Gaza is a smoking ruin today because Islamists still think they’re invincible

More than 20 years ago, the Mackenzie Institute newsletter identified a bizarre and deadly defect in then-Palestinian leader and terrorist Yasser Arafat: “an impulsive urge for trying to take the pot with a pair of fours.” But it’s not just him. It’s on display today from Gaza to Toronto, and we need to stand up to it.

Admittedly Canadian pro-Hamas protesters could be forgiven for thinking they’re strong. They appear to have the police on their side, and much of the political class including that jangling dunce Jagmeet Singh. But I think it’s as bad a misread of the situation on the ground as Arafat’s belief he was about to destroy Israel.

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Canadians generally do not support genocidal terror or racial and religious hate, and these jackals will take down the craven or wicked politicians now grovelling before them. But they will do a lot of harm along the way, including to public trust in our institutions. So what’s behind this chronic overplaying of their hand?

Wikipedia offers the following mealy-mouthed rubbish on Arafat: “Palestinians generally view him as a martyr who symbolized the national aspirations of his people, while many Israelis regarded him as a terrorist. Palestinian rivals, including........

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