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Canada Prompts Trump Trade Threat on Recognizing Palestine

Author: Thomas Seal Source: Bloomberg
July 31, 2025 at 06:52
Canada Prompts Trump Trade Threat on Recognizing Palestine
 
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada plans to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations summit in September, following France and clashing with the US and Israel.

Carney said Canada’s long-favored approach of a two-state solution through a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority was “no longer tenable.” He said that process had been “gravely eroded” by Hamas terrorism and its rejection of Israel’s right to exist, as well as recent Israeli actions such as accelerated settlement building and a Knesset vote calling for the annexation of the West Bank.

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