I've done a couple of posts in the past wherein I've written about my lack of enthusiasm for Canada Day. You can look for them if you want to. Obviously, my disaffection was even greater this year. I'm going to share a quote from a CounterPunch article put up on the site today, July 4th:
The Israeli military forced us into displacement. We ended up in Gaza City on the streets. I have a family. I have children who are all under the age of 15. My wife is pregnant. My financial situation is not easy. A few weeks ago I had to sell some of my belongings. I had a stroller that I used to push the gallons of water on. I had a bicycle too and other things I had to sell to buy flour. We have no food, no water. We don’t have anything. I went to the US aid distribution sites and to the aid trucks. I went there seven or eight times to get food. About 20,000 people gather at the distribution sites along the Netzarim corridor early in the morning, but only 2,000 manage to get any food parcels. Why? Because of the overcrowding. Because of the number of people creating chaos. The food parcels they put in front of us are not enough compared to the number of aid seekers. The American site is a dead end. They told me that there is American aid in Netzarim. I went there. I walked 15 kilometers to look for some flour, rice or lentils. I couldn’t get anything. I went to the Netzarim aid site three or four times. All in vain. We go there only to find death in front of us. There was no food or water. There was only death. People were lying dead in the sand in front of us. I don’t know what to say. This situation is very hard. They told us there is aid in the trucks. Then, we went to the trucks. The trucks move very fast, running over people. The trucks were running on top of people! Today, I am unable to do anything. I used to weigh 90 kilos. Now I weigh only 58 kilos. Things are hard, really hard in Gaza. We are subjected to the worst torture in the world.
THIS is what Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau, Crystia Freeland, Anthony Housefather, etc., plus Pierre Poilievre and his team of troglodytes, all ENTHUSIASTICALLY support.
This is what the management of CBC News deliberately continues to enable and what Canada's mainstream journalists cowardly concede to allow their paymasters to enable. It's what the fascist, rancid "newspaper" The National Post champions and celebrates.
Meanwhile, some "progressives" are mollified with token sanctions against a couple of particulary egregious nazis in Naziyahoo's cabinet (But heaven forbid sanctions against Naziyahoo himself!) Whereas the more "radical" and "activist" among us dislocate their shoulders from patting themselves on the back for wandering around in large groups in public chanting like shit-heads.
I've joined those crowds. I've written letters. I joined Independent Jewish Voices (as a supporter) and suggested things. But I had been in a serious financial/personal crisis in 2023 all the way til about this time last year. But the full-time activists. The academics and scholars. The union movement activists. They've watched this holocaust being live-streamed for almost two years. For some of them, going to work for eight hours a day, five days a week, pretty much entails that they're supposed to be thinking about how to respond to this. And, so far, what they've come up with is NOTHING.
So, with this complete moral failure, PLUS Carney's using Trump's threats as an excuse to [again] trample the rights of the First Nations, to "stand up" ["Elbows Up!!!"] to Trump by promising to buy billions of more in US-American weapons and trap refugees at the border and all the other stupid bullshit that Canada's servile politicians do, ... and the significant proportion of this country's population which supports all of this vile garbage, and all the other stuff that makes me depressed and misanthropic, ... fuck it.
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