willing to send soldiers over there to keep watch over a fanatic, suicidal death cult.

So you trust the numbers and situation as reported by Hamas but not by an organization funded by Israel? Most of these consist of direct, easily verifiable quotes of what these other NGOs have written and posted. And you're just going to ignore that because reasons? Awwww, were they blockading the poor Palestinians? Awwwww! And because of that vicious blockade, the most Hamas could do was launch ten thousand rockets and missiles at Israel IN ONE DAY while sending thousands of heavily armed troops across the border to slaughter and rape and torture Israeli civilians. Poor Gaza! Those dirty Jews were being so mean to try and keep weapons out!

So what do you think Israel should do? Stop, pull back, and let Hamas reconstitute, rearm, and plan for the next attack?

Terrible starvation! Mass deaths! Enormous crisis! But where are the marchers? Where are the angry denunciations from world leaders? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c776njyl74po

How do you expect it to address the 'humanitarian crisis'? Let the UN take over again? The UN's own reports show almost 90% of the aid they attempted to deliver never got to its destination. And how are you judging the term 'surgical operations'? They're not carpet bombing the place like the Allies did in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. They're not dropping cluster bombs or napalm. They haven't parked hundreds of artillery pieces wheel to wheel like the Russians did when firing into the city of Grozny. They aren't bombing indiscriminately like the Turks are in Kurdish cities. They're not dragging women and old men out into square to shoot them like the Syrians did to the Druze. They're actually telling people ahead of time about where they intend to operate so civilans can clear out. Of course, Hamas often shoots the civilians trying to clear out because it likes having them as shields, and every death is another accusation against Israel.

Germans are fine. It's only the Nazis we hate. Why are we bombing the poor Germans!? If there were a vote today to elect new governments in Gaza and the West Bank, Hamas would be the most likely to win. They still enjoy broad support. Haven't you already admitted to being a Nazi and an anti-semite?

Over the past few years, Western NGOs have undergone a radicalization. For example, there was a time when the American Civil Liberties Union defended Nazis who wanted to march in Chicago. No more. Now they refuse to defend right wing people. The Montreal Pride organization banned Jewish groups from marching. So did the 'Dyke March" in New York. The Ottawa Pride group looked more like a pro Palestine march than anything connected to gay pride. All the gay groups in Canada, the US, and Europe are fanatically pro-Palestine. Why do I bring this up? Because it shows just how absurd the oppressed/oppressor beliefs have become. The world NGOs are, if anything, much more aligned with the new 'progressive' views of things, dividing the world into the oppressed and the oppressors. Once one is in the oppressed group, one can do no wrong, and when one is in the oppressor group, no right. All of them have condemned Israel for years. Everyone from Oxfam to doctors without borders have long condemned Israel, though rarely do they say a word against Hamas or any other Arab regimes. https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/doctors-without-borders-systematically-ignoring-israeli-victims-and-hamas-terror/ After Oct 7 many of these NGOs not only did not condemn what Hamas had done, but defended them. https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/immediate-ngo-responses-hamas-pogrom/ So in my mind, these groups are in no way neutral. They are fiercely anti-Israel. And on top of that, of course, if you're in Gaza and criticize Hamas, you won't be in Gaza much longer, or you'll be dead. Mind you, almost all the people working for international NGOs in the Palestinian territories ARE Palestinians.

The right thing to say was how Estonia responded. "The barbarity of Hamas makes it impossible for Estonia and like-minded countries to recognize Palestine."

Hamas knew it had no chance of defeating Israel militarily. That was never the goal behind Oc 7. The goal was just this, to provoke an attack, to hide in their tunnels, to continue to fight as the IDF smashed things above ground and killed a whole bunch of civilians.Which, as you know, is the inevitable result of military operations in a heavily built-up urban area. And it's worked beautifully for them. They don't care about the destruction. And they certainly don't care about the deaths. What they care about is persuading the world to hate Israel and Jews like they did. And it's going great. With the help of a propaganda effort by Iran and Qatar, the weak minds of the western left, and the laziness and leftist mentality of the media in the West they've succeded in turning Israel into a hated word among many in the West, and forced Western governments, especially the ones led by the left (which is almost all of them) who are beholden to Muslim and progressive voters to condemn and sanction Israel. So yes, Hamas has absolutely won. They've got shifty-eyed, spineless leaders like Carny, Macron, and Starmer talking about recognizing a nation that has never existed and whose leaders are terrorists. So yes, the attack on Oct 7 worked. Which is why they promise to repeat it as soon as possible.

Oh, Oh! Children dying of starvation! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2en72kvy00o

A woman being threatened with death for getting food aid through to people. But it's not the IDF threatening her. https://www.foxnews.com/world/she-fed-100k-gazan-families-free-now-terrorists-local-merchants-want-her-dead

Sometimes it's important to think of the state more than the individual.

What are you talking about? Ford has been sitting in place for six years. He has no ambitions to do more. He has no vision and no interest in doing anything out of the ordinary or that might rock the boat. He's made no major changes in anything since being elected and has no evident interest in doing more than just squatting there in the premier's chair.

To a degree. According to a Leger poll taken after the vote, the over-60 crowd still voted for Poilievre a lot more than the youth crowd that was touted as being his. 44% of the 55+ crowd voted tory vs only 23% of the 18-24 year olds 46% of the 55+ voted Liberals, though, which is higher than usual. I think a lot were just impressed by his resume. https://leger360.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Leger-CAN_Post_Election_Survey_VF.pdf