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March 27, 2024

Canada’s Shameful Embargo on Israel

The good news: Canada will keep spending billions on Israeli arms.

Last week, the Canadian foreign minister announced that her country would halt all arms sales Israel, following a parliamentary resolution to that effect. The decision is primarily symbolic, since Canada imports far more in military equipment (including Iron Dome radar batteries, missiles, and naval craft) from Israel than it exports, and has no plans to stop. Yet Israeli diplomats fear it might pave the way for other countries to follow suit. The editors of the Jerusalem Post comment:

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