Pro-Palestinian protests disrupt public events in Toronto over weekend
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- čas přidán 7. 01. 2024
- Over the weekend, there were numerous protests in Toronto, causing disruptions to public events.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupted a free skate event hosted by Mayor Olivia Chow on Sunday, calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict. The crowd shouted at the mayor as she attempted to continue with her remarks.
In another incident, Toronto police officers were seen handing over coffee and treats to protestors, which sparked controversy.
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We need to be Pro Canada and not Pro Terrorism.
So you oppose Israel murdering thousands of children to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
Archeological evidence a conversion took place.
The Khazar "Moses coin" found in the Spillings Hoard and dated c. 800. It is inscribed with "Moses is the messenger of God" instead of the usual Muslim text "Muhammad is the messenger of God".
Jewish symbols - menorah, etrog and lulav, engraved on ancient Roman brick probably reused during early medieval period by Khazars, semi-nomadic Turkic people from eastern Europe and central Asia.
This artifact was found in one of the graves at necropolis from early medieval period, 8th-9th century, at Čibska šuma archaeological site near Čelarevo, Bačka region, Vojvodina province, northern Serbia.
The brick is telling the less known story of Jewish nomads in Pannonian basin - during early medieval period, in 8th and 9th century, nomadic tribe which practiced Judaism settled in the Pannonian basin among Slavs and Avars. These people came from the east, along with Avars and settled in vast plains of Pannonian basin in present-day northern Serbia. It is assumed that they were members of the Khazars, semi-nomadic Turkic people from eastern Europe and central Asia, who adopted Judaism and moved to the west, to central Europe.
Here is one of their artifacts, ancient Roman brick reused by those nomads who engraved symbols of Judaism on it - menorah (seven-branched candelabrum), etrog and lulav, plants used during specific portions of the holiday prayers in Judaism. Also, on some bricks are engraved inscriptions translated as Jehuda or Yahweh and Israel. This is just one of many bricks from this site with these Jewish symbols.
An extensive DNA analysis conducted by a Israeli geneticist
Eran Elhaik, a geneticist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, is calling for a rewrite of commonly held assumptions about Jewish ancestry. Instead of being primarily the descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel, present-day Jewish populations are, finds Elhaik, primarily the children of a Turkish people who lived in what is now Russia, north of Georgia, east of Ukraine. This civilization, the Khazars, converted from tribal religions to Judaism between the 7th and 9th centuries.
The complete data set contained 1287 unrelated individuals of 8 Jewish and 74 non-Jewish populations, genotyped over 531,315 autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The author has applied a wide range of population genetic analyses to compare the two hypotheses and showed that a sole Judean ancestry cannot account for the vast population of Eastern European Jews in the beginning of the twentieth century without the major contribution of Judaized Khazars.
Being pro humanitarian is more important than being pro Canadian or to any nation in the universe
@@NearestGalaxyi agree, get rid of terrorism!! I stand with Israel 🇮🇱
It's Genocide in Palestine of its people 🔴
I think we just figured out why property taxes are about to go through the roof! Keep it up!!!
🤨
Because you throw put too much garbage?? Because your property has skyrocketed in value thanks to policy that brought in the recent inflation.
One should be thankful that one is making tons and tons of money (from appreciation of property) while doing nothing but just enjoying the free ride of housing inflation.
One can't get a turkey as a gift and still complain about having to spit out the turkey bones!! Too much greed would be really gross.
@@SadDays-21 Sure, and when MPAC reassesses your dwelling and your taxes go up 40% but you arent selling your house so you get zero economic value back, you can just sit back and pay the piper.
@@SadDays-21people are only getting more money on paper. In reality only people who buy low and sell high make money. The rest is just stuck with higher groceries bills.
Yes, it’s Arturo governments failure to manage the flow of population and to do basic economics that’s who’s that fault
Were the police scared of being put '6ft deep' if they didn't deliver the coffee?
Underrated comment, bravo 👏
My take is most Canadians ( that includes our cops) are well intentioned; and just see this as a ‘democracy in action’ and we are used to ‘being nice’ as a people.
The law enforcement just needs more sensitivity training into how this is not just any protest asking for some form of justice; rather it’s a call for extermination/genocide against Israel and Jewish people all over the world. Literally a call for mass murder fuelled by religious hate. This is not a regular protest. We need to educate people more on this ❤
Yeah, that’s been long debunked and tired. You’re using outdated talking points that are imaginary. Unless you live in some dystopian, Disneyland, imaginary world? Or you’re just a fake propagandist
There's nothing wrong in voicing out what they're fighting for. Protest all they want, but interfering with other people's day-to-day lives, their safety and worse, hindering the flow of Canadian economy is where the line should be drawn. There are more effective ways to convey a message especially to the country's leaders, but creating unnecessary nuisance to the lives of normal people is by far the absolute worst way to do it.
Deportation should be a thing
the liberals would lose all thier supporters
who said they are not from here
Sure
Off you go
@@luannecorlett4683 fine send back their parents.
It should be, so that all of our immigrant families, basically anyone here who’s not indigenous. Would have to be subject to answer to violations of the law, including our constitutional rights, which is the highest and most honoured law of the land, which proceeds all of laws. And these folks are exercising their constitutional rights. Luckily, they won’t have to face any issues.
If pro-israel groups behaved the way these protesters do, they would be arrested not given coffee. I'm ashamed to say that this happened in the city I was born in.
Pro Israel protests, as the Canadian public can see plainly, conduct themselves differently; ditto the Persians who turned out peacefully & with utmost dignity in their tens of thousands for their demonstrations. I implore the Canadian public to take note of the value systems on display.
Toronto died 25 years ago...
@@jonathanmaister2153 I watched an interview with Salman Sima yesterday who attempted to counter-protest with Canadian flag.
The Police had just stopped some protestors who had gone to get coffee for their fellow protestors...our good samaratins just brought the coffee to them and they were not allowed back in. Sometimes its easy to accuse without knowing the truth behind this.l I've seen the police in action at Union strikes and they are very polite, they are there to keep the peace. I am opposed that the P's are allowed to disrupt our city and country - Sat & Sun in Toronto....they should be tagged and deported. Citizenship can be given but also taken away....what they are doing is criminal.
@@verar5844 Salman is a true gem. He's a fine asset to the Canadian fabric.
What you see is anarchy in action, not democracy.
Anarchy is the purest form of democracy.
@Make_American_Native_Again not if only one side is entitled to it. We couldn't even celebrate Canada day a few years ago, we see people get harrased for carrying Canada flags. Truckers protests? Fined, bank accounts frozen, why isn't that happening here? Canada no longer equal, barley represents a democracy. What a farce of a country these minorities are turning it into. Joke
Not only if one side gets to participate.@@Make_America_Native_Again
Explain how that is the case.@@maryanndeweerd2570
@@Make_America_Native_Againlol saying something nonsensical as if it makes sense doesn’t mean it makes sense 😂
Why are they not getting arrested or fined. Is Closing down streets without a permit allowed? Verbally assaulting people is permitted? You can protest but not if you do the above. I have been evolved in organizing public events in the city and the amount of permits and fees required to be allowed is huge. Why is there no permits required for these type of demonstrations when there are huge amount of resources and cost involved?
And yet they continue with complete impunity. Disrupting everybody's lives.
Don't blame them, blame the "police" that bring them coffee instead of telling them what's right & what's wrong.
Well they're trudeaus chosen
shocking... maybe Trudeau should freeze their bank accounts... and all that support them
well they didn't have freedom in their own country now when we give it to them they get drunk on it lol
Go over and fight protesting to a bunch of Canadians skating or a city mayor will do nothing. In fact I don't even think most Canadians care anymore we've moved on
@@user-vt8kv6gy9l Canadians know very well that Iran, Russia and N Korea are allies and are launching simultaneous wars. War will not stop until Putin is stopped. Canadians are not interested in involving themselves in a so-called final solution to the Jewish problem so stop wasting our time. Go talk to Claudine Gay.
@@user-vt8kv6gy9l then what about when Syrians and Yemenis were being killed? What about Uyghurs being sent to concentration camps? It’s bold to call Canadians apathetic given these protesters never said a word about other places experiencing genocide.
These people are awful
Just a question. How much is policing these protests across the country costing the taxpayers?
Deporting would be cheaper
Much Less than Military Aid to the Apartheid State, and the ennemies that makes
How much does it cost taxpayers with the money Canada sends to Israel & Ukraine?
@@yeshuabinyankee5017 Calling something apartheid doesn't just make it apartheid.
Think about children of Palestine 🔴
Emergency Act? This was the exact reasoning.
Fanatics will never believe their people do anything wrong
It's a shame we have to put up with this garbage
Pierre Poilievre + Justin Trudeau: Israel has a right to defend itself. Gee big surprise someone got upset.
Lawful demonstrations do not include protesting inside malls, blocking critical infrastructures such as our highways and causing disturbances at the expense of other residents. BIG NO
These people have become an epic nuisance to the general public. The tax paying public.
amen
@@on2thenextthingtax payers only care when it directly effects them but not when our american countries sends israel BILLIONS of our money
and many more are on their way over too@@on2thenextthing
SPECIALLY over something that is not even happening in your own country!
A PM who wont call them out because theyre his voter base... Truly disgusting
and literally no one can criticize anything Israel has ever done lest they be smeared an "anti-semite" and have their lives ruined.
Someone tell the rioters that their Tim Horton's coffee supports the IDF.
Businesses can support whoever they like.
@@ramit439 . . . and reap the consequences.
Really? I think I could go for a double double...
@@w.benson3011Starbucks supporting 🕎 🇮🇱
@@w.benson3011 What consequences were you thinking of? Care to specify?
When an act of protest is considered bad enough the the Emergency Act is thrown upon one group but another group gets a pat on the back and coffee is wrong.
yet no MP will care Jagmeet is loving it, Poilievre doesn't care and is 2 faced af, and Trudeau is allowing them to come and commit hate speech
Were there over 22,000 people murdered at the trucker event? Have some humanity.😢
@@Lindisfarnefarmer it does not matter the cause . The law should be the same for all …. Don’t be dense
its mainly because the Palestinians protestors aren't a threat to the current power in government.....the truckers on the other hand were a "threat of a good" example if you will
Another example of assuming everyone on one side is right and everyone on the other is wrong.
Continue inviting Muslims in, their values are very much in line with Canadian values and Western civilization, certainly nothing will go wrong. They will come in and embrace the Canadian values of freedom, democracy, and peace. 👌
Sarcasm? I hope!
It's the religion of peace after everyone is dead.
Lol
When muslims are in minority they want minority rights when muslims are in majority there are no minority rights. Look at tje state of democracy and human rights in the membership of the organisation of islamic countries.
Western independence.
this is because the police brings hamas protestors coffee. The cops have NEVER brought Jewish protestors coffee.
The “what aboutism” is thick and nasty
@@user-fb5ef3jh3r : 'Thick and nasty' BUT 'reality and fact'!
don't worry, you have the mainstream media on your side...well soon to end since they cannot avoid reporting on the genocide
@@user-fb5ef3jh3r giving coffee to Jewish prootesters is nasty? treating Jewish protesters the same as Palestinian ones is nasty?? Really??
Sometimes a protest DOES block traffic but immigrants who have come to our once free and safe country and start accosting our citizens on their OWN agendas is a HUGE NO. You support your country that you fled from?? Go back there and support them they need you!
Question is ...what gives u the impression that they weren't born here ? Hmm ...
@@aimendoudar8680by the way they act and their non Canadan self entitled attitude. Thats how 👍.
@@aimendoudar8680 well I certainly hope that they aren't behaving like that if they were born here. I guess it would just be a feeling that they would not be treating their fellow Canadians that way and plus the fact that they seem to care more about the country they are supporting than the one they either came to or were born in.
The countries they ruined and seek to bully real Canadians...
If they are from Palestine (which they may not be), they will NOT BE ALLOWED IN BY ISRAEL.
Good for toronto. Olivia chow needs to raise taxes and change the city's name and hire more police to serve coffee
I’m so sad to see what my city has become…a terror supporting caliphate
As a newly landed immigrant and or refugee if you break the law with a serious offense in the first 5 years of living here you should immediately be deported and have immigration rights revoked from ever being allowed in again that would stop any lunacy ..protesting is OK
5 years. Make it forever. Because the kids grow up with the same hatred.
Too bad the gov doesn't care who they let in they are protected and once they are finished destroying us they can leave.
@@annsumner8570 They won't leave they'll just take over.
Standing against genocide is human. They are merely highlighting the atrocious behaviour of Israel.
@@seanocarolan359 What about Hamas atrocities. Hamas builds tunnels to hide in with foreign aid money meant for civilians . Hamas says civilians are not their responsibility so the billions of dollars they stole from aid, meant for civilions, they hadn't built even one bunker for them.
Hamas loves martyrs well now they're getting their wish come true by their own doing. Shall I go on? Na, would take all night to type that out.
Protestors, not taxpayers should pay the cops.
When your home get burn down in a fire, you should pay the fireman, not taxpayers? When you get sick because you don't eat healthy enough and you don't exercise and rest enough, you should pay your hospital bills, not the taxpayers?? And smokers should pay for most of their medical bills, not tax payers?? If not, then don't complain about tax payers paying for police to maintain safety and peace during a protest.
@@SadDays-21 There's little or no logic in what you said. You have to take it from a purposeful illegal act that causes a negative to others. The only close example would be smokers but even then, there's no real direct evidence how you got sick and smoking isn't illegal.
The person is basically saying the protesters should pay the wages of the cops since they're allowing it to happen and we the taxpayer, shouldn't. Knowing full well that would never happen, even if just for the time spent helping their protest be 'safe'.
@@hebber1961 Protesting is our legal right. There is nothing illegal about it.
@@huggtrees I'm sure you have that misinformation based on the fact that police generally look the other way in recent years to most left-wing protests that breach the law but in fact it's not legal to block roads or rail. Same with some public spaces and private ones like shopping malls without permission or a permit. They also look the other way to violent acts they do during the protests so as to not inflame the situation. Or at least that's the excuse they give.
@@hebber1961 Show me evidence of one act of violence at a Pro-Palestinian protest, other than police-instigated aggression. They are family-friendly community organized events to protest Canadian complicity in Israel's genocide. You are literally making that up because it suits your narrative. Protest routes are shared with the police ahead of time. It is ABSOLUTELY our legal right to protest.
There two sets of rules in this country Just ask the peaceful truckers compared to these Palestine supporters Way past time charges start getting laid
100%. No confidence in this country anymore. The liberal bias is unbelievable.
EXACTLY!
Its nauseating watching this.
peaceful truckers, you got to be kidding
🤣🤣🤣🤣 "peaceful truckers"
Protesting here is doing nothing. I suggest they go to Israel where their message will have some weight. Leave our cities out of this.
wow. really disgusting that all this is happening and trudy thinks its ok. Clearly not the same standards applied to everyone. Are these people deplorable too?
Exactly where’s the emergency act for these terrorist
Shame on Canada to allow these evil people protesting evilness
This is Canada not palostine or packistain oflr what ever country these people come from and why dont they have Jon's like the redt of us o right the government od paying the rent and heath care and we got Canadians living in the streets what's up
Protests being conducted in that manner are going to find themselves sooner or later on the wrong side of public sympathy, perhaps in Ontario Canada this is more true than almost anywhere in the world.
Everyone is here, from all types of backgrounds and experiences. Once these 2000 unique communities turn on you because you're disrupting their right to peaceful daily life.. you're pretty much done.
It might actually be the last place you will get away with publicly harassing people long-term.
So basically what you are saying is genocide is perfectly acceptable?
@@LindisfarnefarmerNo
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King Jr
Ignorant people are very dangerous people, for sure!!!
Thank you for coming to my country on taxpayer dime, respecting the locals and strengthening and enriching our communities 🙏
Your country?
said no one ever
Ya MY Country,, it was conquered 200 years ago.@@Lindisfarnefarmer
@@ponokareject And we ain't giving it back
Our once proud country has become such a joke, thanks Trudeau!!!!
Unfortunately the joke will be on our poor children.
F Trudeau for bringing hamas into Canada!
One does not call for ceasefire while waving the flag of only one side.
Try showing up to a pro-palestine rally with an Israeli flag and see how peaceful the crowd is.
Two pro-China 🇨🇳 groups have admitted to helping Olivia Chow in her mayoral election.
- This shows immediate actions are needed to curb Chinese regime's interference into Canadian elections.
What has she done for China?
@@TravisSloat-ln2xvNone. She doesn't even like the CCP. But the fact that the election was interfered.
What lies!
Who voted this potsticker in?
@@TravisSloat-ln2xv She didn't even like the CCP.
But the Chinese government did interfere in her election.
Trudeau's diversity and inclusion. 😂😂
Would it be approached differently if they were TRUCK DRIVERS ??
Obviously since it was
hmm, served coffee via police vs trampled by police horses & thrown in jail....why such different responses
Protest of any kind should be designated to a static location
This is Canada! We do not support terrorism.
How peaceful community is.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
religion of peace
Follow the laws in effect in Canada. Protest in your own countries.
who said they are not from here
@@luannecorlett4683 Lol, take a look at them. Definitely not real Canadians
they look like it to me
exactly, do they have to be white
@@luannecorlett4683 Lol, yes
They disrespect everyone
Menacing behaviours of these people who constantly harassing us every where we are, in airport, highways, schools, churches, public parks, shopping malls, they are disrespecting Canadian society ....this kind of lunatic behaviours needs to STOP!!
Ppl have the right to protest Sir
There is Genocide happening right in front of our eyes.....
You just need to be human to understand
what the heck is Canadian society
help stop the Genocide and this will stop
Go fight your own battles for once. Our men and women fought and died for the freedoms we have now.
Why havent you protested for Yemen or North Korea with the same passion? Its one thing doing it in front of parliament or city hall. But bothering everyday citizens from enjoying their lives is unacceptable and disrespectful to our troops who actually paid in blood.
I remember when there were hardly any Muslims in my country, it was a lot more quiet and peaceful back then.
I know, we didn’t protest when Germany were killing the Jews,gypsies,Polish and anyone who stood in their way, nor did we let Jews into Canada. We know how that worked out. Genocide is wrong, no matter who is doing it. Canada has done its own genocide, not proud of our record either.
This is my question to the protesters Them ...who starts the war isit hamas are isreal ...if you dont no it was hamas .. not israel ...so dont blame israel for anything that have todowith the war ....
Did you hear her say that protesters were a sign of democracy. Bringing wars from other countries by protesters running in the streets is not democracy but from a dictatorship from violent countries. Peaceful protests should be carried out in a convention center like political parties. Most civilized events are held indoors, hockey games/ football games are held indoors. To empead the free movement of any citizens especially children should be outlawed and arrests should be made and if any are foreign citizens they must be deported.
I didn’t see them giving coffee to the truckers in Ottawa, who just simply wanted to go to work, under the “my body, my choice” option
The police should do there job and not by serving donuts & coffee to people breaking the law .
The Toronto police are not helping , in fact they seem to be supporting this... makes me think who's side they are on 🤔
The police were being decent, should be commended. Thanks to police.
They aren’t on the side of the Canadian people and haven’t been for while
PRO-CANADA not PRO-Terrorism. 🇨🇦 Citizens will act if Law Enforcement continues to ignore. We have people dying here on sidewalks in cold. We are all tired of hearing about the victims of Hamas . They created the war let them deal with it. God bless my struggling Canadian and US citizens.
Hamas is responsible let them face the consequences. PLEASE Keeep Canada away from this.
Well with the fools on the hill we are headed for bad times.
In March 2019, netanyahu said to his Likud colleagues: “anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering H*mas and transferring money to H*mas … This is part of our strategy - to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank".
You are in North America. And you presume you know the history and politics of a country with different views, politics, way of life... You are no scholar, God, or a rich and powerful entity. Sit in your place.
What do they honestly expect to achieve by this?
Ikr? They should realize that no one here gaf about their cause. They should have immigrated to an Islamic country if they wanted sympathy. None of our politicians are going to solve a conflict that started 2000 years ago.
Fear and intimidation..
Like every other country they do this in
Cultural enrichment
This is ridiculous!
Don’t you need a permit to have a major protest? And if so, why are permits being granted for all these protests? Some of them seem to be needlessly disruptive. Blocking roads, even on the weekend, is somewhat questionable.
Funny how these people ALWAYS paint themselves as the victims! Perhaps they should stop starting fights they can't finish!
Instead of just being pro Palestine, how about we focus on both sides and don’t pick a side and beg for both litres to come to an agreement because from my understanding Palestine has two kinds of government. They have the good government that we side with and the bad government that is being attacked and everyone is signing with the bad government Hamas attacked Israel unprovoked
The strategy of "don't pick a side" is actually picking the side of ongoing oppression and genocide against the people of Gaza.
"Unprovoked" It's unprovoked if you ignore the last 80 years of israeli history. What's next? Residential schools being closed down was 'unprovoked' too?
Disgusting. Disgusting that we have allowed this.
Me?? I never allowed this. That was the biggest reason I voted for Harper in 15, because he knew.
This has to stop. Couple of weeks ago they in side Mall.
Go front embassy or parliament not in Mall
Scaring kids as they wanted to see Santa. Disgusting and the cops. Just such a pathetic country.
This is despicable!
Where were the cops when people were stopping traffic with machetes!?
Hiding.
Free Canada from Palestine
Right on.
Can you imagine our forefathers not fighting in ww2 but instead going to another country and protest 😂😂😂
Start arresting. Ffs
If the Palestinians were such good people I wonder Y Egypt, Jordan, & other countries in that division wont allow them into their countries ❓🤔
They treated to cops in their face 6 feet under, and the cops didn’t do anything.
I think the Dutch and Germans and Italians are getting it right.
I'm curious about a time when the protestors motivation will be addressed in a meaningful manner.
This is ridiculous....
Call the emergency act
Won’t happen . WEF .
Libs really backed themselves into a corner with this one...
"AnTiSeMiTiSm" vs "IsLaMoPhObiA"
Chose your most oppressed group & meaningless buzz word.
this is not canadas problem
Oh yes it is because that swamp in ottawa make it our problem. Mostly it will be our kids problems.
While I am disturbed when I hear about armed conflict where civilians are harmed or killed, I do not see these protests helpful in any way. This does not have anything to do with Canadian citizens not to mention the fact that what is going on in isreal and gaza is not a result of anything we have done. To be confronted and inconvenienced over an issue that was not caused by any of our actions is ridiculous. I “Hate” one thing and one thing only when it comes to this issue. Blind Hatred. I’m convinced there are allot of completely innocent people caught in the middle of this horrible fight. Helpless and powerless people on both sides.
Even pointing a finger of blame via the media is futile. It just fuels more hate. With emotions running this high for so many decades , there are bound to be individuals on both sides who are guilty of acting out of hatred instead of forgiveness. I do not envy anyone who is tasked with sorting out the sheep from the wolves in disguise and bringing those responsible to face justice.
Must be nice to live in your bubble where everyone is equal, everyone is a victim, everyone is right, all while thinking "why can't we all just get along". Someday you'll have to pick a side to protect your family. By then, it will be too late. Your Police, who are just people, who think just like you do, will have given those who are against you the upper hand.
@@JohnDoe-xv1se you have been listening to the news too much.
@@timneufeld2700 Yes, it's never a good thing when someone is informed on the subject of which they speak. They're able to point out the flaws in your logic, or lack thereof. The news is under-reporting the insidiousness of these mindless zealots targeting my community. Or do you deny that our schools and businesses have been fire bombed? Do you deny that our protestors have been attacked? That our stores have seen violent protestors invade and trespass? And finally, that protesters have attempted to cut off my community and expose our children to their hate? Of course you do. You hide behind your ignorance, you simply "deny". You're just "liv'in the Tic-Tok and Twitter lies". Games over. Tide has turned. Your lies are exposed.
Should Israel halt the war?
I’m a Srilankan. It was the year 2009. The Sri Lankan government was fighting the LTTE.
The terror group had taken positions among civilians, even recruiting child soldiers and shooting dead any civilian who tried to leave the war zone.
The Sri Lankan government came under heavy pressure to halt the war because civilian casualties were mounting. But the army pressed on till the LTTE chief Prabhakaran was killed.
The result was not only peace, but also deliverance of the Tamil civilians from the grip of the terror group. Of course it came at the cost of huge civilian casualties.
This is the nature of modern assymetric warfare with terror groups. They position themselves among the civilians, while the army is unable to neutralise them without inflicting civilian casualties. And the media calls for ceasefire - the very thing the terrorists want in order to re-group, replenish and relaunch terror attacks ! (Exactly what happened during the 2 year ceasefire that ended in 2004)
Had my country Sri Lanka yielded to international pressure (including from the US) at that time, the LTTE chief would have survived and the war would have dragged on. In 2024, we may have still been counting casualties every week!
It is only because Prabhakaran was eliminated that the war in Sri Lanka came to an end.
This is the exact same story playing out in Palestine today and I’ve come to realize that Ceasefires don’t help bring peace, it only postpones civilian deaths to another date. Its been almost 15 years since the war ended and there haven’t been a single bomb blast initiated by LTTE, there haven’t been any civilian casualties, tourism is booming, there have been several peaceful elections and people in South live in peace with people in North. All because Srilankan government completely disregarded calls for ceasefire and pushed the war until the very end and completely wiped out the Terrorists.
Very astute observation from someone who saw the reality of such a situation. Thank you for this.
" What you allow, you approve.
So if i turned by car sideways and blocked a road and refused to move I would be arrested but if i stand in the middle of the road and wave a foreign flag and block traffic the police will come out and protect me! The law the country and the politicians are so upside down we are all doomed into a life of stupidity
here the problem, HAMAs , and Palestine looking for sympathy for a war they started.
They are ridiculous. They are dangerous and it is driving this country over the brink.
Very true
Looks more like palastine is occupying canada.
Helping left wing extremist criminals break the law to illegally protest is not what we pay the police or politicians of canada for. We need appropriate accountability for all brought back to our society, no more permitting extreme left/woke crime
You call 20 people a demonstration?!!!?
Police did NOT get and pay for the coffee ! A demonstrator ordered the coffee and had it delivered by UBER. The Uber driver could not get through police lines, so he handed the coffee to police, who handed it to a demonstrator. BIG DEAL !
Giving them food and coffee when they have free will to disperse and leave and get their own provisions is absolutely nuts and enabling
Western independence and a 60foot wall.
CANADA IS BROKEN
Protesting in the streets, blocking the every day person from getting home or to work will make the regular every day person hate what you are protesting about. Look at what happened to just stop oil protester.
Stay out of the streets! Leave the every day working person alone!
Not one single person on that road can stop the crap going on in other countries so stay out of the road!!
Welcome to haos like in France and Belgium thans to those emigrants
Please, stop using " Democracy ".. it is all symbolic.
Please don't bring your problem from oversea to Canada....if you choose to live here.
Olivia should maje it clear and straight, not joke!
What happened to Canada?
Sadly our politicians have made public statements choosing a side on this, which turned this into a domestic issue. Both Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre have been extremely vocal.
Send the protesters to Palestine. They escaped from there just to bring the war to Canada.
Go protest in their country. Are they not supposed to be Canadian citizens now or are they not.
No they are not, they are the 1st wave.
They start to get too excited and disrespectful.
They should stop watching their phone for a week or two.
People are being murdered across the pond are upset because they are being inconvenienced
Where’s the emergency act for these terrorist ?
They can't because this isn't happening in one city.
ceasfire now ? dont they know hamas broke the ceasefire . By definition a Ceasefire is a temporary thing , "Temporary Suspension of Hostilities: The primary feature of a ceasefire is the temporary halt of armed conflict. It's important to note that a ceasefire is not the same as a peace treaty, which is a more permanent agreement to end a war." .... these people either dont undestand what a ceasefire is or just want to re arm and continue.
Good. Everyone should be appalled by whats happening to innocent Palestinians. 😢
Innocent?? Prove it.
There are no innocent Palestinians and UNRWA proves that.
Innocent Palestinians were all killed by Hamas long before the war.