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So are you arguing that Canada should not fight the symptoms as long as they also can't solve the cause?
I'd settle for not aiding the cause.
No I'm saying they can fight the cause but they don't.
Yeah, there's no chance that Canada can "fight the cause". The only way to do so would be to declare war on Israel, and therefore the US, which would very quickly result in us no longer being able to even think about the symptoms we were previously trying to treat.
Given our commitment to standing up for middle powers, it does make sense that we'd get involved in the war on the side of Iran/Lebanon.
There's absolutely zero fucking chance Canada gets involved on the side of Iran. Even without the fallout from the US, the Canadian public would be justifiably livid.
Better than being on the US side.
You might be suicidal, but the vast majority of the country isn't. And even if the US wouldn't just curb stomp us, I (and a lot of other Canadians ) would be furious with our government supporting any theocratic government. And yes, I do include the current Israeli government in that statement.
I wasn't the Canadian leader who said we need to unite middle powers to fight super powers when they get picked on.
"No room for context or nuance allowed right! If the rule isn't applied the exact same way even for oppressive regimes might as well not help anyone!" - you I guess
We're not helping our ally Cuba either.
We've had 80 years of diplomatic relations, but i wouldn't call Cuba an ally. We've never had any formal military ties.
Common enemy in the US for those 80 years
Declare war, Expend more USA resources, further pulling it apart, be remembered as a nation who stood for justice, and with a valiant population.
0 downsides listed here.
Being dead is a downside. Being taken over by the US is a downside. Wasting any and all global influence we may have had on a completely pointless flameout is a massive fucking downside.
Ok, we'll just send troops to Israel? Or is that just more imperialism that people like you cry about?
Boycott Israel maybe
https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2026/06/canada-imposes-fifth-round-of-sanctions-on-facilitators-of-extremist-settler-violence-against-civilians-in-west-bank.html
Literally already doing financial stuff
Not talking about symbolic sanctions against five people but actual sanctions against Israel as a whole.
Here, just to help you with some more info
Canada NOT putting sanctions on organizations that actually bankroll the settlers with YOUR taxes.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wzo-sanctions-israel-9.7234018
But go on and keep saying how Canada is doing all it can.
The conversation is thus
:/
Edit also you responded to the same comment twice
If you want to share your ignorance loudly and proudly, then you'll get corrected.
Canada is not doing anything to stop the systemic abuse by a fascist ethnostate, and then putting a bandaid solution of throwing money at victims who will keep dying with Canadian made weapons.
If you want to boiler plate it to "they're not doing anything and then doing something", then you're full of it.
So- I can agree it's not enough. It's not, "nothing".
That's useless - the settlers are sanctioned from Canada. These aren't global sanctions like those the US puts on people.
Sanctions on the country or stopping armaments from getting to Israel and then into settler hands is more effective.
But no no, you're more informed...you looked up "Canada Israel sanctions".
The by-the-books-written-by-imperialists non-imperial answer is a UN peacekeeping mission. Canada might provide the mission with troops, but they would be operating under a UN mandate, likely to enforce a two-state solution with hard-specified borders. All this would take is for the US, UK, and France to not veto a resolution to organize a peacekeeping mission.
The isolationist non-imperial answer is to stop funding Israel and see what happens.
The actual anti-imperial answer is to give land back to native people, replace capitalism with voluntary association, and decentralize military infrastructure, so people that live in Canada are resilient to invasion but their capacity to project force is limited to individual initiative with the support of a community.
Canada is already imperialistic in Palestine by cooperating with Israel and the US, which is its role in that imperialist project. Imperialism isn't just "when big bad guy invades with troops" like in your Saturday morning Star Wars cartoons, it's a system of power the functions to subordinate other groups of people to the benefit of a privileged metropole so that the resources on the land those people exist on can be extracted (as well as their labour). Or do you think it makes you sound like a pragmatic realist to pretend you're too dumb to know that?
Canada literally hosts companies that are Israeli owned or contribute to Israels genocide campaign and the state invests in Israeli businesses, the fucking CPPIB increased its investment in Israeli businesses, which amounts to tens of billions of dollars; how fucking much of a performance does dedicating a fraction of that to "aid" seem to be to you now?
You aren't a serious person, stop talking about serious topics.
They do this because they know it will enable the continuation of both this genocide and the capitalist system perpetrating it. Stop acting like you don't know why they do this shit, why else would you voice your question in such an obviously manipulative way?
Vile.