You all have to accept just how powerful Israel is. It isn’t widespread support for Israel that is preventing action, it’s Israel’s genuine power to influence world affairs that is causing the avoidance of action.
Could be worse. America would’ve apologized for the inconvenience and reimbursed them for the ammunition.
Well even Canada still buy and sell weapons to israel
Consider that Canada’s position was to accept having Israel investigate itself in the first place, while Israel is actively working all the time to undermine fundamental systems of international law and is engaged in genocide. Canadian foreign policy wrt Israel is and has been utterly pathetic. How many times has Anand squirmed her way through interviews and official statements trying to look like the government she’s part of gives a shit while actually defending the practices and standards of the Israeli government as the Israeli government displays constant contempt for international law and for Canada?
They didn’t just write a tweet. The Foreign Affairs Minister made a statement yesterday, as mentioned in CBC’s coverage. No, they didn’t make any threats to Israel or anything like that, but an official statement is more than a tweet.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand called that decision “unacceptable” in a statement on Thursday.
“Serious failures were identified in the conduct of the strike, and closing the case without further accountability leaves their families without the answers they have sought for more than two years,” she said, adding that humanitarian workers in conflict zones must be protected.
“Canada expects international humanitarian law to be upheld and will continue pressing for a full accounting of what happened, along with justice for the seven workers who were killed and their families.”
So nothing of actual consequences
Sometimes things take way longer than we would like. This statement says they want humanitarian law applied, which may mean the case will be taken to The Hague.
This happened in 2024 mate nothing is going to happen. Israel kills Canadians with impunity and Canada does nothing about it.
It took over 7 decades and a comoagin of extermination for the West and the rest of powerful countries to make less than the minimum
The statement is a hypocritical one to act like they care
I don’t think you’ve been paying much attention to the many actions and statements of government. The current Canadian government has been twisting itself into knots to not hold Israel accountable.
If failing to meet expectations doesn’t come with consequences then there were never really any expectations.
Not that much better
Yeap, embarrassing for Canada
That is more than just a tweet. It is an explicit public statement of government policy, and an implicit statement that there is a lot going on behind the scenes, out of the public eye, based on the position taken in the public statement.
No it’s a Tweet. There is zero action behind it.
I agree this is just a tweet, but how do we know there’s “zero” action behind it? What available options are not being pursued by the minister?
An interpol arrest warrant like Erdogan
Sanctions on Israel
Anything…
Are these things that the minister can truly achieve, though? Aren’t sanctions up to the MPs? And the interpol arrest warrant, up to interpol?
Unlike Trump, who tweets indiscriminately, tweets from the Canadian government are not ‘just a tweet’. They are used judiciously and with forethought.
Maybe that would be true - if there was much the Canadian government could do at all.
The Middle East isn’t our region, and the one major player in our own region has very strong opinions of their own.
Canada could stop sending weapons to Israel and disband the Israel/Canada free trade agreement
That’s true, I guess. I don’t know how many weapons we send them - it’s almost all the US and Germany as of last I checked - but it looks like we do have free trade.
That would matter more than a Tweet, but not enough to really make Israel pause.
And this coming week, we have a fanatical Israeli settler who encourages genocide coming to Canada to give a talk about it!
I am not sure the legacy of Lester Pearson would agree.
Sooo what would the equivalent of that be today? The solution was to separate the warring parties with peacekeepers - separating the parties in this modern conflict amounts to invading and occupying Israel/Palestine, and I don’t even think Canada would win that war. And, Israel’s ally was European colonial powers just pursuing colonial interests, so they could be reasoned with, as opposed to the ideological-religious morass that’s driving the US.
In Kosovo, the mandate of the UN force changed from Peace Keeper to Peace Maker. But you are correct, in the Suez Crisis, they just hated each other. I do not really think either side was particularly genocidal. When one side is ideologically genocidal, probably not much except overwhelming military power will work to keep that side constrained.
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