Is every Palestinian in Gaza really a terrorist?  Are there Hamas bomb-making plants, or arms stashes, in underground tunnels beneath families’ homes in now-toppled buildings?   Where is the evidence that in more than 30 Gaza hospitals, before the IDF destroyed them, there were secret tunnels to hide armed Hamas militants?  Are most of the Gazans’ wheelchairs for the elderly booby-trapped? Like in a James Bond film, do their crutches and canes also fire bullets?

Maybe some Palestinians voted for Hamas; others voted for Fatah ;  maybe some Gazans didn’t vote at all. 

Just like in Canadian elections.  In Gaza, Hamas won. 

Maybe you voted for the Liberals in the last election because you worried what Poilievre and the Tories would do to the country.   It’s embarrassing to admit that you who normally votes NDP –voted Liberal– because right now PM Carney’s doing what you were afraid of.  But after our general election, you would have had a hard time saying the whole country supported the Liberals.  In the 2025 election, the Liberals won 43.76% of the popular vote, and 169 seats in Parliament—a minority government; the Tories got 41.3% of the popular vote—144 seats.  The Bloc Québécois got 6.3% of the votes cast  translating to 22 seats.  The NDP and the Greens shared the scraps– 8 seats.  But no one would seriously say the whole country supported the Liberals. 

I wonder how many of Gaza’s 4,000 child and baby amputees worked for Hamas?

Yet that is what we hear all the time from Israel and its allies such as the US, Britain and France.  Everyone in Gaza – every wife, every mother of six, every school teacher, doctor, surgeon, grandmother and street vendor – is Hamas.  Or at least that each supports Hamas wildly, enthusiastically.  So the civilians are all “terrorists”.  And their terror cells are everywhere – though there is zero evidence of cells under the hospitals, or in the schools or mosques.   So it’s okay for Israel to bomb Palestinians’ homes; collapse their apartment buildings with thousands of mainly women and children still inside; shut off their electricity, and sewage pumps; kill access to fresh water; bomb hospitals; flatten their schools and turn every one of Gaza’s dozen universities into rubble.  I wonder how many of Gaza’s 4,000 child, and baby amputees worked for Hamas? How many of the seniors who lie amidst the rubble, or sleep on the bare ground under tents made of plastic garbage bags served as Hamas operatives over the last two years? 

The outrageous lie that all Palestinians are terrorists is perpetuated by the IDF, the Israeli government and the pro-Israel lobby.  According to Israel’s foreign ministry, last month’s vote in the UN to recognise the Palestinian state was  “nothing but a reward for jihadist Hamas”.

Israel’s minister of finance, right wing xenophobe Belzalel Smotrich 

“called for the Palestinian town of Hawara in the West Bank to be “erased” after radical Jewish settlers rampaged through the town in response to a shooting attack that killed two Israelis. Smotrich later apologized after an international uproar.”

At the same time the Israeli government refuses to recognise that Palestinians exist.  Of course those who do exist, are terrorists! Smotrich proudly said, 

“There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history. There is no Palestinian language.” 

In response, one person on X (once known as Twitter) recently wrote: 

“It’s Israel that makes the world unsafe–

You don’t have to bomb homes.

You don’t have to try on displaced women’s underwear.

You don’t have to blow up hospitals on top of people.

You don’t have to shoot actual children as target practice.

You don’t have to hang dolls from the ceiling.

You don’t have to block the entry of baby milk.

You don’t have to encourage settlers to commit acts of terrorism.

I could go on.”

Somehow Israel and its loyal goons never got the memo. 

Photo at the top:

Casino Royale: This 1954 made for television film featured the first ever James Bond gadget. It was a pretty good one, too. And on to the first ever Bond gadget. Le Chiffre henchman Zoltan reveals a gun that passed for a cane. Genius. Barry Norman was the first Bond. Linda Christian was the first ever screen Bond girl, and screen legend Peter Lorre played Le Chiffre.