With a twisted ideology, they don’t want peace

The pro-Palestinian folks camped on university campuses must understand that Israel will not disappear today or in the future as a result of their actions.

This tiny nation has withstood three major wars, 1948, 1967 and 1973, against the overwhelming Arab state armies that surrounded the country and sought to remove it from the face of the Earth.

The Arabs failed in all three and paid dearly for their folly. Following the last war, the international community along with Israel and the Palestinian leadership have attempted to negotiate a final settlement for peace, but each time the Palestinian leadership turned down a solution, even though the Camp David Accords in the early 1980s granted the Palestinians 92 per cent of what they wanted.

Instead, the displaced Palestinians have remained housed in ghettos in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan and in most cases were not allowed citizenship or even the ability to work.

Over the years since, a number of Arab states have made peace with Israel and a number more were on the brink of doing so. This was untenable for the Palestinian leadership, thus the unprovoked, brutal attack on Israel on Oct. 7 with the launching of tens of thousands of rockets at cities and villages, and death for any Jew they came across.

The day following the attack, Hamas leadership stated they would continue such attacks in the future “no matter how many Palestinians die.” In other words, these leaders don’t care about their people.

They only are interested in perpetuating their twisted ideology and to ensure a real peace will never take place in the region. Their propaganda organs have been working incessantly through their mouthpieces in Canada, Samidoun and the Palestinian Youth Movement, which has organized most of the protests across the country.

University students who are challenged to critically think and conduct a real debate (not shouting matches) based on facts have been sucked in by the propaganda in their social media feeds.

Let’s be clear, Palestinian leadership does not want peace, as it would mean that the Palestinian people have lived a lie for 76 years.

Robin Allen Victoria