Thanks to François Brousseau who expressed out loud, on this Monday, December 4, what I have been thinking quietly for a while: whatever one thinks of the murderous actions of Hamas — and I condemn them, obviously —, what happening right now in Gaza defies all belief. A state claiming to be free and democratic, Israel, claims to defend itself by relentlessly bombing civilian populations. He starves them, injures them, kills them in large numbers. Thousands of children died. Today there are 1.8 million displaced people. They are told: “Go south” and the Israeli army bombs the south. It is the horror. How, despite our genuine sympathy for the Israeli victims, murdered or taken hostage, can we approve of this carnage “without common sense”?
And how can we forget that for 75 years, the Palestinian people have lived under occupation? How can we not see that even today, Jewish colonies are being established in the West Bank, with the explicit agreement of the most right-wing government that Israel has known since its founding?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government shamelessly dehumanizes Palestinians. He does not care about the suffering experienced by a bloodless population. There it is, the moral defeat that François Brousseau speaks of. Faced with this, we, free and democratic people, have a moral obligation: to demand that the Canadian government show courage and demand a ceasefire. Because one day we will have to build peace between the two peoples. A much more difficult mission than dropping bombs on a devastated people.
To watch on video