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Trudeau silent while Liberal caucus remains split over ICJ ruling on Israel-Hamas war (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by grte to c/canadapolitics

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[–] Rentlar 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The court ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention and also ensure that its troops do not commit any genocidal acts in Gaza. Israel must also report to the court within a month on what it's doing to uphold the order.

I'll be patient for a bit (maybe a week) for Trudeau's team to make up their mind on things, but since they made a statement that they support the ICJ, they need to take a strong stance against Israel upon any new reports of harm towards civilians, famine caused by aid being blocked, settler raids, journalist killings and detentions, killing within camps of displaced people, killing doctors and educators.

It's time to stop licking American boot, but if the Liberals are not going to do that then I ask Trudeau and his foreign affairs team to lick it confidently and shamelessly rather than quietly.

[–] LostWon 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Western countries are currently withholding funding to UNRWA (which provides aid to Gaza, where 80% of the hungriest people in the world are right now) because some of its staff are accused by an unnamed party of helping Hamas. The tiny number of Palestinian refugees allowed into Canada as compared to Ukrainian refugees, and the bizarre and life-threatening requirements (such as submitting all their social media usernames to the IDF for unknown reasons) worry me.

We should have grave concerns about where things are going right now, considering how quick our governments have been to cut off funds for victims of a genocide while being so slow to cut off military and other aid to the perpetrator targeting them.