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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that his country plans to recognise the State of Palestine at the United Nations.
In a Friday post on X, Carney stated: “Canada supports a two-state solution which guarantees peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians.” He added that Ottawa “will work intensively in all fora to further that end, including through the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the UN High-Level Conference on a Two-State Solution in New York next week.
The Prime Minister also said that Canada condemns the Israeli government’s failure to prevent the rapid deterioration of the humanitarian adisaster in the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron declared his intention to recognise the State of Palestine in September 2025.
In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned the move, saying that the establishment of a Palestinian state would pose a threat to Israel’s security.
Meanwhile, the Hamas movement welcomed Macron’s intention to recognise Palestine during the UN General Assembly in September.
Hamas described the move as a positive step in the right direction towards justice for the oppressed Palestinian people and support for their legitimate right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on all of its occupied territory, with Jerusalem as its capital.
…who are the semitic people, becaue aside from faith, they seem the same…aside from chosen beliefs they seem the same…aside from the clique, they are the same…
…who are the ant-semites?.. history will tell
…anti-semitic means many things…
…anti-semites think that jewis folks are isolated…
…i seem to remember reading reports of aid being ‘delayed’ in the early parts of this genocide…
…what is a semite?
are the palestinian people semites? are the israeli transplants from the expulsion of other regions semites? are we choosing a random affiliation to hate someone? no one is marginalised…what the actual fuck?..
-jesus probably
Hmm… I’m not actually seeing anything here that indicates an immediate plan to recognize Palestine as a state. Canada has been a supporter of a two state solution for a long time, but that’s only a commitment to working towards Palestine becoming a state, it doesn’t immediately imply that they’ll follow in France’s steps and immediately recognize Palestine as a state. The article offers no further evidence for the claim.
You’re absolutely correct. Canada is not pursuing Palestinian statehood recognition. This statement was the second strongly worded statement against Israel that doesn’t contain any specific actions or steps.
But oh boy, wait until warning #3 comes out! I hear it will be even more strongly worded and still have absolutely zero concrete plans or consequences!
Al Jazeera is reporting that Macron asked the UK and Canada to join France in recognising Palestinian statehood but neither were willing.
Obviously I very much hope that we do, but I agree, the above tweet does not indicate that we’re about to do so.
https://aje.io/f4w0aa?update=3858483
Edit: found the original Reuters report https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/frustration-gaza-alarm-drove-macron-go-it-alone-palestine-recognition-2025-07-26/
If they really believed in a two state solution, they would reconize it decades before the genocide. If they really believe in it . They would have stop any military relation with israel way before thr genocide. They would impose as strong sanctions as russia and iran in state level and not just few settlers that are financed by israel government
We just didn’t want to look lame compared to France
“Ottawa “will work intensively in all fora to further that end, including through the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the UN High-Level Conference on a Two-State Solution in New York next week”
Yes, I read that part. You clearly didn’t. Nothing in there is an immediate commitment to recognize Palestine as a state. At best “work towards a two state solution” means “someday maybe Palestine might get to become a state if we’re all feeling really generous.”
The recognition vote in the UN is upcoming. How are they supposed to make their stance before the conference.
Well, words would be the usual method. Like, you know, spoken, or written, either is good. That’s the usual method of conveying your stance on something. Not really sure what other answer you would be expecting there.
Uhhhh… Like in a tweet?
What was your exit strategy from this reply?
Because if I said “Yes” then your next step is to quote the part of the tweet that you think backs up your assertion. Only, you already did that. And I already pointed out that it doesn’t say what you think it says. So in what possible way did you imagine that this line of argument was going to end up with you looking good?
“Canada supports a two state solution”
Name the two states, go on. Say it.
There’s a meeting happening next week that Canada has pledged to support Palestine as a state. We’ll see next week what comes of it.
I genuinely hope you’re right!
Israel failed to prevent the humanitarian disasters that Israel started.
Israel should never have been allowed to exist. Their presence only ever causes pain.
Europe decided Jews weren’t safe in Europe so gave up some of their colonial land in order to create a settler ethnostate in the most religiously significant region in the world.
Questioning this is illegal
Amen brother
They also have a video / audio of US military contractors firing on Palestinian people after they have retrieved food to “disperse” the crowd. And one american shouted “you got one”. The video is taken behind a hill so you don’t see the commotion. The video was leaked by a merc that had a sense of conscience.
And Israel, to disperse hungry Palestinians entering the aid area before it was actually open, were fired on by an Israeli Tank. Firing a tank shell into a crowd is not crowd dispersion, its just murder.
Technically they dispersed people in all directions.
Dispersing pieces of people doesn’t count.
Israel created a famine intentionally
There’s a lot of comments in this thread, with a LOT of up votes, claiming this is a nothing burger and isn’t actually a change in Canadian foreign policy. I understand being annoyed at slow progress that should’ve happened long ago but claiming this is actually bad for Palestine is disingenuous.
Canada has never recognised a Palestinian government other than the Palestinian Authority (PA) which is an Israeli organisation set up to represent Palestine on behalf of Israel. Here they are clearly starting they have intention to do so which most likely will be the State of Palestine which is a Palestinian organisation that currently receives the most recognition in the United nations general Assembly.
Here they have declared their intent:
“Canada supports a two-state solution”
Here they have declared their current plans regarding recognition:
“Ottawa “will work intensively in all fora to further that end, including through the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the UN High-Level Conference on a Two-State Solution in New York next week.”
Here Isreal have denounced the move by Canada:
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned the move,”
Here Hamas has declared support for similar plans for recognition that France has made:
“Hamas described the move as a positive step in the right direction towards justice for the oppressed Palestinian people”
If I were a paranoid person I’d say that the comments declaring Canada’s plan to recognise Palestine are futile and meaningless are pro Israeli propaganda planted to look like a pro Palestinian stance. And when it comes to discussions about Israel online, I am very paranoid.
I think the issue people are having is that this tweet from the PM does not appear to represent any kind of change in policy.
In fact just yesterday, Reuters reported that Canada and the UK were asked by Macron to join France in recognising Palestinian statehood but refused: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/frustration-gaza-alarm-drove-macron-go-it-alone-palestine-recognition-2025-07-26/
Okay, so there’s an upcoming conference at the UN about officially recognising the state of Palestine that has been proposed by France. Yes France was unable to get the UK and Canada to cosponsor the proposal but that is not the same as rejecting it. We will only know the official stance after the conference. However, this tweet by the Canadian government is referring to this proposal by France. In the tweet he stated that “Canada supports a two state solution” and that “Ottawa “will work intensively in all fora to further that end, including through the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the UN High-Level Conference on a Two-State Solution in New York next week.” Together it seems likely that Canada is intent on supporting the proposal, again we will only know after the conference.
If so, great! I remain skeptical given our PM’s recent use of phrases like “Zionist Palestine”, an inability to use the word ‘genocide’ to describe the ongoing genocide, and the lack of any meaningful action thus far.
Even the sanctions placed on two Israeli politicians in June don’t have real teeth; a previous update (Feb 2025) to Canada’s sanctions rules actually allows the foreign affairs minister to issue permits overriding restrictions. https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/sanctions/esv-vec.aspx?lang=eng
As I said in my other reply though, I genuinely hope you’re right - but I don’t see it as a foregone conclusion yet. Important to keep the pressure on our MPs.
I managed to get the office manager at my local constituency office on the phone on Friday, and was assured that I’ll get a call back from my MP tomorrow. If I do, I’ll ask directly what the plan is, and push for this to happen!
I can just barely understand avoiding the term genocide but what Israel is doing and proposing to do further is textbook ethnic cleansing and is equally egregious. We can’t even officially call it ethnic cleansing. There’s zero ambiguity on that definition.
YES! FUCKING FINALLY!
GOD DAMN IT’S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!
He had to ruin a forceful message to Israel by adding the “aLL SiDeS”
Yeah I was on board and then I got to that and, of fucking course, he’s a coward.
Where do you see that in the tweet?
Third paragraph, first sentence.
Ah got it. Thanks.
How brave of them to make a statement, with no plans, goals, or commitments, after the entire region has already been flattened and its people murdered or starved.
This is leadership? Fuck that.
“Ottawa “will work intensively in all fora to further that end, including through the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the UN High-Level Conference on a Two-State Solution in New York next week”
Well, at least next week isn’t fucking September. A couple of weeks ago a 7-month-old baby girl named Salam died of starvation. I have never seen a human being so thin and it was a goddamn baby.
To be clear, I don’t expect real action on this from Carney. I think it’s disgusting how world leaders have left Palestine to starve and rot. It will get worse.
Until we literally take to the streets this is what we will have. Our government doesn’t represent us. Why do we prop it up?
Good move from Canada here.
I am sorry, but nowhere does he say that.
The “we want a two state solution, but wont recognize a palestinian state until Israel agrees to it” has been the modus operandi of many Genocide supporting countries. They know Israel wont ever agree to it while they reject putting actual pressure on the Zionist project.
“Canada supports a two state solution”
