Readers assail Liberals' track record on Israel and antisemitism, express hope in the war on woke, warn of a 'post-truth world,' and more

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Re: Joly asks Israel not to retaliate after it was hit by missile barrage from Iran — Mia Rabson, Oct. 1

There are days — and today is one of them — when I seriously question what planet Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly is living on.

Iran fired 180 ballistic missiles at Israel today. It was a combination of the superior capability of the IDF and sheer luck that none of them caused any damage and there were no casualties. But Joly doesn’t think Israel should retaliate. … Why, pray tell?

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The Liberal government’s track record of supporting Israel in its existential fight for survival is hardly stellar. When an errant rocket fired by Hamas terrorists hit the parking lot of the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Joly wasted no time in condemning Israel for the explosion. It was proven very quickly that it was not an Israeli rocket that caused the mishap. Yet even with all the evidence, nearly one year later, Israel is still waiting for an apology and a retraction from Trudeau and Joly, which will never come.

And then of course, egged on by NDP MP Heather McPherson, Joly stopped all Canadian arms shipments to Israel last winter. Just three weeks ago, McPherson took time away from her latest project of manufacturing a Palestinian state out of thin air, to further spur Joly to ensure that no arms from Canada reached Israel via the U.S.

Given this abysmal history, does the foreign minister seriously believe for one moment that anything that comes out of her mouth will have any traction with Israel?

E. Joan O’Callaghan, Toronto

The arrogance and conceit of Mélanie Joly in her sanctimonious pontificating is astounding. Who is she (or Canada, for that matter) to be preaching on such matters elsewhere in the world, where both she (and Canada) are essentially irrelevant? It’s embarrassing to listen to her (or read her statements). Other than the cohort of Lebanese-Canadian dual passport holders, we have no skin in this game, and should keep our precious faux concerns to ourselves.

Morton Doran, Fairmont, B.C.

Re: Civilization is winning the war on terror — Conrad Black, Sept. 28; Ontario’s education curriculum is infected with Marxist nonsense — Jamie Sarkonak, Sept. 27; and How Canada became the sick man of North America — John Ivison, Sept. 28

Kudos to Conrad Black for trying to reassure readers that the western world is not going to hell in handbasket. In the grand scheme of things there is evidence of some tiny stirrings of common sense making themselves heard in the West, which is slowly providing some pushback to the blatant extremism of the past decade. One can almost hear the audible sigh of relief.

And then there is the painful reminder of Canada. Those who despair over how low Canada has fallen in such a relatively short time are still neck-deep in the far-leftist muck. Jamie Sarkonak writes that our public education system is and has been for decades an insidious indoctrination experiment foisted on the most vulnerable segment of the population. And John Ivison laments the dismal decline of the Canadian economy.

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