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Elbows up: Woe Canada by Diane Bederman

https://dianebederman.com/elbows-up-my-ass/

The Elbows Up campaign fooled Canadians and that led to too many Canadians voting for the Liberal libtards: again.

How many times do Canadians have to be hit in the head before they realize it’s time to say “No More”?

We are now learning that PM Mark Carney; appointed, installed, erected to his position, lied through his teeth. He lied about the tariffs. He talked the talk and crawled the walk. And now, because he only won a minority government, suddenly there are all these recounts and ALL of them are going Liberal. A playbook right from the Democrats. It isn’t going to work.

As a Boomer, I am appalled and disgusted that my age group voted Liberal, again. I spoke to 40 year old men with children who told me before the election that they thought Canada would be better for their children and grandchildren if Canada were to become 51st state. Now that’s a switch.  It has been said, if you vote Conservative when you are 20, you have no heart. If you vote Liberal when you are 40 you have no brain.

Trump was trolling. Do you really think Republicans want Canada? It is Liberal.

But Carney said he would be tough on Trump

“We must respond with both purpose and force,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said in response to American tariffs. Those comments were made on April 3 as Carney stood in Ottawa reacting to Donald Trump’s flurry of tariffs on his so-called “Liberation Day.” 

UK poured millions into aid program linked to Hamas-controlled group David Isaac

https://www.jns.org/uk-poured-millions-into-aid-program-linked-to-hamas-controlled-group/

The United Kingdom is one of the chief funders of Hamas, Israel’s Channel 12 “Weekend News” reported on Saturday night.

While a great deal of the money comes from private donations to so-called Muslim “charities,” the investigation revealed that the British government also funds the terrorist group. Admittedly, the money reaches Hamas indirectly, via UNICEF, but the British Foreign Office is aware of the terror connection, as evidenced in an internal 2022 report.

Hamas operates in the United Kingdom almost with impunity, reported Channel 12 journalist Omri Maniv, noting that Israel’s defense establishment refers to it as “Hamas’s financial capital in the West.”

“Britain is one of the three leading countries in the world in the volume of donations flowing from it to Hamas. The others are Muslim countries,” Maniv noted. “In fact, more than a quarter of non-state funding for the terrorist organization comes from the British Isles.”

But London also transfers tens of millions of pounds to Gaza, which ends up in the hands of the terrorist group.

“The British government is actually giving millions of pounds to the U.N., and especially to UNICEF, which works with the Ministry of Social Development in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas,” Anne Herzberg, legal adviser at NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institute, told Channel 12.

According to a November 2022 document from the British Consulate-General in Jerusalem uncovered by NGO Monitor, “UK Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (FY 2022-2026),” the United Kingdom provided cash transfers to UNICEF, which works with the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Social Development (MoSD).

Ukraine’s Stolen Generation Roger Beam

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/ukraine/ukraines-stolen-generation/

Myroslava Kharchenko is at the heart of the operation to repatriate thousands of Ukrainian children who have been deported, displaced, or just plain kidnapped in the occupied territories held by Russian forces since February 2022. She is the Head of the Legal Department for Save Ukraine, the independent NGO, that works with mothers and families to get their children back. She and her colleagues have had to resort to creating false documents and inventing cover stories or ‘legends’ for the mothers and close relatives who go into Russia to reclaim their children.

With the help of resisters in the Russian occupied territories in the east and south of Ukraine, and in the Crimea, Save Ukraine identifies the whereabouts of displaced children in so called ‘summer’ or ‘health’ camps, and rehabilitation institutions. They find their close relatives in Ukraine and begin to organise the children’s repatriation. Bereft parents get in touch with Save Ukraine for help, and sometimes the children themselves hear about the organisation and call a hotline.

Since the Russian invasion in February 2022, 19,500 children have been identified as having been deported or displaced by the Russians from their homes in the occupied territories. Those are just the ones Save Ukraine knows about — they have a name, a birth certificate, ID documents. It’s estimated there could be tens of thousands more since Russia took Crimea and part of the eastern Donbas region in 2014. Save Ukraine has managed to rescue and repatriate 1,236 children; 640 since February 2022.

Ms Kharchenko, who is also one of Save Ukraine’s Directors, said through an interpreter: “We discuss every case individually and in detail. Sometimes we have to use methods we can’t discuss in public to get the children out.

“We carefully brief the mother or close relative on what to say at every stage when they go to get their child. They are given a story, or ‘legend’, which they have to stick to when questioned by frontier guards at the borders and the airports, at checkpoints, or by the officials at the camps and institutions where the children are living.”

Save Ukraine is constantly identifying the easiest or less dangerous places to enter and leave Russia. Sometimes, at great personal risk, their own staff may accompany a group of mothers and relatives. Sympathetic drivers and organisers on the other side help. During each mission, staff at Save Ukraine maintain a 24/7 contact with the relatives, advising and holding their hands at a distance.

Since the borders between Ukraine and Russia are closed, the rescues are planned via round-about routes from Germany, the Baltic States, and other EU countries. The relatives will often fly into Russia — Moscow, for example — and then make their way by bus and car south to the occupied territories.

Do Not Be Fooled by Iran: What They Really Want Is to Destroy America, Israel Is Just in the Way by Bassam Tawil

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21638/hamas-wants-to-destroy-america

The real nakba [catastrophe, for Palestinians] was that they started a war and lost it. Well, if you start a war, that is what can happen.

The Trump administration should beware of countries where the mouth says one thing but the legs do the opposite. Believe the legs. The Iranians and Palestinians have not given up their dream of eliminating Israel and America.

Iran’s leaders do the same thing. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reassures Americans that “We are not seeking war, we favor negotiation and dialogue.” Meanwhile, Khamenei calls for the elimination of the “Zionist regime” and endorses “Death to America.”

It is time for the Trump administration and other Westerners to see that the Palestinians and the Iranian regime do not want Israel or America in the Middle East — period — and are prepared to do anything to achieve this goal, including with nuclear weapons.

In many respects, Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group, has always been more forthright and honest about its goals regarding Israel than its rivals in the Palestinian Authority (PA). When one listens to leaders of the PA and the leaders of Hamas in Arabic, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between them. Their rhetoric, for instance, to vilify Israel, is identical: “The Zionist Enemy”, “the Zionist Entity”, the State of Occupation”, and “the Apartheid State”.

Hamas and the PA both view the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” (nakba) and call for flooding it with millions of Palestinian “refugees” so that Jews become a minority to eliminate or cast out.

Hamas makes clear to everyone that its primary goal is to wage jihad (holy war) against Israel with the intention of replacing it with an Islamist state. The terror group’s covenant proudly quotes Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, as stating: “Israel will exist and continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

Iran Isn’t Building a Civilian Nuclear Program by Daniel Greenfield

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21637/iran-nuclear-program

[T]he Obama administration and some figures in the current administration insist on pretending that a deal can be made to keep Iran’s nuclear program peaceful.

Defenders of rebooting Obama’s 2015 JCPOA Iran nuclear deal have taken to calling critics “globalists,” and claim that bringing back Obama’s old policy is somehow “America First.” They insist that being realistic about Iran’s nuclear program is a plot by the military-industrial complex and the CIA.

But it was the CIA and the ‘intelligence community’ that bailed out Iran during the George W. Bush administration, by falsely declaring in the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that “we judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.”

The Trump administration can… maintain sanctions, it can take out the program, or it can do absolutely nothing. But it should be clear-eyed about what Iran’s nuclear program is and what it’s for. Deals with terrorists and terror states are worthless. Any agreement with Iran can only end one way, and that’s with a terror state whose motto is “Death to America” gaining the ability to carry out that threat against us.

Iran’s civilian nuclear program is as much of a front as a mob chain of pizza parlors. Negotiating with Islamic terrorists is a waste of America’s power and credibility. And it seduces those who negotiate with terrorists into believing that a deal is possible no matter how high the red flags fly.

Iran has some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. The average cost of electricity in the United States per kilowatt-hour is $0.181.

In Iran it’s $0.004/kWh.

A country where electricity is vastly cheaper than America isn’t looking to lower power costs.

Iran joins Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar and other oil-rich countries as having some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. Countries with vast energy reserves and production don’t need nuclear energy the way that Germany or France, which depend on imports, do.

How the cowardly West is emboldening Hamas Britain, France, Canada and the UN are turning against Israel and boosting its psychopathic enemies. Brendan O’Neill

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/20/how-the-cowardly-west-is-emboldening-hamas/

There’s a surefire way to know you’re on the wrong side of history: you get praised by Hamas. This ignominious fate befell Britain, France and Canada this week. The three big hitters of the West’s liberal conscience issued a statement condemning Israel and guess who loved it? Yes, the army of anti-Semites devoted to Israel’s destruction. The neo-fascist militia that killed more Jews in one day on 7 October 2023 than anyone has since the Nazis. These nations have taken ‘a significant step in the right direction’, gushed the Jew-killers.

Give yourselves a pat on the back, Starmer, Carney and Macron: you’ve made a gang of racist mass murderers very happy. Their statement called on Israel to ‘stop its military operations’ in Gaza and ‘allow humanitarian aid to enter’. If Israel fails to cease its ‘egregious’ ops, we will take ‘further concrete actions’, they imperiously threatened. It was music to the ears of Hamas. Of course it was: you don’t need a PhD in war studies to know that international condemnation of one side in a war tends to comfort and rouse the other. Britain, France and Canada have taken a ‘principled stance against the Israeli occupation’s policy of siege and starvation’, Hamas said.

The seriousness of this cannot be overstated. The leaders of Western nations have essentially given credence to the Hamas view of Israel’s war in Gaza – namely, that it is a criminal campaign of starvation masquerading as a war on terror. It is ‘egregious’ and ‘disproportionate’ and must stop, said Britain, France and Canada; it is a crusade of ‘forced displacement’ that is ruthlessly ‘targeting Palestinians’, said Hamas in its approving response. Different words, same sentiment: Israel’s behaviour is villainous and the world must stand against it.

Worse, both sides threaten consequences if Israel refuses to lay down arms. Hamas promises to keep fighting ‘the Zionist entity’. Britain, France and Canada promise ‘concrete’ punishments if Israel doesn’t immediately halt Operation Gideon’s Chariots, its latest ground push against Hamas’s remaining strongholds in Gaza. This reportedly includes France threatening to put the kibosh on the EU-Israel trade pact, which could have serious consequences for Israel’s economic health. So Hamas holds a gun to the head of the Jewish State and Europe holds a knife to its purse strings – a pincer movement of neo-fascists and haughty liberals devoted to halting Israel’s war on the barbarous authors of the 7 October pogrom. What a shameful day for what remains of Western civilisation.

A Disunited Kingdom New SNP leadership and an unpopular Labour Party may yet force Scottish independence back onto the political agenda.John Lloyd

https://quillette.com/2025/05/19/a-disunited-kingdom-snp-swinney-forbes-europe/?ref=quillette-daily-newsletter

Many European states have political parties that exist to convince a part of their population to secede and make their own way in a separate polity. Most of these parties are small, electorally insignificant, and only occasionally violent (as on the French island of Corsica). But they are all likely to be assisted by the turbulence of our political moment.

Germany hosts two separatist parties—the Bavaria Party and the Free Voters of Saxony, both of which have local followings but attract only a small number of votes. In Italy, the Northern League was established in the early 1990s to create “Padania,” a new state freed from the corruption of Rome. It has since contracted its name to The League to become a small right-wing party and a partner in the current right-wing government. Belgium is divided between Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north and French-speaking Wallonia in the south. The country was expected to split after the 2024 election, but the far-right secessionist party in Flanders, Vlams Belang, came second to the more moderate, centre-right N-VA. After seven months of talks, the N-VA formed a national coalition government with Wallonia’s centre-right party, and Belgium is holding together—for the time, at least.

Spain is a country of passionately autonomist regions and it is currently experiencing a period of strong economic growth. But the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, is under constant attack, and the fragile coalition he leads has been dependent on the support of Catalonian independence parties. An election in the region last year, however, showed a significant rise in support for Catalonia’s pro-government socialist party. This has weakened both of the region’s secessionist parties and the grip they exercise over Sanchez.

So, a tentative peace has settled over the governments of Europe, relieved for now of the immediate worry that their borders will be challenged and that politics will return to a hectic series of late-night meetings called to avert a national break-up. Yet one country still threatens to split into separate states through the process secessionists like to call liberation, and it is the state that most boldly proclaims its national wholeness: the United Kingdom.

How Qatar Bought America The tiny Gulf nation has spent almost $100 billion to establish its influence in Congress, universities, newsrooms, think tanks, and corporations. What does it want in return?By Frannie Block and Jay Solomon

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-qatar-bought-america

On Wednesday, Donald Trump will travel to Qatar. On his trip, the president will visit Al Udeid Air Base, the largest American military facility in the region, and attend meetings with the ruling Al Thani family. Perhaps he will also thank them for the $400 million gift of a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet that will reportedly be retrofitted for his use, and then transferred to his presidential library.

The airplane deal was signed off by Attorney General Pam Bondi. She used to work at a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm that received $115,000 a month from Qatar to fight human trafficking, according to a 2019 contract reviewed by The Free Press.

She’s not the only one in the administration with ties to the Persian Gulf state.

President Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, led lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs when it represented Qatar’s embassy in Washington. FBI Director Kash Patel worked as a consultant for Qatar, though he didn’t register as a foreign agent.

And then there is Steve Witkoff, president Trump’s longtime friend and senior adviser, who is accompanying him on his trip this week. For months now, Witkoff has served as Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East—and his name has been floated as a future national security adviser. Witkoff also happens to be a beneficiary of Qatar’s largesse: In 2023, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund bought out his faltering investment in New York’s Park Lane Hotel for $623 million.

Meanwhile, the Trump Organization is hard at work planning a new luxury golf resort near Qatar’s capital, Doha, in partnership with a Qatari company. Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. will speak next week at the invitation-only Qatar Economic Forum in a session titled “Investing in America.”

If you were just a casual reader of these facts—an ordinary American who doesn’t think much about the Middle East after America’s traumatic wars of the 2000s—you would think Qatar is a top American ally, a trustworthy partner, and a key hub of international commerce—a country in good enough standing that the president of the United States would use its plane as Air Force One.

But Qatar is also a seat of the Muslim Brotherhood, a crucial source of financing to Hamas, a diplomatic and energy partner of Iran, a refuge for the Taliban’s exiled political leadership, financier and cheerleader of Palestinian terrorism, and the chief propagandist of Islamism through its media powerhouse, Al Jazeera, which reaches 430 million people in more than 150 countries.

Key members of Qatar’s royal family have made their admiration for Islamism—and Hamas specifically—very clear. Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of Qatar’s emir and the chairperson of an educational nonprofit funneling millions into American schools, praised the mastermind of the October 7, 2023 massacre, Yahya Sinwar: “He will live on,” she wrote on X after his death last year, “and they will be gone.”

The question is: How did a refuge of Islamist radicalism, a country criticized for modern-day slave labor, become the center of global politics and commerce? How did this tiny peninsular country of 300,000 citizens and millions of noncitizen migrant workers manage to put itself smack-dab in the center of global diplomacy—and so successfully ingratiate itself within the Trump administration?

The England We Once Respected by Nils A. Haug

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21622/england-we-once-respected

The future of Israel and its people will therefore rest on Israel’s own ability to defend its nation…

Israelis will live, and thrive, in their homeland despite ill-intent by their enemies. After all, the Jews are sacred custodians of eternal truths and morality – as the Torah makes clear. The world needs them.

“Instead of demonizing and vilifying Israel, the world should be thanking Israel for being on the front lines in saving Western civilization and the free world.” — Elon Gold, reported by David Suissa, The Jewish Journal, April 29, 2025.

As for England and all of Great Britain, the greatest empire of its time is no more — long gone. Rule Britannia no longer rules anything, not even the streets of London.

Since 1650, after a relatively undisturbed period in England of nearly 400 years, publicly expressed animosity toward the Jews is escalating. Islamist influence in Britain is growing exponentially. The UK’s weak leadership falls into a category of cognitive dissonance from reality, as does its cowardly display against vociferous and dangerous Jew-hatred on the streets of London.

Jews have a long history of residence in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, under King Edward I in 1290 CE, England was one of the first countries to expel Jews from its borders — an event which Oliver Cromwell remedied in 1650, after nearly 400 years.

Since 1650, after a relatively undisturbed period in the UK of nearly another 400 years, publicly expressed animosity toward the Jews is escalating. Towards the end of April 2025, a British journalist who frequently appeared on the BBC’s Arabic channel commenting on Gaza events, reportedly called for “Jews to be burned ‘as Hitler did.'” The BBC lamely explained that the person was not “a member of staff nor part of the BBC’s reporting team.” Even so, the BBC – Britain’s official broadcaster – has frequently allowed pro-Palestinian content and, by implication, anti-Jewish sentiment to be promoted.

Why do so many liberals have a blindspot on Jew hatred? Gary Lineker’s sharing of a ‘Zionist rat’ on Instagram confirms the lethal ignorance of the cultural elites. Brendan O’Neill

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/14/why-do-so-many-liberals-have-a-blindspot-on-jew-hatred/

I thought Gary Lineker was a dab hand at spotting things that are reminiscent of the Nazi era? Perhaps someone can explain, then, why he shared an ‘anti-Zionist’ Instagram post that was illustrated with the rat emoji. The Jew as rodent, as vermin-like pest, as the lowest and most diseased of Earth’s beasts – it doesn’t get more Nazi era than that, Gary.

Lineker is in hot water after reposting an Instagram story from the anti-Israel campaign group, Palestine Lobby. It was a post featuring a video clip titled ‘Zionism explained in two minutes’. It was the usual Zio-bashing fare that faux-liberal midwits like Lineker mistake for daring commentary. Only it was worse this time, because the post came with a cartoon rodent, twitching its filthy tale.

You don’t need a PhD in the crimes of 20th-century Europe to feel alarmed – and sickened – by such an image. The vile likening of Jews with rats was all the rage in Nazi Germany. Goebbels pumped out propaganda depicting Jews as a rodent race that ‘carry contagion, flood the continent and devour precious resources’. Der Stürmer published cartoons of Jew-rats being exterminated. ‘When the vermin are dead’, one caption said, ‘the German oak will flourish once more’.

Such gross images were central to the Nazi project of dehumanising Jews. For if Jews were rats, then their incineration in the death camps was not a crime – it was ‘pest control’. To see the ‘Jew rat’ make a comeback in 2025 is chilling in the extreme. And I swear, anyone who says the Palestine Lobby post did not liken all Jews to rats, only Zionists, is going to get slapped. You couldn’t ask for better proof that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism in a keffiyeh than the fact that some of its adherents are now even rehabilitating the rat propaganda of that darkest moment in human history.

And then Lineker comes along and shares it. What was he thinking? He says he wasn’t thinking. His agent says he ‘did not notice [the] rodent emoticon’. And if he had noticed it, ‘he would not have made any connection’, the agent says, which I guess means Lineker is unaware of the history of depicting Jews as rodents. He’s deleted it now, his agent tells us. Is it just me or is that an incredibly perfunctory statement? If I had unwittingly shared an image that echoed Nazi propaganda, I’d be a hell of a lot more contrite. I’d at least say sorry. Not our Gary, though. Maybe he thinks it’s no big deal that he reposted a Zio-rat to his 1.2million IG followers.

That Lineker ‘would not have made any connection’ even if he’d noticed the rodent emoticon doesn’t make his repost any better. In some ways it makes it worse. Why doesn’t he know that Jews were compared to rats? If someone on IG had posted a clip slamming Nigerians as the world’s most toxic people alongside an image of an ape, he’d know very well what they were playing at. His ignorance of the long, grim history of caricaturing Jews as vermin is inexcusable, especially given that he’s been wanging on about the Jewish State for 18 months solid. To use a slogan beloved of his class of imperious Remoaner tossers: ‘Educate yourself.’