Will Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau finally keep his word?

A few years ago Trudeau called for healing Palestinian children. Today, he appears to have forgotten his own words.

These days, Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish feels like a forgotten man. From his Toronto home, he has watched with an exhausting mixture of frustration, grief and anger as Israel’s incessant persecution of Palestinians in occupied Palestine briefly pierced, once again, the complacent consciousness of Western political and media elites only after an eruption of violence. And he has waited for those same complacent Western political and media elites – who once fêted the Palestinian-Canadian physician, teacher, humanitarian and, perhaps most importantly, father with flattery, awards and honours – to heed his pleas to stop Israel’s sinister designs and heal Palestine’s grievous wounds.