"It's ethical to fund israeli military as long as I donate for fixing a small amount of the damages they cause, right?"
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And, btw this is only part of some international spending by Canada that I'm not sure people were asked about or agreed to.
So are you arguing that Canada should not fight the symptoms as long as they also can't solve the cause?
as they also canβt solve the cause
No I'm saying they can fight the cause but they don't.
Ok, we'll just send troops to Israel? Or is that just more imperialism that people like you cry about?
Boycott Israel maybe
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.
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
I'd settle for not aiding the cause.
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.
You've gone really deep into the politics of hate if you want the people you claim to support to continue suffering so they'll useful tools to be used against the people you hate.
It is good to help Palestinians, and I hope they can rebuild. But apparently the "pro-Palestinian" crowd doesn't want that.