The wealthy Arab countries won't help them which is suspicious to me. They must be fucked up.
They do to a degree; but its geopolitics that stops more substantial aid. They dont like the palis, but don't want them wiped out either I guess.
If you want a specific reference, its the fact that they have given them hella food aid (its stopped at the border, however), but won't embargo Israel.
So its a mixed bag overall due to geopolitics.
I think the threads going to be full of comments like this, and Id interject and assume that this basically comes with the added- we shouldn't be involved in either side, funding Israel or Palestine, and this is where people's interest mostly lies, in that our tax money is going to this debackle, when it shouldn't really.
I'm not an isolationist, and my argument is that what happens in the world does have reverberating effects on the US and our own economy and security situation;
but vice versa, I'm heavily against dumb wars like the Iraq war, and while I see the need to be involved in geopolitical struggles to ensure our economic or security interests are still met-
I don't see the war between Israel and Gaza at this point in aiding in that in any way whatsoever, and the continuation of the war, much like Iraq which never had an exit plan (gaza and iraq rhyme poetically here), theres no exit plan for gaza and we're just funding the next generation of terrorists.
Want to embargo Iran? Well, it helps the Saudis and gulf states, who are marginally our allies? Keeps the price of oil lower, maybe it prevents a broader anti-american coalition from forming in the middle east; but if you're going to go that route, do it the smart way.
There are marches in the streets almost weekly about this here in Canada.
If you're in Toronto, this is because everyone is brown in Canada now. Brown people care about brown people and want you to based on ethnic ties, but its a weak argument imo.
My argument for why we should care about Palestine stems from two things:
A) Blowback is a bitch, and at this point, we
at least shouldnt be funding what has turned into a genocide (may not have been one initially at the start, but it certainly has become one whether through design or accident)
and
B) Past a hands off approach, should we be doing anything else with regards to Israel? Its a cop out, but I do think that where and when we can, we should try to stand on the side of historic justice. Call it national karma, but it helps me sleep a bit better knowing that we did what we could to help people who were suffering, when
we had the ability and the finances, if we could.
Now should Canada be doing this?
See
when we had the ability
Canadians are literally eating out of food banks, homelessness is rampant, people cant afford to live in this country anymore, crime is up, the Canadian dollar is wrecked. Recognizing Palestine also antagonizes Trump, further adding to our problems in negotiating a trade deal (seriously, this is getting more and more fucked up).
The people in the street screaming about and protesting for Palestine, were doing so the day after October 7th. They have a poor moral compass. Yeah, Israel is bad now, but these people tend to be ethnicists and dumb anyways. Theyre the kind of people who, when Canada decides to give 12 billion dollars of aid to Palestine, will cheer this on. They place their own moral pet project issues over the good of the nation, because its all they have to do with their spare time.
So to answer your question. Should we care about Palestine?
Sort of. I'm not pro-hamas. I'm not delusional enough to blame
just hamas for this mess, as even if hamas wasn't in power- 90% of Palestines would cheer on some other genocidal group to kill Israelis.
Thats not enough to condemn children to death over collective starvation in my books to get back like what, 10 hostages?
So should we care about whats happening in Palestine? To a degree, but its not because of morons protesting, and maybe, right now, we should focus on our own problems first before promising another billion dollars of aid when so many of our own people are desperate.
