Surprisingly, despite being in the south, most people seem to support Palestine. Except for this one trump supporting guy who screams that Israel is the “only democracy” in the middle east and how the Muslims are “terrorists” It’s kind of funny because just a couple days ago, he was screeching “America First! America First! Stop giving aid to Ukraine. Take care of our own!” (Not a bad thing) but apparently, Israel doesn’t count and we “need to send them more money.”
I guess Canada has enough Muslims and minorities who identify with Palestine that our state media has to both-sides the situation enough that people feel sympathetic for Palestinians.
All the parties have the same conclusions on Ukraine though, because of Ukrainian diaspora we let in after WW2, seems we’re more unified on that than the US; being pro-peace instead of sending more weapons is way more taboo here.
On Israel, realistically Canada has 0 say on the situation, this is one of the many things where we just defer to US foreign policy. The two parties that can realistically be elected are very pro-israel, the third socdem party’s representatives are pretty cucked into being pro-israel too (even if the members tend to be more pro-palestine than the others).
But our prime minister paid lip service to providing humanitarian aid on both sides (whatever that’ll look like with Israel’s siege, and calling Hamas terrorists), and said Israel has the right to defend itself within the bounds of international law (a caveat America would never put on that statement).
One of my coworkers came up to me and said “damn, I can’t believe they have that many people living in that small an area without much water or infrastructure”, even though I avoid talking about politics at work (other than pro-union stuff).