It’s come this: Israel is killing in the hopes that will enable it to kill some more. And according to polls the Israeli public and their cheerleaders in Canada largely support that plan.
In a flagrant bid to undercut a US-Iran peace accord, Israel bombed southern Beirut Sunday. Three were killed in a bombing many expected since Israel has repeatedly sought to derail a de-escalation agreement between the United States and Iran. Tel Aviv is seeking to provoke an Iranian response as Donald Trump announced that the US and Iran would sign a peace accord Sunday.
At the same time the Israeli army killed a couple in Tyre and expanded its ‘no go’ zone in southern Lebanon, reported L’Orient Today. They “ordered the evacuation of 29 villages north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, including 16 located deep within the country, more than 30 or even 40 kilometers from the border.” Many thousands more Lebanese will be displaced in what will also likely elicit a reaction from Hezbollah.
The Israeli Jewish public backs the displacement and violence. According to Friday’s Financial Times, “most Israelis back the war with Iran, oppose the ceasefire and want Israel to keep attacking Hizbollah in Lebanon.” The FT reported on a recent Israeli Democracy Institute survey that found Jewish Israelis (as opposed to non-Jewish Israelis) believe it’s not in Israel’s interests to end its war on Iran under the current framework. According to a Jerusalem Post summary, “Among Jewish respondents, fewer than one-third in any political camp said ending the war would be in Israel’s interest. The figures stood at 30% on the Left, 26.5% in the Center, and 29.5% on the Right.”
Jewish Israelis strongly oppose any pause in their country’s violence. Most want greater genocide and ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon. Conversely, few oppose the supremacist violence. On Sunday Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy told Al Jazeera, “There is not really an opposition in Israel when it comes to wars. When it comes to wars, to occupation, to apartheid, there is no opposition. … Israeli public opinion is always favouring wars over any kind of peace.”
While the Jewish Israeli public seeks more blood of Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, etc., the bulk of the world is much less violent. Contrasting Israeli opinion to that of the majority in the belly of the beast is illuminating. A Pew Research poll released this week noted that, “Israelis, Palestinians and Americans have very different views of whether the United States and Israel made a good choice in attacking Iran. Three-quarters of Israelis say the U.S. made the right decision in attacking Iran, while eight-in-ten Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem say it was the wrong decision. As of late April 2026, Americans are more divided, though a majority say that going to war was wrong.”
Canadians are more likely to oppose the US/Israeli war on Iran. Yet, Canada’s main Zionist groups advocate aggressively for aggression on Iran. With most Jewish institutions promoting ties to Israel and a whopping 80% of Canadian Jews having been to that country, Jewish Canadians are much more closely aligned with the violent racist Israeli public than other Canadians on this issue.
Killing in a bid to kill is the state of Zionism in 2026. It must be completely upended.
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