My suspicion is that diplomatic support for Israel is a price that Joe Biden is demanding in return for diplomatic support in our own standoff with India.
Prior to Stephen Harper, Canada’s UN voting record wrt to Israel-Palestine was a lot less weighted in Israel’s favour, and even since then the current Liberal government has been willing to break with the US over significantly less violence on Israel’s part than today.
Canada’s economy is being held up by a wicker basket and it would take a very tiny shift in US policy to make big problems for us. Canada is a machine for pumping oil, metals, electricity, and cars across the border.
We’ve bucked American foreign policy interests in the past. Vietnam, Iraq, UN votes relating to Palestine previous to Stephen Harper plus the one I mentioned in my last comment. Yes we are sensitive to US actions but we aren’t total doormats if we have leadership inclined in that direction.
My suspicion is that diplomatic support for Israel is a price that Joe Biden is demanding in return for diplomatic support in our own standoff with India.
Prior to Stephen Harper, Canada’s UN voting record wrt to Israel-Palestine was a lot less weighted in Israel’s favour, and even since then the current Liberal government has been willing to break with the US over significantly less violence on Israel’s part than today.
So what’s different now?
Canada’s economy is being held up by a wicker basket and it would take a very tiny shift in US policy to make big problems for us. Canada is a machine for pumping oil, metals, electricity, and cars across the border.
We’ve bucked American foreign policy interests in the past. Vietnam, Iraq, UN votes relating to Palestine previous to Stephen Harper plus the one I mentioned in my last comment. Yes we are sensitive to US actions but we aren’t total doormats if we have leadership inclined in that direction.