{"id":85761,"date":"2023-11-17T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=85761"},"modified":"2023-11-16T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T17:59:13","slug":"israeli-government-responds-strongly-to-justin-trudeaus-accusations-of-deliberate-killings-of-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/11\/17\/israeli-government-responds-strongly-to-justin-trudeaus-accusations-of-deliberate-killings-of-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli government responds strongly to Justin Trudeau&#8217;s accusations of deliberate killings of civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the electoral calculus shows that there aren&#8217;t enough Jewish votes to be gained by backing Israel, so Justin Trudeau is <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/first-reading-canadas-endlessly-fumbling-response-to-israel-hamas\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">going for the Islamic vote instead<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezralevant\/status\/1725170487767044108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-17-at-12-36-05-Rebel-News-@RebelNewsOnline-_-X-389x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-85762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-17-at-12-36-05-Rebel-News-@RebelNewsOnline-_-X-389x600.png 389w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-17-at-12-36-05-Rebel-News-@RebelNewsOnline-_-X-415x640.png 415w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-17-at-12-36-05-Rebel-News-@RebelNewsOnline-_-X-97x150.png 97w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-17-at-12-36-05-Rebel-News-@RebelNewsOnline-_-X.png 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not typical that an Israeli leader will issue an English-language excoriation of a friendly government in a time of war, but this week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an exception for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Israel is doing everything to keep civilians out of harm&#8217;s way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm&#8217;s way,&#8221; said Netanyahu in a statement addressed to the Canadian leader. He added, &#8220;the forces of civilization must back Israel in defeating Hamas barbarism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>.@JustinTrudeau It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>While Israel is doing everything to keep civilians out of harm&#8217;s way, Hamas is doing &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; \u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05e0\u05ea\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5 (@netanyahu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netanyahu\/status\/1724588372994216010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Netanyahu was reacting to prepared remarks Trudeau delivered in B.C. where he accused Israel of killing &#8220;women, children and babies&#8221;. The statement \u2014 which did not place any blame on Hamas for the carnage \u2014 urged Israel to exercise &#8220;maximum restraint&#8221; as &#8220;the world was watching&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s but the latest incident in an official Trudeau government response to the Israel-Hamas conflict that has been checkered by confusion, contradiction \u2014 and a noticeable alienation from Canada&#8217;s usual international allies.<\/p>\n<p>In the first days after the Oct. 7 massacres, Canada was left out of a strongly worded joint statement issued by five fellow members of the G7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The terrorist actions of Hamas have no justification, no legitimacy and must be universally condemned,&#8221; read the statement co-signed by the leaders of the U.S., U.K., Germany, Italy and France. The statement then urged Israel to &#8220;set the conditions for a peaceful and integrated Middle East region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/israel-middle-east\/canada-left-out-of-joint-g7-statement-condemning-hamas-attack-on-israel\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explained<\/a> that the statement was issued by Quint \u2013 an organization of five countries separate from the G7 that has never included Canada.<\/p>\n<p>But while it might make sense for Quint to exclude its other G7 ally, Japan, it&#8217;s more conspicuous that the co-signers never called the G7 member with a substantial Jewish population and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/country-pays\/israel\/relations.aspx?lang=eng\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lengthy history<\/a> of diplomatic support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>And while Trudeau&#8217;s official reaction to the Oct. 7 massacres carried much of the same sentiments, it did include a routine equivocation absent from the Quint statement: Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.gc.ca\/en\/news\/statements\/2023\/10\/08\/statement-prime-minister-trudeau-attacks-against-israel\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had a right<\/a> to defend itself &#8220;in accordance with international law&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the electoral calculus shows that there aren&#8217;t enough Jewish votes to be gained by backing Israel, so Justin Trudeau is going for the Islamic vote instead: It&#8217;s not typical that an Israeli leader will issue an English-language excoriation of a friendly government in a time of war, but this week Israeli Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,28,370,53],"tags":[86,1528,291,887,257],"class_list":["post-85761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-media","category-middle-east","category-politics","tag-criticism","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-justintrudeau","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mjf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85763,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85761\/revisions\/85763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}