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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, JOE BIDEN, RISHI SUNAK, EMMANUEL MACRON, OLAF SCHOLZ, JUSTIN TRUDEAU, GIORGIA MELONI, ANTHONY ALBANESE and other NATO leaders are war criminals who should be brought before the International Criminal Court for genocidal war crimes against Palestinian citizens.

 

Down with Israeli Apartheid and Genocide

 

 

October 9, 2023

Dear Rachel Bendayan and Ruba Ghazal,

As the federal and provincial representatives of my riding, I am writing to you to insist that you work to uphold international and human rights laws, and condemn the Netanyahu government's declaration of war against the Palestinians of Gaza. This means rejecting human rights imperialism and protecting the Palestinian right of return. As even the people of Israel have little control against the rise of fascism in their country, the same disgusting authoritarianism is at work in Canada's role in the US foreign policy of Great Power Conflict against Russia and China. The Maidan Revolution that was co-opted by the CIA and right-wing forces in Ukraine has led that country into an unwinnable war that has caused Ukraine to lose access to the Black Sea and control of its resources. It has decimated labour and political rights, and led to the deaths of now almost 500,000 soldiers, most of them Ukrainian. Half the country has been displaced by what even American military strategists, like Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, say is the dumbest military campaign since Vietnam and Afghanistan. This enriches people like Victoria Nuland, who have investments in weapons manufacturing companies, weakens the EU economies, creates fear and mistrust between countries, and threatens nuclear exchange. The loathsome celebration of Waffen SS member Yaroslav Hunka in Parliament, which was not an accident, says to the world that Global North partners have no intention of changing course and will allow this pro-billionaire policy orientation to persist. You representatives are presiding over these dying days of liberal democracy. I hope that you are doing more for the rights and freedoms of humanity than the display of mediocrity shown by Parliament's celebration of a fascist leads us to expect. Israeli policy towards Palestine is one flash point for the life of democracy, as is Ukraine, as is ecology and as is the right of workers to organize in their interest, which is the interest of all. Your neoliberal trickle-down policies are nothing and your current war path will prove to be nothing as well, as BRICS partners understand perfectly well. As for the federal government's woke posturing, the analysis of all of these issues, including today's "progressive neoliberalism" is found in Leon Trotsky's critique of "zoological matrialism" in his 1931 essay "Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It." I recommend that you read it. Please pass it on to your contemptible colleagues in Parliament.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm

sincerely,

Dr. Marc James Léger

 

 

October 16, 2023

Hello Mr. Leger,

Thank you for your message of sympathy. We unequivocally condemn Hamas' terrorist attacks, which primarily targeted civilians. We also condemn all reprisals targeting civilian populations, in particular the bombing of civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip as well as the total blockade of this enclave where more than two million people live. We call for an immediate ceasefire and the immediate establishment of peace negotiations in order to bring about a peaceful and negotiated resolution to the conflict. We must never forget that the military occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal. Québec Solidaire will always put forward respect for international law, the protection of all civilian lives, the creation of an independent Palestinian state within the borders established by the UN, as well as the right of the population of Israel to live in peace and security. The entire Quebec Solidaire caucus expresses its full solidarity with the innocent victims and their families who paid with their lives due to the conflict.

Once again, thank you for writing to us. Solidarity greetings,
MP Ruba Ghazal’s team