GRITS JUST DEAD INSIDE

Israelis and Palestinians condemn deliberate deceptiveness of Trudeau Liberals

The Trudeau Liberals are still a government, yes, but make no mistake, they’re dying, and they’re dying without dignity.

Yes, they have all the trappings of government: the expense accounts, the limousines and chauffeurs, the legions of officials and producing mountains of unread memorandums for them, all that.

But when observed from less than a distance, the Trudeau regime has only a thin, brittle exoskeleton of power. It’s a hologram of a government. It’s as lifeless as cold ashes.

The Trudeau Liberals have 158 seats, the opposition parties have  179, for a parliamentary minority. In the real world, that is kind of the equivalent to being strapped to a death row gurney, waiting for the governor  to call (or not).

The Trudeau government may not look entirely dead from the outside, but it’s inarguably dead inside, and only a Lazarus-like miracle can revive it now.

Proof of all that was seen in the past week. In the Middle East, a war is raging between civilization and barbarity. That’s what it is, in its essence – Israel and Hamas, respectively. Civilization’s victory seems likely, but is by no means a certain or permanent thing. Oct. 7^th, made that clear: If the conditions are right, if the evil side is sufficiently organized, any  one of us – men, women, children, babies – can die in the most horrific of ways, all captured on a smirking terrorists’ GoPro camera.

When war is being waged by civilization on one side and utter savagery on the other, it shouldn’t be difficult to pick sides. Choosing sides, as Graham Greene once wrote, is how we remain human.

The civilized world has chosen Israel. South Africa, a Russian satellite that has pimped itself out to Hamas, brought a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging that Israel is committing “genocide” against Hamas’ vassal state, Gaza.

International law, of course, is written by angels, sought by rulers who hold absolute power in a cruel way and mostly ignored by the sane. But, in South Africa’s case, it was important to take sides. So, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Ireland, the European Union and others vigorously opposed, or refused to support, South Africa’s Hamas approved litigation.

But what of Canada? What of the Trudeau government?

Two weeks ago, on Friday Jan. 12^th, in a statement that washed up onshore like a dead whale, Trudeau said this: “Our wholehearted support of the ICJ and its process does not mean that we support the premise of the case brought forward by South Africa?”

People poked and prodded the dead whale. It wasn’t a ringing endorsement of Israel – it wasn’t particularly clear – but it read, to most, like Canada didn’t support South Africa’s lawsuit against the victims of Oct. 7^th.