Hey, YOU!!

A celebratory rally held in Edmonton on Oct. 8, just one day after an orchestrated series of massacres by Hamas murdered more than 1,000 Israeli civilians. Photo by Greg Southam/Postmedia

Hey, you ... not to be rude but I did want to

capture your attention because it seems to be

elsewhere when we so badly would like you to

be more aware ... for want of a better term. We're

your neighbours, we've been your neighbours for

countless generations. Like you, we fled from our

original homelands to find peace, security and

prosperity in Canada. Like you, we sometimes

came from the same place of origin. Let's see now

neighbours from Germany, Italy, Poland, Ukraine

Russia, China, Japan, Vietnam, India to name but

a few. You've been our neighbours/we've been

your neighbours, sharing good times and of course

commiserating over bad times, laughing and

crying as one big Canadian family. Suddenly

and to our surprise we're no longer one big family

here in Canada. A social schism has cast us asunder

for we Canadian Jews have become despised and

oppressed, threatened and subject to criminal acts

of violence and hatred. Neighbours, where are you

now while Jew-hate festers and rallying cries of

Intefada, Final Solution and allegiance to a terror

mob is telegraphed from the streets we all share?

We haven't changed, we're still Canadian Jews who

cherish our country. Perhaps you too haven't changed

and what we Jews thought was acceptance and mutual

care was merely a delusion. Shame, shame on you!