Canada does not believe Hamas would respect a ceasefire in its conflict with Israel, Defence Minister Bill Blair said Tuesday as he provided the most clarity to date on why the Liberal government has not called for one.
“I have no expectation that a terrorist organization would respect international law or any call for a ceasefire,” Blair told reporters in Ottawa before headed into the Liberal cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Calls for a ceasefire in the latest Israel-Hamas war — including a temporary one, referred to by some as a “pause,” to allow in more aid — have grown in recent days as humanitarian organizations warn of a major crisis in the Gaza Strip.
More than a million people have been displaced in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory, where they face shortages of food, water and fuel after Israel cut off access to supplies and launched airstrikes in response to deadly attacks by Hamas militants.
People seem to agree with this, yet argue that any way that Israel does it is genocide, without providing a single alternative.
You can’t eliminate ideology by killing people. In fact it only strengthens it.
little late to be jumping on this particular bandwagon. But I guess better late than never.
How can you call for a ceasefire after 1400 civilians died for no reason?
Instead of that maybe call for hostages release or Hamas surrender – make Hamas feel as much international pressure as possible
Hamas is a threat to Palestine. Whenever Hamas acts, Palestinians suffer.
It’s not a threat to ‘the world’. It’s a threat to Israel. This exaggerated BS is what addressing these issue turns it into an ‘us vs them’.
I don’t recall Hamas doing any harm to anyone outside of their region but hey I might be wrong
Oh, the NDP will have something to say about this statement.
Yeah very true. Yet if you don’t stop it from the source, a new group will replace it.
How uncharacteristically non-wishy washy for a Lib. What happened to the “who are you to judge” and all the other toxic woke nonsense they spew? I’m sure he’ll be made to apologize.
This a hot take?
The rest of us already knew this…. Welcome to the club
Take in Palestinian civilians Canada. How about that to solve the issues caused by the Anglosphere in 1948.
America’s crazy just.
They took the Geneva convention and made it a checklist.
They are right.
Hamas needs to go, for good.
This is true.
lol expect more pro-“Palestine” protests
Canada, take a fuckin look at yourself, you are not under threat from some angry refugees in Palestine.
Climate change is a threat to the world. Nuclear war of a threat to the world. Hamas is a threat to itself and the people around it.
Edit- the downvotes of stupid people only make me stronger, kinda like pretending a terror organisation is more dangerous than it is
Not to sound jaded and cynical, but there’s always outcry like this in every generation.
HAMAS
Isis
Muslim brotherhood
Al qaeda
Taliban
IRA
Hezbollah
Farc
Vietcong’s
Karen rouges
Boko Haram..
These fucking organisation needs to fuck off and we need to chilli the fuck out.
Perfect time to cut 1.1 billion in military spending you tard.
Does he not understand what a proxy war is?
Can we stop just assuming it is only Hamas that is the threat. I know we dont want to accept it, but Iran/Russia/NK are the ones behind all of this.
Stomping out hamas is a great start, but lets not lie ourselves that it removes the ongoing threat.
How can it be a threat to the world, they have like a few thousand people and never did attacks outside the region?
Remember when we said this about the taliban and isis?
We let them run a country now….
This guy gets it.
Agree, also eliminate the IDF terrorists.
So the country that has gutted its military going to actually do anything about i? Pretty rich coming from Canada.
Proud of my country 🇨🇦🤝🇮🇱
How many innocents will die to get that results though?
And what pray tell would Canada do ? Send flyers of Trudeau scowling and waging a finger ?
Did they not remove one billion from the Army’s budget ? ?
It appears Canada is not going to say sorry on this one.
> Any organization like this has to be destroyed
How?
I’m tired of everyone saying “yeah hamas is bad, we should destroy it”. But no one knows how to do it without dropping bombs on anywhere they are.
Don’t think we are fighting for this, I do not support genocide. Send the politicians and everyone who supports it to fight.
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News that shouldn’t be shocking to anyone
***From The Canadian Press:***
Canada does not believe Hamas would respect a ceasefire in its conflict with Israel, Defence Minister Bill Blair said Tuesday as he provided the most clarity to date on why the Liberal government has not called for one.
“I have no expectation that a terrorist organization would respect international law or any call for a ceasefire,” Blair told reporters in Ottawa before headed into the Liberal cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Calls for a ceasefire in the latest Israel-Hamas war — including a temporary one, referred to by some as a “pause,” to allow in more aid — have grown in recent days as humanitarian organizations warn of a major crisis in the Gaza Strip.
More than a million people have been displaced in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory, where they face shortages of food, water and fuel after Israel cut off access to supplies and launched airstrikes in response to deadly attacks by Hamas militants.
***Read more:*** [https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-s-defence-minister-says-hamas-a-threat-to-world-must-be-eliminated-1.6614595](https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-s-defence-minister-says-hamas-a-threat-to-world-must-be-eliminated-1.6614595)
People seem to agree with this, yet argue that any way that Israel does it is genocide, without providing a single alternative.
You can’t eliminate ideology by killing people. In fact it only strengthens it.
little late to be jumping on this particular bandwagon. But I guess better late than never.
How can you call for a ceasefire after 1400 civilians died for no reason?
Instead of that maybe call for hostages release or Hamas surrender – make Hamas feel as much international pressure as possible
Hamas is a threat to Palestine. Whenever Hamas acts, Palestinians suffer.
It’s not a threat to ‘the world’. It’s a threat to Israel. This exaggerated BS is what addressing these issue turns it into an ‘us vs them’.
I don’t recall Hamas doing any harm to anyone outside of their region but hey I might be wrong
Oh, the NDP will have something to say about this statement.
Yeah very true. Yet if you don’t stop it from the source, a new group will replace it.
How uncharacteristically non-wishy washy for a Lib. What happened to the “who are you to judge” and all the other toxic woke nonsense they spew? I’m sure he’ll be made to apologize.
This a hot take?
The rest of us already knew this…. Welcome to the club
Take in Palestinian civilians Canada. How about that to solve the issues caused by the Anglosphere in 1948.
America’s crazy just.
They took the Geneva convention and made it a checklist.
They are right.
Hamas needs to go, for good.
This is true.
lol expect more pro-“Palestine” protests
Canada, take a fuckin look at yourself, you are not under threat from some angry refugees in Palestine.
Climate change is a threat to the world. Nuclear war of a threat to the world. Hamas is a threat to itself and the people around it.
Edit- the downvotes of stupid people only make me stronger, kinda like pretending a terror organisation is more dangerous than it is
Not to sound jaded and cynical, but there’s always outcry like this in every generation.
HAMAS
Isis
Muslim brotherhood
Al qaeda
Taliban
IRA
Hezbollah
Farc
Vietcong’s
Karen rouges
Boko Haram..
These fucking organisation needs to fuck off and we need to chilli the fuck out.
Perfect time to cut 1.1 billion in military spending you tard.
Does he not understand what a proxy war is?
Can we stop just assuming it is only Hamas that is the threat. I know we dont want to accept it, but Iran/Russia/NK are the ones behind all of this.
Stomping out hamas is a great start, but lets not lie ourselves that it removes the ongoing threat.
How can it be a threat to the world, they have like a few thousand people and never did attacks outside the region?
Remember when we said this about the taliban and isis?
We let them run a country now….
This guy gets it.
Agree, also eliminate the IDF terrorists.
So the country that has gutted its military going to actually do anything about i? Pretty rich coming from Canada.
Proud of my country 🇨🇦🤝🇮🇱
How many innocents will die to get that results though?
And what pray tell would Canada do ? Send flyers of Trudeau scowling and waging a finger ?
Did they not remove one billion from the Army’s budget ? ?
It appears Canada is not going to say sorry on this one.
> Any organization like this has to be destroyed
How?
I’m tired of everyone saying “yeah hamas is bad, we should destroy it”. But no one knows how to do it without dropping bombs on anywhere they are.
Don’t think we are fighting for this, I do not support genocide. Send the politicians and everyone who supports it to fight.