Essays in Idleness

The Canadian prime minister — currently Mr Mark Carney — has a job which, like that of most politicians, requires low intelligence and moral vacuousness. At his cleverest he may exhibit a species of rat cunning. His views on Israel and the Middle East are quite uninteresting, for no rat cunning is required. He simply observes that an anti-Semitic policy is necessary, now that Muslim immigration exceeds the Jewish vote.

Not one good thing has come out of the Liberal Party since Louis St-Laurent was defeated in 1957. He, at least, achieved mediocrity. But what can we do? Canada’s population is one with the Liberals.

What happened on October 7th, 2023 — the slaughter of huge numbers of mostly unarmed Jews when Palestinians got outside the Gaza perimeter — can happen again and again. It will happen as long as Palestinians are, from childhood, taught or brainwashed to kill Jews throughout their education and social systems. I also protest against the disproportionate Israeli response. I think the Israelis have been much too restrained.

My model for “Palestine” would be Germany, or Japan. These formerly vicious nations became harmlessly bourgeois after they unconditionally surrendered to the United States and allies.  It is ludicrous to think we should have offered them a peace deal, instead.

Hamas, too, has behaved viciously, with the overwhelming support of the “Palestinians” in Gaza (and elsewhere), as Hitler once enjoyed the overwhelming support of Germans. What the Nazis did to Europe, or the Japanese to the Chinese and Americans, you must know to have the right to an opinion. Similarly, you must know what the “Palestinians” have done, and have been doing for decades, to have the right to an opinion on e.g. Hamas.

Our duty is not to force another peace treaty on Israel. It is to help the Israelis exterminate Hamas.