In order to forestall yet more disastrous military actions by Israel in Gaza, Canada must impose real consequences by suspending all transfers of military goods and officially recognizing the state of Palestine.
The ICJ has delivered a powerful ruling ordering Israel to ‘take all measures within its power’ to protect Palestinians in Gaza. Canada must urge Israel to comply.
Canada must act in accordance with its professed strong support for international law and the International Court of Justice by calling on Israel to fully comply with the ICJ rulings.
We briefly update the grim military picture in Ukraine and then focus on the unimaginable suffering in Gaza, and our demand for Canada to commit to an immediate ceasefire, full humanitarian access to Gaza and the urgent release of hostages.
Against the backdrop of terrible climate calamities, we examine a big win for the UN and multilateralism in protecting our oceans. We also look at how Canada can help save the agency responsible for Palestinian refugees. Finally our new Ukraine Update examines old and new paths to war termination.
Modest but important steps in the direction of diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine; strengthening the nuclear testing taboo, and disturbing new reasons why Canada should end its arms exports to Saudi Arabia are some of our topics in today’s blog post.