Warren Kinsella: My latest: Trudeau is beyond redemption.

Outstanding writing. Warren is at his best when he writes about heartfelt issues, those that deal with humanity itself. Even in basic arithmetic, one plus one inevitably leads to two. Causation is at the very heart of all conflict and its inevitable consequences.

Take October 7th of last year: there is and can be but one cause of such inhumane brutality that the participants move heaven and earth to deny. Even Hamas terrorists know that their murderous origins are not good for their cause - they went out of their way to plan and execute countless operations in Israel that killed both military personnel but primarily civilians, most of whom were already sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. In fact, many kibbutz were sending money into Palestine and doing collectively what they could to help individual Palestinians and their humanity and kindness was rewarded with murder, rape, torture and other assorted atrocities. Many Israelis were at least sympathetic to the cause of the Two-State Solution but unsurprisingly, not anymore. 

Put another way, but for the Hamas terrorist attacks, the Israeli incursions into Gaza and Lebanon would not be happening now and likely would never have happened. Some Palestinians gave way to their most base instincts and a desire to perpetrate evil and so it was done.

It's incredible to believe that these terrorists had no idea how Netanyahu and the IDF would respond. It's almost mind-boggling. No country in the world is better at collective self-defence than Israel. Evidence of that is clear in Gaza and Lebanon. What Hamas and Hezbollah have brought onto themselves is their own destruction. Israel will never stop until both organizations become a shadow of their former selves, the military equivalent of The Islamic State and ISIS.

With their indictments, the ICC has shown itself not to be impartial, much less judicially blind to influence. Netanyahu and Gallant make easy targets, with no mention of the primary roles played by either the Hamas or Hezbollah leadership. Where are those indictments? In short, nowhere to be found. Genuine war crimes and crimes against humanity come in all shades and almost inevitably, they are foreign to the legitimate cause of collective self-defense. 

When this war ends, a war for survival, on one side and another waged to eradicate Israel, it will not all be lily-white. That's how wars go. But in the end, Israel will come out of this war more united and stronger as a country, while thinking Palestinians will be looking for a new way to coexist and eventually lead to a path from where their own legitimate state can ultimately emerge. Terrorists are transitory. So are governments. But races aren't - something that both Israelis and Palestinians already know only too well.