On April 29, HRC subscriber Larry Shapiro was published in The Hill Times, after HonestReporting Canada published an alert to an op-ed by Gwynne Dyer on April 15, where Dyer claimed that Israel “let Hamas carry out” the October 7 terrorist massacres of 1,200 innocent Israelis, without providing evidence, and characterized the targeted assassination of senior Iranian military leaders on April 1 in the Syrian capital of Damascus, which is suspected to be the work of Israel, as an “unprovoked missile attack.”
Shapiro rebutted these false allegations, stating that Dyer seems to have a double standard when it comes to Israel. In any other location, Iran training one of its proxies (Hamas), to infiltrate another country, only to rape, maim and murder innocent civilians would be considered war. However, when this terror is inflicted on Israel, Dyer continues his attempts at twisting Israel’s appropriate response, attempting to turn it into an illegitimate one.
Dyer’s take on Gaza-Israel war is unsupportable speculation, writes Shapiro
Re: “A pantomime crisis, not a real war,” (The Hill Times, April 16, by Gwynne Dyer).
Thousands of rockets have been launched and are continuing to be launched at Israel from Gaza and Lebanon by Iranian proxy armies driving close to 200,000 Israelis from their homes, and Gwynne Dyer doesn’t think that this is a war. Iranian proxy Hamas, thanks to the training its operatives received in Iran invaded Israel to rape and burn, but Dyer doesn’t thing that it’s a war. It would certainly be a war if all this was inflicted on Canada, but the Jewish state, well, to Dyer, those oppressive Israelis had it coming.
In 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took over Iran, he instituted a policy of wiping Israel from the map. To do this, he has attempted to encircle Israel with proxy armies, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and Hezbollah who have been attacking Israel ever since. Israel’s action to take out the Iranian generals conducting the war was legitimate.
If Dyer thinks that attacking an embassy is a war crime, what did he think of Iran’s 1992 attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aries killing 87 and injuring more than 300?To suggest that Israel’s action was undertaken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to save his job is unsupportable speculation.
Larry Shapiro
Calgary, Alberta
