Extremely meaningful to see the Peace Tower at #Canada’s Parliament light up in friendship and in solidarity with the people of #Israel 🇨🇦🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/1AILivHrad
— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) October 9, 2023
To honour those whose lives have been cut short by Hamas’ terror attacks against Israel, we’re lighting the Peace Tower in blue and white – and we’ve lowered the flags on the Peace Tower, at the Prime Minister’s Office, and across Parliament Hill. Canada stands with Israel.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) October 8, 2023
... Hamas has decided to attack innocent Israeli civilians because they are self-serving terrorists who exploit others’ suffering as a vehicle for their unrelenting antisemitism.Nothing is to be gained for innocent Palestinians from these cowardly actions by Hamas, and they know that.This is about hatred of Jewish people and a denial of Israel’s right to exist and a rejection of their rumored, historic peace deal with Saudi Arabia, and it is an astonishing moral failure for anyone to suggest otherwise.It is completely absurd on the part of some to take advantage of the sheer complexity of this horrific conflict to justify the intentional targeting of civilians. You can criticize the Israeli government and not be antisemitic. You can speak out against Netanyahu’s atrocious leadership without being anti-Israel. But you cannot justify the intentional murder of civilians with criticism of the Israeli government.There is no rationalizing this. There is no moral basis for it. There is no nuance to be found here, however much some might wish there were....They are intentionally using innocent civilians as shields while they carry out their senseless acts of violent bigotry against Jewish people.Whatever happens next, it is clear that children and the elderly will suffer most, and it is obvious that Hamas is at peace with that.They need to be defeated and dismantled for the sake of all innocents, and the world needs to unite against them with that objective in mind.