Trudeau's Tightrope

 

This article: "Justin Trudeau struggles to walk a very fine line on the Israel-Hamas war" is apparently from November 18th, 2023, but I first saw it when it was offered for my edification by my browser homepage about a week ago.  Here's the subtitle:

PM caught between asserting Israel's right to self-defence and reflecting Canadians' grief and fear

Already we've gone off the rails.  Israel is conducting offensive operations.  Israel has ALWAYS been the offender.  Israel has been abusing the Palestinians and stealing their land for DECADES.  For longer than the USA occupied Afghanistan!

The war between Israel and Hamas creates two challenges for Justin Trudeau, as it would for any Canadian prime minister.

First, he must try to take and hold a principled position on a dire conflict. Second, he must try to hold together a country whose citizens are understandably agonized by the death and destruction.

The strain of both those tasks only becomes more apparent with each passing day. Within 24 hours of Trudeau's remarks on the conflict Tuesday, Trudeau was heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters inside a Vancouver restaurant for what he didn't say — and scolded online by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what he did say.

Any likely Canadian prime minister would indeed find it a challenge to straddle the clear, moral position on Israeli atrocities against Palestinians and the craven, debased political position of the leader of a US colony that is also in thrall to domestic Zionists.  I daresay it's impossible.

It doesn't help that an entity like Justin Trudeau (never the sharpest tool in the shed in any case) lives inside an ideological bubble, like all cowardly Liberals/liberals, who vaguely sense that their smug, shit-headed worldview can't survive contact with reality.

For these dullards there is always this compulsion to find the "middle-ground" between the views of sane, informed people and ignorant, racist, stupid, lying, bloodthirsty shit-heads.  The case of the pro-Palestinian protesters and a corrupt, murderous, war criminal, racist pile of garbage like Netanyahu coming at Trudeau from different directions is the perfect illustration of this self-created "dilemma."

Trudeau's five-minute statement on Tuesday — delivered in the middle of an announcement of federal support for a new battery facility in British Columbia — began with comments and arguments he has offered before. The "human tragedy" unfolding in the Gaza Strip is "heart wrenching," he said, and the "price of justice cannot be the continued suffering of all Palestinian civilians."

Trudeau's statement was stupid in that somehow or other "justice" is something that needs to be found for the Hamas operation on October 7th.  The world did not pop into existence on October 7th.  Ask yourself why the Hamas attack on October 7th isn't presented as "Palestinians defending themselves" and why "justice" for the Palestinians needn't require ending the lives of TENS OF THOUSANDS of innocent Israeli civilians.

Any so-called "journalist" who writes as if history started on October 7th, 2023, is a fraud.  Any so-called "journalist" who writes as if Hamas is responsible for all the Israelis killed on October 7th, when it is well known that many of them were killed by the IDF, is a fraud.  These so-called "journalists" need to be told that nobody put a gun to their head and forced them to lie for a living.  Their "services" are no longer required since they're either frauds or incompetent.

Here's Caitlin Johnstone again: "It's Insane That Anyone Is Still Supporting Israel":

It honestly blows my mind that there are still people adamantly supporting Israel after all this. After all the people they’ve killed. After all the lies they’ve been caught in. After all their comments endorsing genocide and ethnic cleansing, and all their actions showing they mean it. 

If you’re still supporting Israel at this point, you’re just telling everyone you don’t care about truth or morality. You’re announcing to the world that you care only about your weird ideological agendas and geopolitical control. 

You are publicly proclaiming that you are a dogshit human being. That you have lived on this earth all these years without arriving at any level of emotional or psychological maturity. That you have wasted your life on this planet.