I wonder how many IDF soldiers are comfortably resting in Toronto, or across Canada, complaining of hate crimes and Palestinian protestors, while their compadres murder, and continue to commit genocide all over the Middle East. You don't stop evil by shielding it or by creating laws which protect the people who commit evil. Segments of the jewish diaspora are in many ways military fronts which spread the tentacles of Zionism and/or help reinforce the Apartheid system in Israel. Other than a botched Balfour Declaration, and the lasting impact of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the latter of which had a profound and lasting impact on the modern Middle East, shaping borders, politics, and conflicts that still resonate today, Israel has no legitimacy in the Middle East.
- The UN considers settlements illegal under international humanitarian law, particularly Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying power (Israel) from transferring parts of its own population into occupied territory. Many Security Council Resolutions, including 446 (1979), 452 (1979), and 2334 (2016), have condemned settlement activities, demanding a complete halt to all such actions. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has determined that Israel's continued presence in the occupied territory is unlawful and that settlement policies, including land expropriation and population transfers, constitute a breach of international law. Settlements are viewed as a "flagrant violation" that creates a coercive environment, prevents Palestinian self-determination, and alters the demographic character of the occupied territories.
- And so we have arrived at the "Yinon Plan", which refers to a controversial article written in 1982 by Oded Yinon titled “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s.”
The Yinon Plan is not an official government policy, but an essay published in an Israeli journal. Yinon argued that Israel’s long-term security could benefit from the fragmentation of neighboring Arab states into smaller entities divided along ethnic or sectarian lines. He viewed countries like Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon as internally fragile and likely to break apart.
The key ideas in the document are that the Middle East is inherently unstable due to ethnic and religious divisions. Large Arab states might eventually split into smaller regions (e.g., Sunni, Shia, Kurdish areas in Iraq). Such fragmentation, Yinon argued, could reduce threats to Israel by weakening unified opposition. 1948 was the year the "World Stood Still" and we continue to watch as chaos preempts our lives. The game and the veiled occultists of doom and division continue their handywork.
On Lebanon by Elie Al-Chaer - Lawyer
Yesterday, Israel killed friends of mine in Beirut. Their fault: poetry, love, humility, kindness, and sect (religious belief)!
Yesterday was a day of hell for Lebanon; there is no softer way to describe it. The Israeli military, the IDF, carried out intense aerial bombardments across the country. Beirut, Sidon, Tyre, and other densely populated cities were struck—living, breathing communities: homes, families, children. Hundreds were killed, thousands wounded, and many remain buried beneath rubble. The Israelis called it “Operation Eternal Darkness,” a name that, intentionally or not, mirrors what people on the ground experienced, while also reflecting the darkness that seems to shape the aggressors’ nature and mindset.
As always, the world responds with a chilling indifference. Statements are issued, concern is “expressed,” and then the silence returns. A silence that enables violence against civilians. At some point, this tired script becomes a convenient justification for the unjustifiable, while that “darkness” becomes a lived reality for people who had nothing to do with any of those old arguments in the first place.
Equally infuriating is the chorus of justifications that inevitably follows, in Lebanon and abroad. The familiar refrain: “if not for Hezbollah… doing something in yesteryear…” As though a distorted past were an unlimited credit line for present-day destruction. It begins to sound like a toxic marriage argument—one side endlessly dredging up old grievances, not to resolve anything, but to excuse whatever comes next. Only here it is not about slammed doors or bitter words; it is about bombs, flattened neighborhoods, and erased lives. At some point, responsibility must belong to those pulling the trigger today, not to ghosts selectively summoned from the past.
The anger does not stop there. While all this unfolded, the Lebanese government seemed determined to perfect the art of irrelevance. For weeks, it insisted this war had nothing to do with Lebanon, distancing itself from the “Resistance”, stepping aside as if neutrality could shield people from falling bombs. Yet it somehow found the audacity to insist that no one should negotiate a ceasefire on Lebanon’s behalf except them. A remarkable position, especially when it left the country exposed while the IDF carried out its campaign of destruction.
One is left to wonder: is this sheer incompetence, or something more cynical? Are we governed by people hopelessly out of their depth, or by those perfectly comfortable playing their part in a much larger game at the expense of their own people?
And just when the detachment could not feel more absurd, today is declared a day of mourning. A symbolic gesture, as if symbolism could substitute for action. Instead of activating Lebanon’s embassies worldwide or directing the foreign minister to press the issue at the UN Security Council and with the U.S. ambassador, the government appears to have spent its time making new appointments, expanding a bloated, incompetent, and ineffective system with questionable figures… business as usual while the country bleeds.
I will not dwell here on the Trump administration or its complicity in Israel’s roaming genocides. The President and his own Secretary of War Crimes are making that case well enough on their own.
Lebanon is mourning, but it is also furious; furious at the devastation inflicted by Israel’s bombardment, furious at a world that looks away, and furious at a leadership that has done little but stand aside while its people suffer. How many more lives must be lost before outrage becomes unavoidable? How much more destruction before indifference is no longer an option?
Don't you dare protest in Canada, for you may upset evil-doers.
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