Keeping it Real…

Al-Qaida linked Jihadists have taken over Syria; in Afghanistan, the Taliban have imposed strict Islamic restrictions on women … now forbidden treatment in hospitals or to even have their voices heard in public; while in Canada, the UK and Europe, Jihadists have stepped up their attacks on not just Jews and Jewish community centers and synagogues, but Christians as well.

In Germany last week, an Islamic “refugee” was arrested and charged with planning an ISIS-supporting attack on a Christmas market. (Read the details here: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-police-foil-planned-islamist-terror-attack-on-augsburg-christmas-market/.)

Three weeks ago, four Christians were massacred by Islamists in Nigeria (https://www.persecution.org/2024/11/15/4-dead-after-muslim-extremists-attack-christian-farming-community/ ), just the latest in a slew of Jihadist violence aimed at Christians in Muslim countries.

And in Canada, anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish Canadians by Jihadist Muslims, their anti-Israel friends/supporters on college campuses, in politics and even government have become so frequent (with almost no consequences) that in several communities, Jews are living with fear they had not experienced since the dark days of the Second World War.

Weeks ago, I noted that, thanks to the Trudeau government’s immigration/refugee policies, the number of Muslims in Canada now topped 1.7 million, compared to about 490,000 Jews …and I speculated that the increasngly desperate Trudeau/Liberals would sacrifice their traditonally solid Jewish votes for more Muslim ones.

Hasn’t anyone noticed how the Trudeau Liberal government has offered lip service but done very little in the face of Islamc and even terrorist–supporting violence in Canada and now votes regularly to support one-sided anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations?

Coincidence? I don’t believe so! And nor do many others…

This is scary and should be sickeniug to all decent Canadians: https://www.timesofisrael.com/264-year-old-montreal-jewish-community-fears-antisemitism-becoming-the-new-normal/.

What I believe is happening is that Western democracies … Canada, the UK and some European nations … are now paying the price for years of warm and generous welcoming of millions of Islamic refugees and immigrants from the Middle East (Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians) and even from Africa.

At some point, the compromised, activist media (especially Al Jazeera, the BBC and the CBC) will have to answer for pushing the Western democracies (never other Islamc countries) to take more and more Muslim immigrants/refugees … thereby impacting …even compromising … the ethnic, religious, cultural values of several Western nations.

Political jihadism is now a reality … and Western democracies MUST confront it!

Just take a look at those socieities where the media targeted day after day with heart-jerking propaganda urging Western countries to take in …without ANY limit … Islamic refugee/illegal immigrants without EVER raising questions about why Muslim states were not.

The good news is that most have appreciated that welcome mat and tried/succeeded in settling into their new homes/society and have contributed to our society.

But sadly, too many …far too many … brought their traditional cultural, religious and violence-prone hatreds with them ..and now are increasingly acting them out … openly and with increasibng success.

That should sound the alarm for all of us!

Because what they are promoting are not just anti-Israel or anti-Jewish ideas, beliefs, demand and actions …but anti-Canadian, anti-democratic, anti-Judeo/Christian values as well.

Our Western democratic principles, values and way of life is now clearly under threat.

Hasn’t anyone noticed how, at the United Nations (and all its associated agencies and bodies) the 57 Islamic nations have compromised, by pursuing a Jihadist agenda, the integrity and thus effectiveness of the world body?

Just look at the DOZENS of anti-Israel resolutions and condemnations passed and handed down … even criminal charges against its leader(s) …. while totally ignoring the Muslim dictatorships and murderous regimes and leaders (Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan) who have tortured, killed, even gassed their own populations.

Why not a single ICC arrest warrant against a single LIVING Islamic terrorist leader of Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Hezbollah? Why hasn’t there been outrage that the ICC has never issued an arrest warrant for Bashar Al-Assad, whose regime was responsible for the deaths (torture, murder, bombing gassing) of more than 100,000 Syrians?

Jihadists clearly have the UN in their grip!

And as we approach this Christmas/Chanukah we in Canada and other Western nations must start looking to leaders willing to stand up for those traditional values and principles that attracted so many immigrants and refugees in the first place …

And not allow the Jihadists … or their allies on campuses and in politics/government … to continue to eat away and destroy our society … all under the guise of giving in to “tolerance” and “accomodation”… until they succeed, and then take it ALL away!

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah and a Happy and FREE New Year … for ALL those who still cherish and stand up against the Jihadists and for the Judeo-Christian beliefs and standards that built our great society.

Harv Oberfeld

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked a bit embarrassed, even humiliated … like a surrendering foe … seated next to Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago dinner table Friday night, along with several smiling Republican personalities and surrounded by several other tables filled with Trump’s social, business and political cronies.

This was no social occasion, no dinner with friends or allies, no special honour for Canada’s leader as the next US President’s first invited or celebrated foreign dignitary.

And certainly, not a negotiating session among equals at a mutually-agreed neutral location.

Let’s keep it real: Trudeau, accompanied by his Chief of Staff Katie Telford and Public Safety Minister Dominic Leblanc, was literally on Trump’s home turf, almost submissively, trying to stop the President-elect’s threatened economic attack on Canada as soon as he takes office in January … trying to avoid the potential costs and carnage that could be inflicted on Canada’s economy.

Trudeau was using his best weapon at this point: feeding Trump’s bloated ego, by flying directly to Palm Beach and no doubt reminding him how long Canada/US have been good friends/allies, how American exporters have benefited from the USMCA deal engineered during Trump’s first term … and promising now to do better at keeping illegals from crossing the northern border into the US and interdicting fentanyl and other illicit drugs from heading south as well.

It certainly was a different approach from Mexico’s new President President Claudia Sheinbaum’s initial loud and public reaction Tuesday that Mexico would retaliate with tariffs of its own if Trump imposed his threatened 25% tariffs on all Mexican exports to the US.

Frankly, my own initial reaction to Trump’s threat was closer to hers.

Let all those Washington apples spoil on the ground, I thought: let Idaho’s potatoes rot in the ground, let California’s millions of dollars of Canada-bound produce turn into compost, let’s retaliate with duties on all manufactured goods and food imports from the 36 US states whose prime export market is Canada, and let’s add a 25% tariff on the $57 Billion dollars of US-made automobiles sold each year in Canada, even if it increases even more sales in Canada of cars built in Japan, Korea, Europe, even China.

Of course, that would likely also raise prices for Canadian families … already struggling with high grocery and other imported product costs.

Luckily, I am not Prime Minister!

Clearly, Canada … ie Trudeau … had decided loud vows of retaliation was not the way to go with Trump.

At least, not initially.

Canada has been down this road with Trump before; and, when talks, negotiations and logic failed and Trump did impose tariffs, Canada responded with limited, specific targeted duties … and the US/Canada eventually worked out our differences, for a while.

Now, here we go again … and the goal of both sides should be to address the issues causing problems (illegals, security, drugs, guns, trade/market issues etc.) without adding to consumer costs or loss of jobs on both sides of the border.

That’s what Trudeau’s Friday dinner effort was all about … even if he had to eat a little crow.

Which brings me to Pierre Poilievre.

It is the DUTY of the Opposition to oppose, to criticize and expose weaknesses, omissions and failures of the government, its proposed solutions and actions.

But when you aspire to be Prime Minister … and all the polls say you WILL be, in less than a year … I believe Canadians should be able to expect something more: real proposed solutions to real existing problems.

Sunday Poilievre called for increased border patrols and “technology to crack down on illegal drug trafficking, as well as tightening visa rules and working with provincial law enforcement”.

Pretty puny moves, considering the magnitude of Trump’s bellicose complaints and threats.

According to CTV News, Poilievre also “demanded the federal government present a plan before Parliament to beef up border security”.

(You can read the full story here: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/poilievre-calls-for-asylum-seeker-cap-border-plan-as-u-s-tariff-threat-looms-1.7129740.)

Poilievre has been very heavy on criticism of Trudeau, but very light on proposed solutions.

“No wonder foreign leaders believe they can walk all over him, they see him as a weak, incompetent leader who does not even have the support of his own caucus,” Poilievre said earlier this week.

Great sound bite … but I think Poilievre and the Conservative shadow cabinet should be able to come up with more than that in the face of such major critical threats from the US!

“In Canada, a government official said Canada is preparing for every eventuality and has started thinking about what items to target with tariffs in retaliation,” the Associated Press reported last week.

“Canada, for instance, announced billions of new duties in 2018 against the U.S. in a tit-for-tat response to new taxes on Canadian steel and aluminum,” the AP said.

“Many of the U.S. products were chosen for their political rather than economic impact. For example, Canada imports $3 million worth of yogurt from the U.S. annually and most comes from one plant in Wisconsin, home state of then-House Speaker Paul Ryan. That product was hit with a 10% duty. Another product on the list was whiskey, which comes from Tennessee and Kentucky, the latter of which is the home state of then-Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell.”

That’s what the Trudeau government did: I want to know what would a Poilievre government do?

Would Poilievre have gone to dinner at Mar-a-Lago? Would he do as Mexico’s President did … openly threaten retaliatory tariffs? On all US or specific products? Would he have handled Trump differently? How?

Sound bites entertain … but solutions require substance.

What would Poilievre do differently from Trudeau or the Liberal government in dealing with Trump and his threats?

Hopefully, the “working’ media will start pressing Poilievre on that.

Harv Oberfeld

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