“Israel does not purchase arms from Canada, nor has Canada purchased Israeli weapons in the past decade, making this move purely symbolic. ”
So this vote was just a sad attempt to buy some votes?
Why try to deal with over immigration or housings crisis when you can pass useless bills that mean nothing and get you votes?
What hurt was being compared to South African apartheid regime. That was stinging. That regime became politically isolated and embargoed.
Coincidentally the soft embargo put in place on SodaStream has been very effective so I think for a country that exports these days mainly on HiTech/Defense this will hurt a lot. Being shut out of international markets/financial markets would be very destructive for Israel.
Israel won two of the several genocidal wars directed at it before it even *had* allies, so I’m pretty sure they’ll be fine, even if the US cuts ties (which it won’t).
It will be fine if it’s other countries like Canada that give barely any arms and have no influence
The whole “actions have consequences” thing applies to both sides of the conflict, it’s not a zero sum game.
If a well-respected democratic nation decides to embargo you maybe…just maybe…you might want to examine yourself.
I’ll just add, Netenyahu is NOT Israel.
You can be pro an independent, free Palestine, a strong, independent Israel, *and* anti-Netenyahu, anti-Hamas, anti-Iranian Ayatollahs and anti-Hezbollah.
We should work with partners and politicians who want peace. There’s plenty of them in Israel.
Israel needs to quit fucking around, and the shit that needs to be done before support wanes because the attention span of the west is short as fuck. None of them remember 10/7.
we can stop supporting Israel with aid but still do business with them
I’m pretty sure Israel doesn’t need help to defeat Hamas.
we should also stop supporting UNRWA if we want to do this symbolic arms embargo.
They were given ample opportunity to work with their supporting nations. This rings very much like someone repeatedly being warned but still surprised when the warnings turn out to be real.
As they should. Fuck Bibi and his far right extremist government.
Israel certainly should be concerned that more and more nations will drop import / export relationships with them.
My hot take… This is coordinated with the US as a means to pressure BB…
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“Israel does not purchase arms from Canada, nor has Canada purchased Israeli weapons in the past decade, making this move purely symbolic. ”
So this vote was just a sad attempt to buy some votes?
Why try to deal with over immigration or housings crisis when you can pass useless bills that mean nothing and get you votes?
What hurt was being compared to South African apartheid regime. That was stinging. That regime became politically isolated and embargoed.
Coincidentally the soft embargo put in place on SodaStream has been very effective so I think for a country that exports these days mainly on HiTech/Defense this will hurt a lot. Being shut out of international markets/financial markets would be very destructive for Israel.
Israel won two of the several genocidal wars directed at it before it even *had* allies, so I’m pretty sure they’ll be fine, even if the US cuts ties (which it won’t).
It will be fine if it’s other countries like Canada that give barely any arms and have no influence
The whole “actions have consequences” thing applies to both sides of the conflict, it’s not a zero sum game.
If a well-respected democratic nation decides to embargo you maybe…just maybe…you might want to examine yourself.
I’ll just add, Netenyahu is NOT Israel.
You can be pro an independent, free Palestine, a strong, independent Israel, *and* anti-Netenyahu, anti-Hamas, anti-Iranian Ayatollahs and anti-Hezbollah.
We should work with partners and politicians who want peace. There’s plenty of them in Israel.
Israel needs to quit fucking around, and the shit that needs to be done before support wanes because the attention span of the west is short as fuck. None of them remember 10/7.
we can stop supporting Israel with aid but still do business with them
I’m pretty sure Israel doesn’t need help to defeat Hamas.
we should also stop supporting UNRWA if we want to do this symbolic arms embargo.
They were given ample opportunity to work with their supporting nations. This rings very much like someone repeatedly being warned but still surprised when the warnings turn out to be real.
As they should. Fuck Bibi and his far right extremist government.
Israel certainly should be concerned that more and more nations will drop import / export relationships with them.
My hot take… This is coordinated with the US as a means to pressure BB…
Does Canada even make weapons?