Canada intends to recognize Palestinian state in September, Prime Minister Carney says

“Canada has long been committed to a two-state solution, an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state living side by side with the State of Israel in peace and security,” said Carney, flanked by Foreign Minister Anita Anand.

The move follows similar announcements by France, which has said it will recognize a Palestinian state in September, and the UK, which has said that it will too if Israel does not meet conditions that include agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.

“Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations,” Carney said. “We intend to do so because the Palestinian Authority has committed to lead much needed reform.”

Carney added that the Palestinian Authority’s President Mahmoud Abbas assured him that his administration will hold long-delayed elections in 2026 in which Hamas will “play no part.”

I suppose NOBODY will be asking if "Palestine" will be recognizing Israel as a sovereign state, right?

It only took three posts!

Israel is intentionally starving and killing innocent Palestinian civilians.

Genocidal Israel must be condemned worldwide.

Thank you Canada, France and the UK.

More countries must follow their lead.

The United States needs to cut off all aid to Israel.

More of this please.

Basically it’s going to be Israel and the US against the rest of the world.

Don't forget our friends in Russia, R8

[quote] Basically it’s going to be Israel and the US against the rest of the world.

We still love Israel.

[quote] Don't forget our friends in Russia, [R8]

If Russia loves Israel they have had a strange way of showing it seeing as they trained the October 7 terrorists.

This is virtue signaling bullshit which will accomplish nothing.

[quote] This is virtue signaling bullshit which will accomplish nothing.

Agreed. Canada could send armed forces to aid Hamas if they really cared about this.

Very poor call, the last thing they need right now is to piss off the US regime. Just wait until the day the new Dem president is sworn in, when he'll immediately go on an apology tour to all the former allies. No one will care then.

[quote]Carney added that the Palestinian Authority’s President Mahmoud Abbas assured him that his administration will hold long-delayed elections in 2026 in which Hamas will “play no part.”

Uh-huh. I'll believe it when I see it.

Good. Yes, I know the religion is terrible for gays. I know they kill LGBT people. It's horrible. That still doesn't mean I believe innocent people, eapecially women and children, should die. You can believe in both.

With the Israeli legislators voting to fully annex the occupied territories just last week (which they call the West Bank) and so little left of Gaza, there's really isn't much left to make a second 'state' out of. And still the Americans will keep bank rolling their defence.

Australia will also be recognising Palestine as a state with an announcement from the Australian Prime minister expected soon:

Too bad these countries don't demand that Hamas set the hostages free and then surrender. (And they should wait out the 48-hour news cycles before believing Hamas propaganda because the stories keep falling apart.) Instead they're enabling a terrorist organization that started the war with a horrific massacre affecting thousands of civilians, then embedded themselves among their own citizens to ensure there would be collateral damage, and they continue to prolong the war by not releasing the hostages and not surrendering. The western world should remain united against terrorism, not reward it. They're empowering Hamas to prolong all the suffering they're causing. Terrorism shouldn't be legitimized as a political strategy.

What utter nonsense, R19. Every single one of those countries have repeatedly condemned Hamas' attack and demanded the release of the hostages. Has the hasbara playbook not been updated to reflect that, you know, each of us has access to the internet?

Macron asked all the Arab countries at his summit to publicly state they will recognize a Palestinian state.

Not one agreed. Not Egypt or Jordan or Saudi Arabia.

The Arabs are now far more sensible than the Canadians the French and the British.

Idiot

After Oct. 7th, Palestinians proved they don't deserve a state. The conditions will never be met and Carney's nonsense statement willl only suceed in stirring the pot.

This is a Trudeau-level virtue signaling blunder.

How does Alberta feel about this?

This is all symbolic and meaningless. There will never be a Palestinian Arab state, ever. Nor has there ever been one.

Anyone who thinks this conflict is about land is not a serious person.

Israel is a genocidal country and must be repudiated.

Netanyahu should be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is a thief and barbarian.

Thank you, r25.

Some of you bitches would have opposed the liberation of Auschwitz.

Geocide is genocide.

Hello Hamas

Well Hello Hamas,

It's so nice to have you back where you belong

Hamas will never go away, Hamas will never go aWA AY, Hamas will never go away again!

One more time!

Bless you!

You know who DID oppose the liberation of Auschwitz, R26? PALESTINE.

It's almost as if posters like r28 are willfully obtuse

R29 Explain...

Pearls before swine, r30.

Again, R31, where is the lie in what I posted?

R29 Lithuania alone killed 2-3 times more Jews in three months than even the highest estimated Palestinian death count in the two years since the Gazan war began. You casually and even glibly put the industrialized murder of over six million Jews on the same level of atrocity as Gaza, and then accuse me of wilful obtuseness for not gleefully signing off on your definitional demonstration of Holocaust inversion?

[quote]glibly put the industrialized murder of over six million Jews on the same level of atrocity as Gaza

I'm not R29 but I have scrolled up and down this thread and read every post and I can't find anyone making this claim R33. Where is the post saying this?

R34, see R26

OK thanks for clarifying R35.

However, R26 is not making that claim R35. You state that R25 "casually and even glibly put the industrialized murder of over six million Jews on the same level of atrocity as Gaza". But that's not what R26 said and not even vaguely close to what R26 said.

*R25 was an error and should have been R26.

R36 Really? Then what would you say they were doing with that comment? Why use Auschwitz specifically as the comparison?

I really couldn't answer that R38 - you would have to ask R26 what he was doing with that comment.

To me - R26 isn't claiming that the systematic extermination of Jews by Nazis in WWII is comparable to what has happened in Gaza. That would be utterly preposterous. Equally preposterous as you claiming he said that when I'm pretty sure you know R26 didn't say anything of the sort.

We just have to get some proper facts and honesty into this discussion.

OMFG R38. Are you Nori's owner?

R39 "Holocaust inversion is a term used to describe the distortion and misuse of Holocaust terminology, imagery, and analogies. It involves falsely equating Israel with Nazi Germany and broader misapplications of Holocaust-related language that distort history and diminish the Holocaust's significance."

R40 Nori the dog? I wish!

You can't actually be serious R41! R26 isn't saying any of those things. Not even close. I'm a bit worried about you now because you're being incredibly disingenuous and dishonest.

Excellent to hear you aren't Nori's owner too. That would have ruined my day. I looked at your posting history and must have gotten confused by one of your quoted posts from the OP of the Nori thread.

I'm going to leave it there.

All those emaciated Palestinian refugees that arrived in Canada last week broke my heart!! Oh, the humanity!!! Canadians should be proud. I am certain all Canadians are looking forward to becoming Lebanon V.2 in no time.

R34 R36 R39 seems to think that writing in a pretentious manner hides his (or her) attempt at gaslighting.

Sadly America’s mob boss doesn't like the sound of this.

Dump will use this as grounds for war against Canada. That orange turd and his criminal friends plot national/International takeover 24/7.

Ireland and France did this already.

*Ireland and Spain, i meant, did this already. Proud to be Irish. We were also the first to vote for, and pass, marriage for gays.

"Death to Israel!

- "Palestinians" receiving food/aid from Israel after slaughtering 2,000 Israelis

Just curious R50, why do you guys always round up the amount of people killed on Oct 7th from 1200 to 2000? Do you not know how many people were killed? It’s a 65% increase it’s not like it makes any sort of mathematical sense. Because I’ve noticed the “2000” figure being used a lot, and it’s way off.

R49, you can kiss Ireland goodbye.

Israelis stole Palestine from them, forced them from their homes, and terrorized them for decades before Oct. 7th.

Sweden recognized a state of Palestine years ago...and? This is virtue signalling to appease their anti Israel political base.

The two state solution is dead. Hamas killed it.

They always out themselves with "virtue-signaling."

This isn't Truth Social, hon.

What about Gaza? Should that be recognized as its own independent state?

Fuck, R53, learn some basic history. You're embarrassing yourself.

Hamasistan

Hamash.

With all the Israeli settlements and the final word on The West Bank still being Israel’s this just sounds foolish and accomplishes nothing.

R57 Seriously, he's not even worth correcting. Next up on his list of prompts is that all the Jews should just go back to Poland.

What are the borders of this state? Where is the capital? Who is head of state?

Does this mean they will be accepting Palestinian refugees