President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that Canada’s promise to recognise a ‘Palestinian state’ would hurt its prospect of a trade deal with the United States.
President Trump responded on Truth Social by writing: “Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!”
President Trump’s response came after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, on Wednesday, announced his government’s plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September. “Canada said on Wednesday that it would recognize Palestine as a state, if the Palestinian Authority commits to making certain changes including holding elections,” The New York Times reported.
Canada’s decision follows similar moves by France and the United Kingdom. Nearly 22 months after Hamas invaded Israel — massacring over 1200 men, women, and children, and kidnapping 250 others — some of the leading Western governments are lining up to reward these murderous acts.
President Trump is set to impose a 35 percent tariff on all Canadian imports, which are not covered under the existing U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, unless a deal is reached ahead of his August 1 deadline.
Reuters reported the U.S. president’s remarks:
U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be “very hard” to make a deal with Canada after it gave its support to Palestinian statehood. (…)”Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them,” Trump said on Truth Social.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney previously said tariff negotiations with Washington had been constructive, but the talks may not conclude by the deadline. Talks between the two countries were at an intense phase, he added, but a deal that would remove all U.S. tariffs was unlikely. (…)Carney followed France and Britain as he said on Wednesday that his country was planning to recognize the State of Palestine at a meeting of the United Nations in September. (…)”Canada condemns the fact that the Israeli government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in Gaza,” he said.
Israel slammed the Canadian government for rewarding Hamas, a terrorist group that refuses to even negotiate the release of hostages languishing in its captivity since October 7, 2023.
“Israel rejects the statement by the Prime Minister of Canada,” the country’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. “The change in the position of the Canadian government at this time is a reward for Hamas and harms the efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and a framework for the release of the hostages.”
The Times of Israel reported further:
Iddo Moed, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, said Israel “will not bow to the distorted campaign of international pressure against it.”“We will not sacrifice our very existence by permitting the imposition of a jihadist state on our ancestral homeland that seeks our annihilation,” he said in a statement.”Recognizing a Palestinian state in the absence of accountable government, functioning institutions, or benevolent leadership, rewards and legitimizes the monstrous barbarity of Hamas,” Moed continued. “It punishes Israeli and Palestinian victims of Hamas, vindicates Hamas.”
The terrorist group Hamas, which wants to destroy Israel and replace it with an Islamic state, cheered the decision by the UK and other Western countries to move towards the recognition of a Palestinian state. These countries were “moving in the right direction,” the genocidal terrorist group said.
The UK daily Telegraph reported on Thursday:
A senior Hamas official has welcomed Sir Keir Starmer’s promise to recognise Palestine, saying that “victory and liberation are closer than we expected”.Basem Naim, a former minister in the terror group’s government of Gaza, said: “International support for Palestinian self-determination shows we are moving in the right direction.”
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