Israel has historically been a top receiver of Canadian arms exports, with CAN$21 million worth of military materiel exported to Israel in 2022, according to Radio Canada, following CAN$26 million in shipments in 2021. That places Israel among the top 10 recipients of Canadian arms exports.
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Isreal is a terrorist state now. They’ve became the thing they said they’re against.
I support this decision but feel like it’s too late. The damage is well beyond repair.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
Israel has been a terrorist state since Germany, Britain, the US, together as the UN decided that the Palestinians should pay the price for Germany’s Holocaust of the Jewish people.
It was going on before that even with Zionist terrorist groups bombing and killing Palestinians and even the British.
Canada paused military shipments to Israel on Jan. 8th, has stopped for realsies now apparently, and resumed UNRWA funding before any payments were missed. On Feb. 14th the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand issued a joint statement calling any Rafah offensive “catastrophic” and calling for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. My guess is evidence of war crimes and potentially genocide is so undeniable that countries are scrambling to distance themselves from what will be years of condemnation by the ICJ and other regulatory/watchdog institutions.
I’m Canadian, and for months I’ve been posting about how my country has given Israel too much support given the evidence of long-standing apartheid and other human rights violations (and war crimes since Oct. 7th). My first post on Lemmy was actually about how ashamed I was that Western countries like Canada were being so silent about the Gazan crisis. Hopefully measures like stopping sales and promoting a two-state solution are first steps on the road to stopping the suffering of the Palestinians and making up for those months of inaction or even unethical support.
As of September 2019, under the EIPA, the Minister of Foreign Affairs must deny exports and brokering permit applications for military goods and technology if there is a substantial risk that the items would undermine peace and security, or could be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws, acts constituting an offence under international conventions relating to terrorism or organized crime, or serious acts of gender-based violence.
Turkey is blacklisted since 2021 for cause, and if you’ve followed the way they’ve dealt with Kurdish rebels and civilians, it’s completely clear why. Same with Israel and Gaza/Lebanon, the IDF and IAF have repeatedly demonstrated an astonishing lack of restraint towards civilians if doing so means they cannot pursue their military objectives.
About fucking time, been sending those fuck head munitions after being told we shouldn’t but did because Canada upholds its contracts.
Where’d all the Zionist go?
Busy trying to settle Gaza
I’d say “to hell” but there’s a whole religious canon thing in there somewhere.
Finally took em long enough.
Canada hasn’t been sending any arms to Israel; the sum total impact of this is a handful (like literally, one order) of civilian trucks and night-vision goggles or something that the IDF isn’t going to get anymore.
It is still a nice gesture and the pro-Israeli-government people are rewardingly up in arms about how they could possibly be so openly disrespectful and anti-Semitic as to do this.
it’s amazing how fast israel has burned literally every ounce of good will they had post october 7th just by refusing to do the bare minimum and treat civilians with respect and decency during an attack.
They think they have the political capital to do genocide and ethnic cleansing. Let’s see if their gamble succeeds. I hope it’s their doom.
Not every. There’s still too much support and lack of condemnation out there.
Good, all countries should sanction israel.
