Dove of Peace   

photo thanks to Muhammad Shamroon Malik

Iran Attacked by Israel and USA

After many years of cajoling, berating, admonishing, and finally ingratiating himself to the ever needy Donald Trump, Netanyahu has succeeded in convincing the Commander-in-Chief to launch the USA's military arsenal against Israel's persistent adversary, Iran.  The dove of peace continues to fly seeking  a secure home.

Tired of "negotiations" - i.e. demands and threats for not following orders, i.e. being uncooperative, Trump made up his mind to activate the armada.  Was it to distract from the Epstein swamp?  To take attention away from the ICE horror?  To distance himself from the "Board of Peace" debacle and the genocidal horror of Gaza/Palestine?

So the two nuclear power allies, always ready to expand their domains, launched their weapons on the equally objectionable Iranian theocracy led by Supreme leader Khameini, now assassinated.   The Security Council of the United Nations wasn't consulted; other allies were not informed; and Article 2 of the UN Charter was simply violated by this illegal war.

Western allies didn't like the launch, but as usual put their blinkers on and implied that Iran was the villain. Cited as the villain's co-conspirators were Hezbolah, Yemen's Houtis, and, of course, Hamas, the convenient label Israel uses to condemn all Palestinians as "terrorists".   

Canada's Response

Our Prime Minister continued that blinker tradition when he quickly issued his formal statement affirming the USA / Israel assault on Iran and condemning the victim of aggression.  His statement can be found here:     https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/02/28/statement-prime-minister-carney-and-minister-anand-situation-middle-east

Mr. Carney states:   "Canada’s position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world’s worst human rights records, and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons."

Without in any sense affirming the governance of the brutal Iranian theocracy, Western nations including Canada can be counted on to keep their blinkers on when it comes to Israel's terror and human rights violations.  The Palestinian victims are readily condemned or simply neglected. 

Western allies hardly notice or refer to Israel's 100 year history of massacres conducted to wrest Palestinian ancestral lands from their owners; the 75,000+ identified death and countless more under the rubble; the 100,000 + injured and maimed Palestinians; the weaponization of food and medical services; the intentional murder of journalists to stifle truth; anti-Palestinian racism, apartheid, and finally, genocide.  And aggressive aspirations to creat the Greater Israel across boundaries of neighbouring states.  All these crimes blow through human rights and international law, but are seldom acknowledged by blinkered governments, including Canada.

Both Israel and the United States, like Russia's war on Ukraine, have aggressively undermined the International Laws, Treaties, and Conventions which aimed to bring law & order, justice and peace to a war weary world.  But we don't mention their disdain for these solemn agreements.

When I read Prime Minister Carney's statement, I immediately launched a response.   It was not complimentary.  I now know that Mr. Carney also must have reacted to his own statement, because he has diluted some of the substance in his official statement.  But now we don't know what our Prime Minister really believes - an inherited liberal symptom of speaking out of both sides of the mouth.

Responding to the Prime Minister

Here was my immediate response to his official statement of February 28th, copied to  leaders of other political parties and several key MPs:

Dear Prime Minister Carney

Again the Trump regime has taken the United States of America into warfare on the urging of the state of Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran.  We are told, and your statement on the matter mentions, that this is a "pre-emptive" attack on Iran and that "Israel has a right to defend itself" and therefore the government of Canada will not condemn and denounce this unprovoked attack on Iran. 

In effect, Canada is yet again granting Israel and the USA impunity to do whatever they wish to impose their way on Iran (and, of course, Venezuela, Cuba, and potentially Denmark/Greenland, and, I believe, Canada, if we were to cut off energy (oil and electricity supplies to the USA.)

The short-sighted and embarrassing stance of the government of Canada contributes nothing to the maintenance of international law and order symbolised by the United Nations and its various agencies advocating for justice and peace in global affairs.  Instead, Canada contributes and hastens the breakdown of international order by its unwillingness to speak against the renewed system of "might makes right" which the Great Powers and, in this particular case, the United States and its west Asian vassal state Israel, are imposing on the world.

It seems that the government is not able or willing to take seriously your eloquent Davos speech when it comes to international affairs.  Instead we bow to the expansionist and death-dealing policies of Israel buttressed by USA arms and political cover.  The Charter of the United Nations does not provide for pre-emptive strikes to impose these countries' will and agenda on Iran or any other sovereign state.  Their combined efforts have caused death and destruction in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and supremely in Palestine/Gaza where 75,000 identified dead, thousands under the rubble, hundreds of thousands of injured and maimed, and where starvation and Israel's other anti-humanitarian strategies have killed thousands more.

The fact is that Israel with USA complicity is committing genocide against the Palestinian people and state - seeking to erase Palestine is the goal so that Israel can claim all Palestine and much more as their racist supremecist homeland state. Recent comments by Israeli officials like opposition leader Yair Lapid and by USA ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee do not hide their support of a "Greater Israel" - far beyond current boundaries and not just the current implementation schemes of annexation of the illegally occupied territories - West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Canada's West Asian / Palestine policy - now including the USA & Israel attack on Iran - is short sighted and unjust, and not in harmony with international frameworks, treaties,declarations, and the Charter of the UN.

If we continue on this trajectory then we too will only just be contributing more to the disorder of Earth.  I call on the government to re-think its apparent policy of appeasement to USA and Israeli expansionist policies and actions, and to work with the middle powers of the world toward more just and liberating ways that foster self-determination, human values, and means of enforcing the framework of laws and covenants that contribute to just peace.

Canada can and must do better to foster and maintain peaceful relations between the nations and their peoples. In the face of the evil of warfare, we are being called to this higher purpose..

Sincerely,

A H Harry Oussoren