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As this whole debacle continues I am appalled at the level of anti-semitism marching down Canadian streets, as well as a rise in actual Holocaust denialism. The problem in Israel and Palestine could be blamed on the British (Balfour, Sykes Picot) or go back thousands of years. Either way it’s being continued by ignorance. Islamists won’t stop until the Jews are gone and then it will be the rest of us. That has to be addressed.

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Nov 19, 2023Liked by Trish Wood

Trish - I've been dying to let you know, since your first remarks regarding Israel and Gaza, that I could NOT agree with you more and that your nuance and critical thought matches mine. I, too, have been despairing seeing people with whom I was allied during the Scamdemic begin peeling off into dramatic stances with this situation. It's really kind of terrifying. It seems to me that 'they' are going to keep hammering us with one psychological slam after another until we are all splintered. I see people online who call themselves 'Fringe Minority' who have roasted me for my take on Israel/Gaza. Where are we actually headed as an entire culture? Our civilization.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/katewand/p/the-nature-of-violence?r=8ztdu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&comments=true

I think Kate is correct, the Jews are being scapegoated once again. It's horrible that anyone is being blown to bits. However, the jihadists want to wipe out the Jews. Then it will be the Christians and the Hindus etc. If they truly wanted peace they would not be raising their children to hate.

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Trish... I have been faithfully listening to you every Friday night for about 3 years now. I look to you for your opinion as I know how well you research your subjects. My heart also breaks for the people of Gaza who are innocent and don’t deserve to be in this situation but I also feel for the Israeli people after such a savage assault. Because of you I’m acutely aware now of some of the propaganda tactics that are used on both sides. Thank you for this and all you do!! Keep up the fantastic work, you really are doing an amazing job and I’m grateful that I have the privilege of knowing about you!! Much love and peace. God Bless❤️

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Dr. Abuelaish appeared on Piers Morgan last night. He was flown to New York to tell his story. I will post a link to it in another stack coming soon.

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Trish,

I grew to love your work and your perspective throughout covid, gender ideology, Trudeau/gov't tyranny, globalist agendas etc etc. We've been in sync. Haven't agreed with you 100% but probably 99%. On Israel, we seem to have completely diverged and I have a hard time reading your work and listening to your podcasts as a result.

I wrote this prior to reading Philip Clement's Nov. 2 post(s) and he touched on many things I don't but articulated them perfectly. I also haven't read anything you wrote or listened to your podcasts since the Abu Sarah podcast.

I think my biggest issue, is your oversimplification of the situation. Civilians good. Army bad. Therefore, Palestinians good and Israelis bad. (Not to mention that rockets continue to rain down on Israeli citizens as they have since Oct. 7 but that acknowledgement appears to be missing from your analysis - this military effort is a response to Oct 7 and aims to protect its civilian population).

Let's first state this - something we both agree on - Innocent civilian life is precious and should be spared. Period. Whether Israeli or Palestinian. That should be the #1 long-term goal. Full stop. I am for a two-state solution. One where Israelis and Palestinians can prosper alongside each other.

However, this is where we diverge, the short-term goal has to be the eradication of Hamas or this cycle will never end. Let's not forget how this conflict began on October 7. With the SADISTIC massacre of innocent Israeli civilians. Rape, beheadings, torture of men and women, young and old and children. Lots and lots of children. Some burned alive. The images live streamed by these sadistic animals for the world to see (even though a not insignificant portion STILL chose to believe it didn't happen and was Jewish propaganda). Unbelievable. Not to mention the 240 innocent souls kidnapped and still in captivity.

Media accounts of watching unedited footage from that day are beginning to be published. They are worthy reads. Here are two:

KINSELLA: Seeing the horror of Hamas' slaughter leaves one in tears https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-seeing-the-horror-of-hamas-slaughter-leaves-one-in-tears

Sabrina Maddeaux: I watched Hamas hack innocents to death. The worst part was their glee https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-i-watched-hamas-hack-innocents-to-death-the-worst-part-was-their-glee

Hamas is a terrorist, extremist organization (despite what the CBC says) that expressly states in its charter that it will not stop until non-Muslim Israelis are annihilated and Palestinians are freed "from the river to the sea". Hamas is the democratically elected representation of Gaza (since 2006). Hamas takes all of the "humanitarian aid" and siphons it to its leaders hiding in Qatar and to build tunnels under Gaza including under critical infrastructure and to accumulate rockets and weapons to be stored in mosques and schools and later used to attack Israeli citizens. Money that could be used to improve the lives of the citizens it "governs", to invest in a more prosperous future, it instead uses to advance its goal of annihilating the Jews.

Therefore: It is imperative that Israel dismantles Hamas once and for all. As peace and security is impossible if it continues to exist. (Political change in Israel is likely needed to accomplish this as well, I am no fan of Netanyahu).

There has been no election since 2006 so it is hard to know how much of the population would support a regime change. We know that dissent from Hamas is stifled through force (sometimes death) and imprisonment. But we also know there were thousands of civilians partying in the streets as dead Israelis were paraded around on the back of pick up trucks. We know that once word spread of a breech in the security fence, hundreds of Gazan civilians joined in on the rampage on October 7. It is too simplistic for you to assume all Gazans are innocent just as it would be too simplistic for me to assume all are complicit. Nuance has been our strength as critically thinking individuals the last 4 years (for me, covid woke me up, perhaps much longer for you).

Again, I am against the deaths of innocent civilians. Both Israeli and Palestinian. But in war, unfortunately, civilian casualties are inevitable. I don't agree with Ben Shapiro on many things but on this I agreed: While there were German civilian casualties in World War 2, it did not make the British inherently wrong: https://x.com/SubToOptimus/status/1721573399959318619?s=20

The key is to minimize civilian casualties, of course. For three weeks the Israeli's held off and planned its ground offensive. It warned Gazan's to flee Gaza City and head for the south. Some heeded that warning. Others tried to flee and were faced with physical roadblocks erected by Hamas and others were killed by Hamas for trying to flee, as civilians are valuable to them to be used as human shields, both for protection and propaganda: https://x.com/rrfunner/status/1720526390393762097?s=20

And others stayed, either out of defiance or fear of the consequences of trying to flee.

The Israelis carefully planned the ground incursion. It chose what it believed to be the best strategy to achieve its military objective while minimizing military casualties AND civilian casualties. It chose to impose a siege on Gaza City. It encircled the city and its tunnel system. Cut off, power, fuel and water with the goal of either killing the terrorists in the tunnels due to deprivation or forcing them to the surface where they could be captured or, more likely killed.

SEYMOUR HERSH: THE LABYRINTH WAR: Israel targets the Hamas tunnel system under Gaza City

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-labyrinth-war?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1377040&post_id=138465481&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=lgzbf&utm_medium=email

I'm biased, as a Jew and as someone who STRONGLY believes not only in the importance of but the necessity of a Jewish state. The rampant anti-Semitism I have witnessed the last month, not only in the middle east but across Europe and here at home has reinforced that notion in spades.

The protests which call for 'freeing Palestine from the river to the sea' (but, tellingly, not from Hamas), the calls for Intifada, the targeting of Jewish-owned/run restaurants, the physical and verbal assault on Jews putting up posters of kidnapped children, the presence of Hamas flags, Taliban flags and Nazi imagery - tells me all I need to know. For many, this is not about the Palestinians, it is about hatred of Jews, as this man profanely but eloquently points out: https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1720462154485080369?t=sEb9xXlfTotf7uwFI5A3Vw&s=08

Despite that, I STILL want the Israeli army to exercise as much caution as possible and I'm not totally blind. I don't believe the Israeli army has been perfect. I've seen the imagery of refugee camps being bombed and the resulting civilian casualties. I do not support that whether it was intentional or a mistake. I do not support that. I do not believe that the sadism and savagery of October 7th gives Israel the right to ignore the safety of Gazan civilians, whether they're being used as human shields or not.

But the larger picture remains. Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. In the most savage way possible. Israel's appropriate response is the complete destruction of Hamas. NEVER AGAIN! Civilians will be a casualty of war. I don't want it to be intentional and I would like them minimized as much as possible. But your binary/unnuanced view that Powerful Israel bad/Meek plucky underdog Palestinians good is misguided.

There is obviously an even larger picture. The genesis of the conflict and the potential long-term solutions, if there are any (I truly hope there are). https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1715677105957077068?s=20

In the meantime, it would be great if you had someone on your show that has an opposing view. It doesn't have to be someone as rigid in his beliefs as Ben Shapiro but, perhaps, Gad Saad or even fellow Canadian media member Alex Pierson. I think your completely one-sided unnuanced view may be turning off some listeners and I think you may learn something. As I did when I listened to your podcast with Aziz Abu Sarah.

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I read somewhere that they are considering showing the video to the public as well. Canadians and everyone around the world needs to see what started this and the action of Hamas and many Palestinians. I hope they do and I hope all those who continue to suggest it’s lies watch it. Let it sit with you and them come back and show us how oppressed the Palestinian people are. https://www.frontpagemag.com/melanie-phillips-video-what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-israels-war-on-hamas/

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Nice to hear from the good doctor again. I read his book and totally agree: no hate! His story illustrates what is going on in Gaza: ethnic cleansing more brutal than in Canada during colonization. Canadian politicians have not learned their lesson and support the occupier making sure that there will be no peace.

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Ok, point taken. It's an enormous personal tragedy for Dr. Abuelaish, A question, what does he propose that peace-loving Palestinians do about Hamas, or alternatively, what should a peace-seeking Israel do about Hamas? Forgive my limited knowledge of the history and politics of the area, but Hamas leaders are vociferously and unashamedly pledging to repeat Oct 7 and to sacrifice as many Palestinians as it takes, until Israel is gone and jews are expelled from there.

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Trish. Just listened to your latest podcast with that amazing Scott Horton. Phew! Sure learned a lot. Here are some hopefully not too random comments on your 2 latest podcasts - & the madness of the times. Off the top, I'm definitely in your court. I've picked a "side." I'm on the side of truth - & peace - & not sanctioning the ill-treatment or murder of innocents of any country, religion, culture, or stripe. As it happens, my father took part in the bombing of Dresden in WWII. He bombed the hell out of many parts of Germany, in fact. He never used to talk about the war, & I think took part enthusiastically. (I've read his flight log. Ugh.) He did apparently tell one of my brothers that he regretted killing innocent civilians. And I reckon he killed an awful lot of them. In fact, I have a good friend from a part of Germany that my father bombed. We are not enemies; we're good friends. We don't feel any need to defend the wrong-doing of our parents' generation, though we can deeply regret it - & indeed can celebrate how much change in attitude can take place in a generation. "Two wrongs don't make a right" is a helpful saying. The bombings of Dresden &/or Hiroshima (& many other places) are not in fact morally defensible in the light of history, in my opinion. Just as the ones now are not, & never will be. And ... I wonder if Canadians who think it's alright to slaughter Palestinians would be okay with someone who feels s/he can justify murdering Canadian women & children because of the awful things OUR horrible politicians/prime minister do (& whom most of us in no way support or have voted for). Pause. I know I'm being a little incoherent here. These are incoherent times!? I think we've all gone a little mad - some clearly more than others. So. I much enjoyed the conversation with those 2 women (Jenin Younes and Ann Bauer) from last week. Such an intelligent, thoughtful discussion. I'm so grateful to you for hosting all the fabulous, smart, articulate people you have on the podcast. As for letting twitter/x make you crazy, maybe for your own sanity you might consider taking occasional pauses from it. Maybe you feel you can't. But I think too many people these days are using social media to vent their messy emotional states (often under cover of anonymity) in public, at others' expense. There are probably a lot of conversations we need to just bloody well starve of oxygen. We all need to preserve our energy - & our sanity - & since this seems to become ever more challenging as the times roll on, I suspect we all have to consider new strategies. Please look after YOU, Trish. We need you!!

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Full support for Trish here. It's certainly a confusing time. I just think of of my kid and what sort of legacy we're leaving behind for generations to come. As a parent I just feel for these kids that are being completely flatlined over there.

God help us.

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What about Israeli kids who have to sleep with rockets daily?

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I just received a WhatsApp video from a friend in Israel. It's a little snippet from the evening news that shows the steady stream of rockets arriving from Gaza and directed—at this moment—at more than twenty cities in Israel. Unlike Israel's bombardment of Gaza which seeks to destroy Hamas' military capability to terrorize and kill Israelis, the Hamas rockets are aimed indiscriminately at civilian centers in Israel. The civilians dying in Gaza are suffering their fate because Hamas has chosen to embed its military capabilities in the heart of its civilian population, in schools, hospitals, markets and mosques. Their missile launching facilities cannot be destroyed without civilian bystanders being destroyed along with them.

Once you understand this, you realize that Hamas has forced Israel into a kill-or-be-killed situation. Hamas has refused to build a single bomb shelter for their civilians, while they hide in their underground tunnels and claim that dead Gazans in the streets above are clear evidence of Israeli war crimes.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of demonstrators in London, Paris, and New York shout encouragement to Hamas while calling for the destruction of Israel and the death of the Jews. They appear to be untroubled by moral complexities or by imprecision of language. They know where they stand, and there in no ambivalence in their calls for genocide.

We may love peace with all our hearts, but we are in a war where the survival of the Jewish people is being called into question for the first time since the Holocaust. The same is NOT the case for Islam and the Muslim world. Under the circumstances, it's time to circle the wagons and to forego the luxury of always seeing both sides of every issue. And I stand with Israel.

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Hi Trish.

I was pleased to listen to your show with Scott Horton. I have heard him speak often in the last 5 years, mainly on the Tom Woods Show. Listening to Scott is like receiving information through a fire hose. You were very patient with his machine gun delivery. His information and knowledge is so impressive that podcast hosts usually allows him to run on.

I had always hoped the you would host a serious Libertarian guest to understand our perspective on matters concerning government overreach. The US military industrial complex is likely the most visible example of Crony-Capitalism in the world today with the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex coming a close second. In Canada, the Climate Change Governments Complex reigns supreme, but the collusion between Big Pharma and the public Health and Medical monopolizies are the dominants complexes of Cronyism.

Also known as “public-private partnerships” 25 years ago, Crony-Capitalism is the mature form on its 1930s guise of Italian Fascism under Mussolini which was praised to the rooftops by the “intelligentia” of that era. Those PPPs on the late 1990s opened the door of public acceptance for what has become the true nature of Canada’s purvasive economic cronyism.

Some day, I hope that you invite a scholar to your show who can lay out for your audience a depiction of modern Economics in its various forms of Cronyism. It's a topic that every Canadian and American should understand. Tom Woods may be a possible choice for this topic. The genius, David Gordon may be an even better option https://mises.org/profile/david-gordon

Take care,

Gene

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Humanity is falling on its face. Nothing about destroying Palestine is okay. Nothing about the support of U.S., U.K. France of weapon supply to Israel and money is okay.

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Happy Sunday Trish!

Just finished listening to your talk with Scott Horton... admittedly i'm not up on all the things he discussed. I feel for all those losing their families, their lives on both sides. From that perspective absolutely there should be an immediate cease-fire. However, that alone does not take into consideration that Hamas wants to wipe the Jews off the planet. How does any group deal with that? I think that fact has to be kept in mind at all times... it's not just two peoples having a "dispute".

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Nov 5, 2023Liked by Trish Wood

I am really sorry Trish that some of your followers have been not so nice to you about the position you have on this whole situation. I don’t know why people just can’t have a civilized conversation. I agree with you for the most part. Israel needs to stop this senseless bombing immediately. This is just not right. But once that is done, what is the solution. In my previous post I shared a video of a Muslim man explaining how he’s been taught from a very young age to hate the Jews and the Christians for that matter. For them it goes back to Mohammad being rejected by the Jews. It’s crazy. You see videos of little kids saying that their goal in life is to kill a Jew and they can’t wait. Can you overcome this kind of hate? Is this an existential issue for the Jews too? They are surrounded by Muslim countries and let’s face it, civilians engage in these atrocities too. Maybe that’s why there is such callousness that we see from Israel. I don’t know. I am just asking questions. What is the solution once the bombing stops which it needs to stop. One state solution would eliminate Jewish majority. How do you think the Jews would end up being treated in that kind of arrangement. I doubt it would be good. I think it needs to be a two state solution even if some of the Jewish settlers have to relocate. Period. It has to happen or we will never see an end to people dying in horrible way on both sides.

Thank you for all you do Trish. I appreciate you so much. Keep up the good work. We need your perspective. ❤️

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Thanks for your thoughtful reply. There are also multiple videos now of Israeli young people saying terrible things about Pals....pre-dating October 7th. This feeling amongst the young has been percolating for a while. The hatred going both ways will not end until there is a fair poltical solution. The bomb the to death plan is suicidal for Israel.

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I agree 100%. A political solution needs to be THE SOLUTION. Is it just me or have the Palestinians refused any attempt at a compromise? It seems that the eradication of Israel is the only thing that would work for them. Is that true or just propaganda? It’s so hard to navigate this.

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Honestly, the more I try to learn about the Middle East conflicts and history the more confused I get. So many seem sure of their own perspectives... all I am sure of is that I must trust God and a life lived with love as the primary goal.

War is gross but those of us who have always lived in security perhaps cannot comprehend why it is sometimes necessary (?)

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