If France, Britain and Canada think that Israel’s actions are “egregious” what does that mean and what does it tell us about the countries where Jews have decided to live for many years?
A statement, which was endorsed by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, slammed Israel’s renewed military offensive and warned that the countries would work to sanction Israel if it does not end the war.
“We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions,” the three leaders said.
“If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response.”
The three leaders referenced possible “sanctions” against Israel and threatened “concrete actions”.
There we have it – some concrete and/or egregious actions are going to be undertaken unless Israel surrenders in its war against Hamas.
Will concrete actions included military actions?
I am a Canadian Jew whose father survived Auschwitz, where his parents and then 8-year-old sister were murdered. He loved Canada but in a way I am glad that he did not live long enough to witness Canada taking concrete actions against Israel. I would wonder sometimes as a child what would happen if Canada and Israel went to war. Who would we support? Would we leave for Israel?
Is it possible that my children and grandchildren would have to answer these questions? Are these three western leaders about to threaten Israel that unless it consents to genocidal states in Gaza and Judea and Samaria these three countries would try to enforce their wishes through military action?
Once these countries have a high percentage of Muslims and anti-Israel Leftists, we must understand that the power will shift to Muslims.
My grandchildren are identifiably Jewish in dress and lifestyle and educational experience and belong to organizations which allow them to visit Israel often. They live in an upper middle class Jewish neighborhood in Toronto. Toronto Jews are now subject to “concrete” actions all right, which actions are Muslim antisemitic demonstrations, graffiti and other damage done to Jewish institutional buildings, damage done to synagogues, schools and restaurants.
My father came to Canada in 1947. After my family’s presence in Canada for eighty years, are these three leaders the vanguard of a new reality where Jewish self-defense in Israel is construed as “egregious” action? Let’s examine what the three leaders might mean when they portray Israel as some kind of enemy taking “egregious” actions against the Islamists like Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran, Qattar etc.
So if France, Britain and Canada think that Israel’s actions are “egregious” what does that mean and what does it tell us about the countries where Jews have decided to live for many years?
One major dictionary defines “egregious” as “extremely bad in a way that is very noticeable”. Another defines it as “flagrant” or “conspicuously bad”. Another says that egregious means extraordinary in some bad way, such as a glaring mistake or a flagrant lie. It comes from Latin ?gregius, meaning standing out from the herd.
So, according to the European and Canadian moralists, Israeli actions are not just bad but “extremely bad” and intended to be “conspicuous” or flagrant. And the word connotes “standing out from the herd” – meaning Israel is not just one of the crowd, but stands out from the herd, hardly a fair allegation in a world of immoral states with an increasing Islamist orientation.
Merriam-Webster notes that egregious comes from a Latin word meaning “distinguished” or “eminent.” It was once a compliment to someone who had a remarkably good quality that placed him or her above others. Today, the meaning of the word is noticeably less complimentary.
In fact, this example of the evolution and transition of the meaning of words, is part of a growing trend to use our words politically and culturally in the service of ideology.
For example, is a violent protest still a “protest” or do we insist on calling it a “riot”?
Do those tolerant of evil terrorists get to term them “militants” as if they are soldiers subject to the laws and ethics of warfare or do we insist on the use of the word “terrorist”?
The statement of the three western leaders stating that Israel’s actions are not just bad but extremely bad or conspicuously bad reflect a deep hatred for the Jewish State. That is the sad truth.
Howard Rotberg – is the author of books such as The Second Catastrophe: A Novel About a Book and its Author; Tolerism: The Ideology Revealed; The Ideological Path to Submission; and Second Generation Radical: The World Through One Man’s Second Generation Lens. All book available through Amazon.
As a Zionist living in the UK I deplore the treacherous way our governments have allowed antisemites and terrorists to infiltrate our country for more than two decades now. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented illegal migrants have come here, and we have no idea who they are, though we know most are members of the religion of rest in peace.
These frightening people are opposed to all Judaeo-Christian values. They promote the killing of Christians and Jews. They groom very young girls to be raped by their gangs. They cow politicians into carrying out their wishes in order to garner votes, while the ordinary people here have no say in these terrible policies. And they hate Israel most of all. The UK msm, like that in America and Europe, have only the same parroted response to anything Israel does – everything bad is Israel’s fault for defending herself.
If only we would defend ourselves as Israel does we would not have this problem.
Third world immigration with no pressure to confirm to western culture is what politicians seeking votes from the scum of the earth do to remain in power. This is the only flaw in democracy. One decent person’s vote is overwhelmed by ten votes from a Muslim pedophile collective and consequently we’re reaping a bitter harvest. The West needs an enema and that’s a careful chosen term.
Prompt to Google
“evidence that there is plenty of food in the present day Gaza sent in over previous months”
The results of that search are revealing
Also revealing is a Guardian article today based around an Australian member of their government called Penny Wong.
There are a legendary number of articles from these central Israel hating states but let’s swing back to what Wong stated :
“Penny Wong has condemned “abhorrent and outrageous” comments made by Netanyahu government members in recent days and said the Israeli government “cannot allow the suffering” in Gaza to continue. ”
The problem with Wong is that she says she condemns the Hamas genocide action on October 7 BUT she offers no direction what to do about it. That is she offers no understanding or analysis of that massive pogrom on the Jews so reminiscent of the Holocaust.
So that means her position on October 7 is devoid of all meaning.
For example Wong has not said a word about the role of Egypt in October 7 and the obvious need to move the civilians into the Sinai. There they could be well fed and better safe.
So Wong does nothing on that front and still attacks Israel as this besieged country is combatting Hamas.
This I think brings us to the heart of the matter and it is that these elites like Wong desire that Hamas is not ruthlessly defeated by the Israeli army. They want Hamas to live to ‘fight another day”. The deeper question though is why?
As for my query to Google about food having gone into Gaza in previous months this came up’
Look for one pdf from IJHPR
This shows the colossal amount Israel sent in over a six months period. It is simply colossal. And it is calculated scientifically.
And conclusion is that it cannot be done in Gaza and has to be administered by these complainers in the Sinai.
Their bad intentions typified by Wong to Israel then very soon becomes obvious.
These useful idiots (UK, France, KanadaStan) continue to distiguish between Hamas and Palestinians.
But with 93% of Pals supporting Hamas, they are the same with nary a sliver of light between them.
The IDF is righteous to pound them back into their caves, and then fill the caves with seawatar. Let Allah sort them out.
Putting it simply… If “the world” believes that what you are doing is “egregious” then you must be on the right track.
Mr. Rotberg seems to have a problem defining these terrorists as such. The issue is easy to understand: if you have the upper hand, you expect everybody else to bow down to you and all that that entails. Since the rest of the world is willing to pay for the gas and oil being pumped out of the Arab countries, they now have the upper hand, since they can, theoretically, close off the tap whenever they want to.
The problem is actually a little more difficult than that. These Arabs were all defeated and only gained some degree of recognition after WW1. However, apart from supporting Hitler to kill all the Jews, they didn’t really take part in the world wars and have not deserved any compensation for being protected by the allies in WW2. In fact, not even the Jews who participated in the world wars were compensated. Instead, the winning side including UK and France were quite dismissive of any claims and did their best to help the Arabs defeat the Jews.
This solution, which has some basic similarities with Hitler’s solution, did not work according to expectations. The Jews were neither annihilated nor defeated in the ensuing conflict, so nowadays, the next easy path is to attempt to deny those pesky Israelis any kind of support in the fight against the Arabs, who keep harping on about THEIR land and THEIR Palestine which was initially intended to become the homeland of those pesky Jews back in San Remo, but was successfully split up to provide an unknown Saudi offspring with a kingdom in 77% of the land.
This freshly baked king then proceeded to annex Judea and Samaria. This was only recognized by the UK and Pakistan, where Pakistan had no say in the matter.
The fact that UK and France have veto rights in the UNSC should have actually helped relieve the situation, but unfortunately, those pesky Jews once again found that their claims were right. On the other hand, every man and his dog claim that “international law” is against any activity taken up by the Israelis, like attempting to close their direct line to the Israeli Supreme Court or actually punishing those Arabs in the Gaza Strip for their terrorist acts.
Let’s face it: everybody knows that they committed unspeakable acts on Oct 7, 2023 but not a one of them is willing to step up to the plate and demand that they be punished. If we now take a careful peek at what’s going on in UK or France or almost any other European country, we find that their situation at home is out of control. If they want to be serfs of the Arabs they defeated last century, that is their free will, but they shouldn’t expect Israel to do the same.