while trump may actually be stricter on netanyahu than biden, it won't be because he's pro-arab or pro-muslim, it will be for his own considerations. israel is an asset if it's kept in line, but it's a liability when it's not.

trump's iran policy will also be stricter and it needs to be stricter but it's not because he's pro-israel it's because iran has demonstrated itself as a dangerous actor in need of regime change.

anybody that voted for donald trump expecting him to be pro-arab or pro-muslim should be laughed at for being stupid, but my perception is that this is a figment of the arab lobby's imagination and that while you may find some isolated anecdotes you couldn't isolate a statistically defined sample.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769

somebody that is concerned about rights issues in the west bank should be arguing that palestinians need civil rights inside of the israeli state, not holding to the 20th century delusion that the west bank is ever going to be a sovereign state.

this is a false narrative that is out of touch with reality and created by people that haven't kept up with events for the last 30 years.

it's already done.

the west bank is already annexed.

writing it down on paper and declaring it law is a meaningless and overdue formality, but actually doing it would be helpful so we can move on and leave the issue behind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/us/politics/israel-trump-administration.html

besides oil and oil derivatives, which together make up something like 40% of our export gdp to the united states, our biggest exports to the united states are marijuana and hockey players.

and they tax our lumber. illegally. and won't stop.

canada used to have a top 5 global economy. today, we keep going to these g7 meetings, but we barely qualify for the g20 and we're probably going to fall out of it in the next 5-10 years.

canada has become an attractive destination for foreign capital and wealthy foreigners, like a mediterranean resort city-state, but we are the largest country in the world, geographically, and our actual real economy has completely collapsed. we're on the brink of becoming a failed state.

we're going to have to walk into these trade negotiations with a reduced sense of pride and a newfound respect for the facts, which are not in our favour.

the elder trudeau warned us that nafta would hollow the country out, and standing here 40 years later, it's clear he was right. we have no industry of any sort, except raw exports. even our cultural industry, which did well into the mid 00s, has entirely disappeared.

economically speaking, we've retreated back to becoming a colony of europe and the united states, while we're increasingly being colonized by the middle east.

canada is actually going to have to come to terms with the fact that mexico is an actual trading partner with the united states and has a two-way flow of goods, while canada's trade relationship with the united states has been little more than food-for-oil since the 1980s, when we signed the canada-us free trade deal.

that makes mexico a partner of the united states and canada more akin to a colony.