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It’s commonly said that criminals of all types, political assassins especially, often return to the scene of their crime to relive the emotional-physical pleasures and sensations they experienced while in the commission of their original crime or series of crimes. 

During WWII, the Free French coined the saying, “Les Assassins Revienment Toujours Sur Les Lieux de Leur Crime” to refer to the Vichy elements in Southern France who joined forces with the Nazi and helped to kill all those who were their mutual enemies.

One could argue that the horrors of what is happening in 2023 to indigenous Palestinians are once again faced with Zionist Israel’s unrelenting brutal aggression, and those Vichy elements that exist within governments throughout the world who also support the Zionist ideology within Israel and are willing to accept or contribute, in various different ways, to the massacres and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

Consequently, today’s Palestinians now are victims of the same horrors their grandparents faced in 1948 against tough-minded, cold-blooded Zionist Irgun and Stern Gang terrorists, who, themselves, had also once been expertly trained by England’s own elite, murderous counter-insurgency forces. 

Back then, the Zionists, and those ‘Vichy forces’ around the world who were willing to collaborate with their crimes against humanity. They remain prepared to serve as collaborators and accessories to whatever genocidal crimes have already been committed, or still will have to be, to accomplish the Zionists single-pointed geo-political-religious goals and fascist fantasies to create a white, racist, Jewish-only state. 

What the world continues to witness in living color, instantaneously-recorded and transmitted throughout the world via the latest I-Phone technology, is the reality that “birds of the feather always flock together; and the assassins always come back to the scene of their crimes.” The difference now is that the world can see all the evil things that Israeli and their American-Canadian allies are doing. 

Yet nothing has changed for the better over the past eight decades; only the ever-escalating numbers of murdered, displaced, refugeed Palestinians; pushed ever closer to the point of extermination or being forcibly removed to some out-of-sight-out-of-mind, subsistence existence somewhere on yet other ghettoized “reservations” or “reserves” like what happened to the Jews in Warsaw and North America’s First Nation peoples in earlier times when they also were physically removed by invading American and Canadian settler-colonists to make way for whatever their own selfish, human desires for yet more and more expansion and growth; the same ruthless, conquering, Zionist settler-colonial peoples in Ersatz Israel now also desiring ever more of the Palestinians ancient homelands solely for themselves for the same reasons. The more things change the more they remain the same.

The other sad reality underlying the historical reality in 2023 in occupied Palestine is that the collective nations of the world have barely lifted a finger to make any appreciable difference in the lives of Palestinian peoples; many of them still ideologically-opposed to any kind of BDS movement against Israel, because, one must assume, they’re all looking for some cut of the spoils of war for their own greedy selves. 

Only in recent days has the U.N. General Assembly even finally managed to bring itself to vote in favor of a paltry, too-little, with the temporary ceasefire, with, wonders of wonder, even the complicit ‘Vichy’ governments of Canada and Australia acquiescing, with the U.S., predictably, voting against a ceasefire; but with Canada’s added caveat that the Hamas Freedom Fighters (this writer’s description, not theirs), still are ridiculously-characterized by the Zionist State and all its Vichy allies as being “terrorists”; when, in truth of fact, they, themselves, are the real terrorists. 

Hamas asked, by Canada and other UN members, in return for their largesse to even grant a temporary ceasefire to the Palestinians for all the slaughter they’ve thus far sustained; to also, as a quid pro quo gesture be willing to: release all the hostages their holding; turn in all their weaponry, and; virtually lay down like dogs and totally surrender to their shameless aggressors.

Such an outrageous suggestion, though, shows absolutely no real understanding or compassion for the realities that exist on the ground in the ‘slaughter zone’ that yet remains in Gaza, the West Bank and all the rest of occupied Palestine. 

Clearly, once such a reality were to occur, and Hamas removed as the only protective military force between them and the Zionists, there would virtually absolutely be no one else left to protect and defend the innocent, unarmed, defenseless Palestinian men, women and children against Israel’s violent Zionist settler-colonist hordes that already have been empowered by the state to torment or kill them; destroy their homes, and commit whatever depraved acts against them until they finally will be forced to leave their homes in the occupied territories for good. If that ever did happen, then the real final ‘duck shoot’ will begin. Yet no one in the U.N. has the courage to label the Zionist state, and all who continue to empower them, like Biden, and good old U.SA’s House of Representatives , as the actual real, enabling “terrorists”.

In fact, the majority of so-called ‘normal’ Canadians and Americans over 30 or 40, already have basically demonstrated by their unwillingness to take any action on behalf of the plight of the Palestinian people that they’ve already drank the spiked Kool-aid poured down their throats by the corporate mainstream politicians and their heavily-propagandized corporate press; passively prepared to accept whatever has happened, or will yet happen, to the Palestinian people since October 7. 

They’ve also readily accepted, too, since the end of WWII, the Zionists non-stop theft, ever since, of the indigenous Palestinian’s homelands in Palestine; of which the United Nations, as the only body with any power to remotely do anything about it, has never so much as entertained the possibility of being prepared to grant these stolen lands back to their original indigenous Palestinian inhabitants.

Yet, in fact, in the annals of even their own sordid history, Canada and the United States, as ruthless settler-colonists in their own right, especially, as two of the biggest perpetrators during the New World’s previous two centuries of mass genocide against their own indigenous peoples, not surprisingly, have, since the beginning of the Zionist invasion of Palestine, become two of its  biggest ‘Vichy’ supporters – militarily, financially, morally and ideologically – of Israel’s Nakba Catastrophe in 1948, and ever since, up to and including now, the 2nd Nakba Catastrophe in 2023. 

One could point to the extreme popularity among U.S. and Canadian citizens to Zionist Israel’s ideological political beliefs as always having fitted like a-hand-in-a-glove with their Canadian and American allies own Christian beliefs; reaching far back into the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, that speak of their own megalomaniacal geo-political rights and desires, themselves, to create ever-expanding strategic bases in the New and Old Worlds, and particularly in the Middle East, in order to secure whatever their own hegemonic plans for power and conquest. 

This perhaps also explains why America’s current leader, President Joe Biden, for decades, has proudly declared himself to be a “Zionist”; while further declaring, “If there never ever had been an Israel, we Americans would have had to have created one for ourselves; adding, ”Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who is safe today.” This says it all! Of course, this goes, as well, for Canada, because mostly everything America ever does, politically, Canada, eventually, always has followed suit; like “Tweedledum and Tweedledee”. 

Nazi, Fascist, Zionist Connections Go Way Back

Long before WWI to WWI, and even long before that during the previous century, United States and Canadian political, business and corporate interests unquestionably have always had strong, ultra-nationalist, economic and political leanings, historically, with ties to fascist powers in the Western World and other beyond, worldwide. 

This was vividly borne out recently, during a symbolic honoring ceremony that was held in Ottawa during the current war in Ukraine. Canada, with a strong presence in attendance of immigrant Western Ukrainians, with strong ‘Bandera’ ties going back to the WWII Nazi-era, yet who nevertheless were allowed to emigrate over time to Canada, gathered in Ottawa to honor one particular WWII Veteran, along with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his Asst. PM Chrystia Freeland and Canada’s entire assembled House of Commons present, as well. 

The only problem was, as the ceremony revealed after the fact, much to the chagrin and embarrassment of the entire Canadian government contingent and true-blue Canadians in attendance or watching on television, they actually, unknowingly, had mistakenly celebrated a WWII war veteran who, instead of having bravely fought for the Allies, had actually fought with the ‘Galicia’ Division of the Nazi SS against Russia; a key member of the Allied Forces back then who had played an instrumental part in ultimately winning the war for all the good guys in the West. It was one of those awkward faux pas moments that everyone always tries to forget but never will.

Canada’s One-time Chance to be World’s Leading Peace-keeping Nation

During the nearly past two years that this writer has been deeply committed to writing, first, about the fascist war in Ukraine, and now about the fascist war in Gaza, it has caused him to take yet another hard, deep look at why he first chose to leave his native homeland of the United States half-a-century before, and immigrate to Canada.

By then he was sick-and-tired of America’s embroilments in one endless war after another, many of which were of America’s own malevolent doing; endlessly assassinating, in the process, one progressive, democratic world leader after another, even its own beloved President J.F. Kennedy, while robbing the world of so many hopes and dreams.

When he finally learned of the many like-minded anti-war dissidents and draft dodgers who were then fleeing for safety to Canada’s Far North and the protection of its then outspoken and forthright Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the father of the current PM Justin Trudeau, who was granting so many frustrated American Patriots with harbors of safety; he, at once, knew the direction he had to take, as well.

A Canadian Peacekeeper Extraordinaire

Lester B. Pearson, the 14^th Prime Minister of Canada, who preceded Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister, already was well-known then as the “Father of UN Peacekeeping”, and the kind of patriot role-model the world so desperately needs as examples to look up to in today’s otherwise fascist-dominated world. 

Pearson had previously won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in trying to quell the Suez Crisis; and still other crises in former Yugoslavia; Golan Heights, and; Cambodia; while providing cutting-edge training, as well, for Canadian military personnel as peacekeepers of part of a well-equipped military, powerful enough to act as skilled intervenors in serious world conflicts. 

The Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific was just then being founded on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, whose slogan was, “Making education a force to unite people, nations and culture for peace and a sustainable future. 

Lester Pearson’s leadership was a high-water mark for Canada’s stature in the world. His highly respected, highly-valued United Nation’s Blue Helmuts and Blue Beret Peacekeepers, once the envy of the world.

Canada’s Major General Romeo Dallaire Another Lester Pearson

From 1993 to 1995, Canada was a singular sterling world leader in United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world; specifically in the African nation of Rwanda, where the mission of some 1,200 of Canada’s highly-regarded U.N Blue Helmut/Blue Beret Peacekeepers, under the able command of Canada’s Major General Romeo Dallaire, tried to quell the impending civil war between the Tutu’s and Hutu’s, for which he and his UN Blue Helmuts received world-wide acclaim; even though, try as Dallaire and his brave UN Peacekeepers attempted to do, eventually proved to be beyond even their capacity to stop the ultimate slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in their 1994 Civil War.

Quote from Lester Pearson on the monument (Copyrighted free use)

Yet, just as what happened in the wholesale slaughter that occurred in the war in Ukraine, and now in the war between the Zionists and Hamas, it always boils down, not to what is right or wrong, or the innocent lives of the victims involved, but to whatever the particular -interests are of the politicians and governments involved.

 In Rwanda, it was the despicable role played by U.S. President Bill Clinton who month, prior to when the massacre occurred, Clinton had produced a presidential directive stating that the United States will not engage in any humanitarian operation, unless its in its self-interest.” When Major General Dallaire himself had an opportunity to later meet with Clinton’s subordinates, he learned from them that the President had said to them, “Don’t tell me what the hell is going on, I don’t want to know.”

After Romeo Dallaire’s famous genocide fax, when Dallaire declared his intent to militarily intervene on behalf of the impending Rwanda victims, despite the fact that such actions fell outside his mandate of the U.N.’s Chapter 6, Dallaire was nevertheless planning to go after the arms cache’s of the extremist marauding militias, until Dallaire was given the direct order, “You will not intervene. You will not put your troops at risk.”

Even as the genocide between the Tutu’s and Hutu’s began, the U.N. Security Council continued to quibble and debate before the UN Secretary General, General Boutrous Boutrous Ghali had 2,000 ‘Blue Helmut’ Peacekeepers withdraw from the field, on the basis that, “the world can’t handle 450 peacekeepers killed.”

In the aftermath of the genocide, after over 40,000 Rwandans had perished in escalating cholera outbreaks, Dallaire asked to be relieved of his command. 

After returning to Canada, Dallaire attempting suicide four more times, before undergoing an especially gruelling therapy session, where he bought a bottle of scotch, sat on a park bench and drank the whole bottle, crying for hours while preparing to end his own life. Instead, Dallaire eventually turned instead to writing a best-selling book about the excruciating experiences he underwent during the Rwandan Massacre and its aftermath; that he aptly titled, “Shake Hands With The Devil”, that also became an award-winning major motion picture by the same name.

Major General Dallaire, indeed, did have the vision of another Lester Pearson when he took on the awesome, unenviable task of trying to avert the mass genocide of some 800,000 Tutsi and Huti indigenous peoples 

In these dark times, Canada, Israel, Palestine, indeed the world, desperately needs the likes of many more Prime Minister Lester Pearson, and humanists like Canada’s Major General Romeo Dallaire, to renew the role of UN Peacekeeper Blue Helmuts and the hope of truly creating a lasting peace in the world.

Right this moment, even as this writer jots down these last few words, the United Nations should be training and preparing UN Peacekeepers to immediately be deployed in Gaza, the West Bank, and the rest of occupied Palestine. But how many: 500; 5,000; 10,000, or more? Whether the Zionists or Israelis like it or not, this madness must somehow be stopped before it, too, turns into yet another 800,00 or more massacre nightmare, not only for the Palestinians but the entire human race. 

The current worldwide news blackout about the truth of what is or isn’t going on in occupied Palestine and Zionist Israel, and the ‘canned reality’ that has been created in its place, is frightening, and should be frightening to any and all who care about what this sombre presage suggests for the future of the world.

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The writer Jerome Irwin is a Canadian-American writer who originally was a Criminology student working in one of America’s local police departments. For decades, Irwin has sought to call world attention to problems of environmental degradation and unsustainability caused by a host of environmental-ecological-spiritual issues that exist between the conflicting world philosophies of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

Irwin is the author of the book, “The Wild Gentle Ones; A Turtle Island Odyssey” (www.turtle-island-odyssey.com), a spiritual odyssey among the native peoples of North America that has led to numerous articles pertaining to: Ireland’s Fenian Movement; native peoples Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement; AIPAC, Israel & the U.S. Congress anti-BDS Movement; the historic Battle for Palestine & Siege of Gaza, as well as; the many violations constantly being waged by industrial-corporate-military-propaganda interests against the World’s Collective Soul. The author and his wife are long-time residents on the North Shore of British Columbia.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.