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Jean-Paul Ruszkowski's avatar

Eduardo,

I don’t know where you get your information on what is happening in Canada with Islam and Antisemitism.

You seem to be magnifying anecdotal experience. I have not seen any data or studies about Canada adopting shariah law etc..,

The Canadian government’s position on the Middle East has been consistent for decades. We support the State of Israel, we also recognize the rights of the Palestinian people. I have never heard that Canada has changed its position. We will support Israel. The neighbours have to recognize the right for Israel to live in peace. If the neighbourhood does not guarantee Peace for Israel, there will be no free Palestine.

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Eduardo del Buey's avatar

Hi Jean Paul. I have never said that Canada has or will adopt sharia law. What I have said is that the tens of thousands of demonstrators across Canada who have been occupying the streets and campuses are calling for sharia and for jihad and intifada. They are also calling for the destruction of Israel and the murder of all Jews. In all of this, the Trudeau government and the mayors and police of Toronto and Montreal are allowing these people to run rampant. That is something I abhor and will fight against. As well, a negotiated settlement between Israel and PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran is impossible because the Palestinians are calling for one state void of Jews. Canada's call for a two state solution is laudable, but where is the Palestinian side?

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Katalin Poor's avatar

I'm starting to think that this idea of nations is simply never going to work. The larger they are, the more difficult they are to govern, and the more likely they are to attract the kinds of people who are ruthless enough to do it. I know it's not likely to change in the lifetime of anyone alive today, but wouldn't humanity's best hope to be to live in clans coordinated by AI? For the first time in human history, we have that technology. But throughout human history we've had madmen and a few madwomen (might have been more but for the patriarchal limitations on the ability of women to exercise power) claiming to know what's good for us and having the power to impose themselves on us at any cost...to us. Your article is yet another reminder of how another one is coming up the pipe here. Harepaw won't be the first. The same mentality as those in authority who tried to wipe out our Indigenous Peoples. Definitely not the Canada I dream of.

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Eduardo del Buey's avatar

Interesting idea Kati. But somehow people would have to cooperate since many of our problems don't respect clans or borders. Global warming, mass epidemics, trade and commerce, and other global problems don't respect borders or clans. In the end, we might wind up with a world order governed by AI-- with little human control. Ideas to be considered. Big abrazo!

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Katalin Poor's avatar

Yup, it definitely takes cooperation...which human beings are incapable outside of a group the size of a clan...and even then. As I've said, until compassion is legislated (as in never), human beings are simply not up to the complex task of successfully governing themselves.

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George Jacoby's avatar

Trudeau Jolie following an excellent international.and internal.policy on Middle East of desescalation, ceasefire and above all a 2,state solution to end Israrli occupation apartheid and plausible genocide in Gaza and aggressive war in Lebanon.

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Eduardo del Buey's avatar

Wrong as usual George. Neither Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, nor the PLO want a two state solution. They all want a one state solution with no Jews.

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