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13 Jun

Canada's sanctions on Israeli MKs a 'powerful symbol' but with 'limited impact'

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The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner
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JL;DR SUMMARY Canada's recent sanctions on two far-right Israeli politicians, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, serve as a symbolic gesture expressing discontent with Israel's settlement expansions and treatment of Palestinians, although experts say the immediate impact will be limited. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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West Bank  Israeli Politics  Foreign Policy  Canada  Settler Violence  Diplomacy  International Relations  Sanctions  Ben Gvir  Smotrich 

Places mentioned

Canada
"Canada, together with the UK, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, slapped personal, economic, and travel sanctions on two of Israel's most controversial, high-profile cabinet ministers."
Israel
"Canada, together with the UK, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, slapped personal, economic, and travel sanctions on two of Israel's most controversial, high-profile cabinet ministers."
United Kingdom
"Canada, together with the UK, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, slapped personal, economic, and travel sanctions on two of Israel's most controversial, high-profile cabinet ministers."
Norway
"Canada, together with the UK, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, slapped personal, economic, and travel sanctions on two of Israel's most controversial, high-profile cabinet ministers."
Australia
"Canada, together with the UK, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, slapped personal, economic, and travel sanctions on two of Israel's most controversial, high-profile cabinet ministers."
New Zealand
"Canada, together with the UK, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, slapped personal, economic, and travel sanctions on two of Israel's most controversial, high-profile cabinet ministers."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Israelis, quote, extremist, unquote, settlers on the West Bank."
United States
"now they had to, you know, draft the wording and get the law organized in order, and again, agreed with all the other nations of the timing,"
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"end of May, Canadian police did charge for the first time a Russian national who lives in Toronto for supplying parts for military drones to Russia to be used against Ukraine."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz comes an unprecedented exhibition about one of history's darkest moments."
Russian Federation
"different legal methods to crack down on bad actors from other countries and terrorist groups and rogue governments too, like Iran and Russia and Sudan and North Korea and Lebanon, for example."
Iran
"different legal methods to crack down on bad actors from other countries and terrorist groups and rogue governments too, like Iran and Russia and Sudan and North Korea and Lebanon, for example."
Sudan
"different legal methods to crack down on bad actors from other countries and terrorist groups and rogue governments too, like Iran and Russia and Sudan and North Korea and Lebanon, for example."
North Korea
"different legal methods to crack down on bad actors from other countries and terrorist groups and rogue governments too, like Iran and Russia and Sudan and North Korea and Lebanon, for example."
Lebanon
"different legal methods to crack down on bad actors from other countries and terrorist groups and rogue governments too, like Iran and Russia and Sudan and North Korea and Lebanon, for example."
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