Blaming Iran for Rise in Tensions in Middle East
Following Iran's missile strikes on targets in Israel on October 1, the response from Canada was once again shameful in lockstep with U.S. strategy. This strategy is to help the Zionist state of Israel wipe out the resistance to occupation in Gaza even if it means giving a green light to Israeli genocide of an entire people. It means supporting what they call diplomacy to engineer the aim of maintaining U.S. hegemony over the entire region. Their calls for ceasefires and support or withdrawal of support for the delivery of humanitarian aid are all conditioned by this U.S. aim.
When Iran launched missile strikes on military targets in Israel on October 1, the strikes were in response to Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinians, expansion of war into Lebanon, and targeted assassinations of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Abbas Nilforoushan and other leaders in Beirut on September 27. It was also in response to the brazen killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July about which the Security Council of the United Nations has done nothing to stop Israel or its U.S. backer.
Iran invoked Article 51 of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations titled "Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression."
Article 51 states: "Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security."
Prime Minister Trudeau who had nothing to say when Israel attacked Iran's sovereignty when it assassinated Haniyeh, speaking about the Iranian response which specifically targeted Israeli intelligence and military assets, said: "We unreservedly condemn Iran's ballistic missile attack against Israel. It is further destabilizing action by this terrorist regime in the region, putting civilians at risk and running the risk of a wider war."
The Prime Minister has based Canada's policy on promoting self-serving U.S. imperialist definitions of what constitutes a terrorist act and on this basis upholding Israel's alleged right to self defence. This is the case even though the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has pointed out it does not have a right to self-defence because it is an occupying power with responsibilities, beginning with its obligation to end the occupation and recognize the Palestinian people's right of return.
This same Prime Minister has never condemned Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people, for which even the ICJ has found it culpable and reminded member states of their responsibility to uphold its rulings.
This is the same Prime Minister who never tires of saying that his government and he himself are the greatest champions of the rights of women but remains silent when thousands upon thousands of women and children are slaughtered by the U.S./Zionist genocide in Gaza in the name of high ideals.
To cover his irresponsible stand, having suggested that it is Iran which is a terrorist state and is provoking war, Trudeau feigned concern saying Canada stands against the war spreading.
"We have to try and do everything we can to avoid a wider war, to protect civilians and to get humanitarian aid into [the] affected region... As an international community, we have to continue to do everything we can to call for peace and stability, which means calling for a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and getting back on track for a two-state solution," Trudeau said.
This is as disingenuous and fraudulent as it gets because all along for the last 76 years, since Canada became one of the first countries to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, it has enabled the Zionist state to massacre Palestinian civilians, destroy their homes and helped armed settlements on Palestinian lands. It has financed the building and maintenance of "Canada Park" which is on the land of destroyed Palestinian villages. Canada continues to send weapons to Israel and encourage business with Israeli high tech companies and others, while the whole world is watching the U.S./Zionist regimes commit genocide in Gaza.
The other cartel parties in the Parliament take the same stand. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre wrote on X: "Horrified by Tehran's latest assault against innocent Israeli civilians with missile barrages and terrorist attacks." He added, "Conservatives support Israel's right to defend itself and defeat the terrorists."
This at a time the entire world sees every day on their television screens and through social media who are the terrorists, and the racist fraud and crimes the members of what has become known as the Genocide Cartel perpetrate by turning truth on its head, presenting themselves as the true members of civilization against barbarian hordes.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh stated: "What's going on in Israel, the fact that they're being bombed by both a terrorist organization like Hezbollah and by Iran, it's deeply concerning ... What we have seen is a complete disregard for innocent lives and we know it is contrary to international law to have collective punishment. The idea that innocent lives are just collateral damage is fundamentally wrong and it violates international law."
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly acknowledged that Israel has vowed that there would be "severe consequences" for Iran. She stated on October 2 that "Canada's role right now, Canada's goal, is to make sure that there's no full-scale war in the Middle East, and so that's why we'll continue to engage diplomatically."
This talk about diplomacy has been revealed to be a mechanism and cover to give the U.S./Zionist forces leeway to complete their genocidal mission, while the U.S. wheels and deals to keep all the countries of the region under its security and political umbrella. In other words, it is part of the U.S. strategy to keep its hegemony over the Arab States in particular as well as others, by getting them implicated in a deal which helps destroy the political, civic and military leadership as freely chosen by the Palestinian people in the creation of a Palestinian state. By seeking to destroy and dislodge Hezbollah, they are seeking the same outcome in Lebanon.
At this time, it is very evident that the way to avert a wider war is for Israel to exit Gaza, stop attacking Lebanon, respect terms for a prisoner exchange and permit the people all the humanitarian aid they need, beginning with food, clean water, medical aid and safe places to live in the coming winter conditions. But Canada is in lock step with the U.S. in creating diversions to green-light Israel's "severe consequences."
Canada will never be forgiven so long as it is complicit with such crimes against humanity.
For his part, Canada's ambassador to the UN Bob Rae, speaking his nonsense which blames Iran for tensions in the Middle East, told CTV News: "This [the Resistance] is an operation that is run out of Iran. I have been saying this for a long time. Iran is very much leading the charge and using their proxies, their proxies in Syria, their proxies in Lebanon and their proxies in Gaza. That has led to the attack by Hamas which in turn completely dramatically transformed the situation from a security point of view."
To cover up Canada's refusal to recognize the right of the Palestinian people to determine their own Palestinian state without outside interference, and that the current state of Israel is a racist apartheid state responsible for untold crimes against the Palestinian people and population within Israel itself, Rae noted that there is no "military solution" to the conflict and that a "two-state solution" in Palestine is "fundamental" for Canada.
Canada's repetition about a two-state solution is hollow indeed given the racist apartheid nature of the state of Israel which will not permit the existence of an independent Palestinian state. Rae also argued that it is difficult for Israel to engage in de-escalating the situation when the "other parties show no signs, zero signs of being willing to de-escalate." In other words, the U.S./Israeli genocide to eradicate the Palestinian people and create what it calls Greater Israel under its rule, is not the cause of the problems in the region.
Canadians have stood and continue to stand with the Palestinian people in support of their just cause. What Canadians stand for is shown in the hundreds of actions Canadians and Quebeckers have carried out in the past year, in defiance of their criminalization by the state, politicians and media. They will continue to do so until the liberation of Palestine.
(With files from Hill Times, CBC and CTV News.)
This article was published in
Volume 54 Number 43 - October 14, 2024
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