Israel is the homeland for Jews.
---- well not really.
My name is Decarie, a name that appeared in Quebec about 1650. Well, no, it actually came from France long before that.
Uh, Okay. It's originally from Spain.
So do I have a right to move into Spain? Maybe to invade it? Of course not.
But we daily hear that Israel is the homeland for Jews. The reality is that most Jews now living in Israel have been living in other countries for a thousand years and more. So let's stop babbling about Jews having the right to occupy Israel. (And, incidentally, the small number of Jews who have been in Israel all their lives are not crazy about all those Jews who have poured in since the 1950s and later.)
That's because the European Jews who moved in on them have been arrogant and have made themselves feared and hated by the Muslims who have lived in Israel for more than a thousand years.
European Jews had no special right to move in after world war 2. It was simply a special device for the Christians of Europe and North American to get rid of them.
And since then, the European Israelis are hated for their denial of any rights to Palestinian Muslims, for military violence, for theft of Palestinian land, for the murder of Palestinians, and for helping the U.S. with it's killing in neighbouring states.
All of this is exactly what Judaism was not about. The sad reality is that Israel's Judaism is exactly what Judaism was never about.
In that, it reminds me of Christians who abandoned their past values way over a thousand years ago. Thus the murderous British Empire and now the American empire. And Israeli Jews and Christians remind me both of their indifference to what they started out to be. Both are remarkably similar to Naziism.
This happened when the whole world refused to accept Jews. So, for all practical purposes, the Jews of Israel are not Jews at all. (Which makes them similar to Christians who have never really been Christian.)
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Remember how so many of our political leaders just knew climate change would never happen? In Alberta, the homeland of "climate change will never happen", it's happening, and with record temperatures.
And it's worse, much worse on the American west coast with climate change forcing people eastward. These are unheard of conditions, far past anything in history. And people have to go a long, long way eastward. The land is drying. Streams, lakes, water tables are disappearing in the worst conditions ever known.
Mexico is getting the experience. Brazil is a horror show, made even worse by it's brutal and brainless destruction of forests. Much of Africa is getting the same - and worse. China is seriously considering a reduction of population.
Indeed, our whole world needs a reduction of population. Our growth of population has us close to the destruction of wild life - which we need as part of our survival.
I'm not looking forward to this summer. And there are worse ones, much worse, to come.
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Trudeau has announced he is horrified by murders of aboriginal children by Catholic clergy and Catholic employees in schools designed to destroy their existence as our native people.
There are a great many of these schools across Canada...
......but Trudeau says he will not carry out any government investigation of them and the certainty of many more such murders that have been carried out across Canada. He's very religious, I guess.
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As I write this, western Canada is suffering terrible heat - the greatest heat ever in Canada - especially for a town in BC that suffered 46.1 C, 115 F) . But not to worry. I'm sure that both our Liberals and Conservatives will protect our oil industry.
We told by our oil industry that everything was under control. In fact, our oil industry has swallowed huge columns of chemicals from the skies to be spilled down to kill us.
Why would it do that? It would do that because there's money in it for the oil industry. The industry kills people all over the world to keep all that poison coming down on us.
Scientists like David Suzuki warned us. But we preferred the promises of oil barons.
The question now is whether we can afford this poisoning which is happening all over the world. Our world has never before seen such poisoning at any point in history.
Will the oil industry change it's ways in time to save humanity? Almost certainly not. Our oil barons have been poisoning our earth for a good 120 years. Will the politicians step in to save us?
Get real. The Liberals, Conservatives, GOP, Democrats take a stand? Not likely. They never have. They're owned by the oil industry. The NDP almost certainly would take a stand. But Canadian voters don't seem to be a bright lot. If they were, they wouldn't vote for Liberals or Conservatives in the first place. REALLY, THE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES ARE OWNED BY THE OIL BILLIONAIRES.
Make no mistake. It was the Liberals and Conservatives that allowed this climate crisis to develop. AND IT'S GOING TO GET MUCH, MUCH WORSE.
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