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Well, thanks “Steve”. There will be ships to evacuate Canadians from Lebanon by mid-week. Thanks a lot. That’s a big help to the 7 Canadians killed yesterday. Exactly how late are we in closing the barn door? Four little kids from Montreal, for heaven’s sake. How wrong is that. Their father is a pharmacist for Jean Coutu. You can’t get more Quebecois than that. I don’t care where their family is originally from.

Is Steve still voicing our “unequivocal support for Israel”? Why is Canada so strongly in the Israeli camp? What’s our connection? Yes, there are a lot of Jews in Canada, and there are a lot of Arabs too. Lebanese in particular in Montreal. We have lots of them. Lots of Montreal Jews too. You know, we probably have a few Montreal Jewish Lebanese or would they be Montreal Lebanese Jews? Yep, I'm sure we have some of them.

Where does defence end and offence begin?

I couldn’t agree more with the idea that every country has a right to defend itself. Who wouldn’t agree with this? Nobody in their right mind would say to any State that they should just put up and shut up and be assaulted. But what is a “measured response”? What is reasonable and what is over the top? Please don't tell me that the deaths of 4 toddlers from Montreal are "regrettable". I can't stand to hear that word any more. And forget about the phrase "collateral damage". That one makes me ill.

Cease fire now, please.

Arguing on behalf of the obvious. That reminds me that yesterday, outside Concordia, I saw some people on a 3-day hunger strike in support of political prisoners in Iran. Why bother? Is anyone in Montreal against the political prisoners held in Iran? No. We all know it is wrong to jail people for political opinions, don’t we? If you are on a hunger strike, isn’t it to make someone in authority change the rules? Ahmadinejad and Khameini don’t care about a couple of guys on the corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve. Don’t waste your energy.