In 2024, the United States spent $22 billion on funding the Israeli genocide and war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. Not to be left out, Canada spends $1.2 billion annually on Israeli war technology, such as the AI software used by Israel to target Palestinian civilians while sleeping in their beds. The Canadian government has also supplied arms to Israel throughout this genocide, with the cost of these arms not included in the $1.2 billion figure.
This $1.2 billion was funneled to Israel through Canada’s spy agency, more commonly known as CSIS, covered under the Five Eyes initiative, in which Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) is the agency’s official participating branch. The Five Eyes is a multinational intelligence alliance between the five English-speaking agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Note that Israel is not an English-speaking entity nor a part of the alliance, but it was given observer status by these allies. CSEC has managed to swindle Canadians through some loophole and syphon their money for the benefit of a foreign observer entity. These contributions by Canada to the Israeli genocide machine are no secret as Canada often brags about its role in furthering the Israeli occupation on Palestinian land.
It is hard for the average citizen to quantify a number as large as $1.2 billion. While the majority of Canadians are complaining about the soaring prices of groceries and mortgage payments, these expenses are measured by the hundreds or the thousands of dollars. So, how do we measure the large amounts of monies Canada and the US spend on Israel?
Canada’s $1.2 billion works out to be over $3 million per day (actual amount: CAD $3,370,786.52). If you were in the US, the number is about 20 times larger; it is over $60 million per day (actual amount: USD $60,273,972.60). I live in Canada, and I hear Canadian complaints about the weak Canadian economy, the weak Canadian dollar, the housing crisis, and somewhere at the very end of Canadians concerns there is also the age-old problem of clean drinking water for Indigenous people of the land. $1.2 billion would likely fund the construction of more than one water treatment plant, and over the course of a few years Canada could provide the remaining Indigenous population with clean drinking water. Clearly that’s not as important to the government of Canada. Despite the massive propaganda campaign of reconciliation, Canada has yet to reconcile with its colonial past.
Housing is a problem out of control in Canada and many Canadians are struggling because of skyrocketing rent prices. Considering the average one-bedroom apartment rent is hovering around $2000 a month, these funds could have been used to house 50,000 individuals by paying their full year of rent. If the Canadian government was generous with its citizens, it could offer to gift houses to struggling Canadian families and turn them into homeowners; a step that has the potential of securing their financial needs for generations to come. With the average starter-home cost around $350,000, Canada could buy 2400 homes for Canadian families every year. While it is less that one percent of the total house sales in Canada, it represents a larger percentage of first-time homeowners and the cumulative annual numbers would help stabilize a real-estate market out of control. Yet instead of housing its citizens, the Canadian government continues to use your hard earned taxes to participate in an illegal occupation and a genocide.
In the next Canadian election, the conservatives are set to win as Trudeau’s popularity is at an all time low. The situation is not going to improve as the incoming candidate is most likely to be Pierre Poilievre, whose enthusiasm for the illegal occupation of Palestine cannot be hidden, and he will waste more of Canadian tax dollars in Israel. Cleary for the two big political parties in Canada, it is Israel first, US second, and Canada somewhere last.
The story is worse in the US. The outgoing Biden administration’s policy of Israel first backfired and cost the Democratic Party dearly in the 2024 elections. Not that the incoming Trump administration is going to be any less Zionist. If anything, Trump has shown time and again that he will do whatever his Israeli master lords tell him to do. No one can forget how he illegally moved the American embassy to the occupied Palestinian city Al Quds, known in the west as Jerusalem.
If either of these countries spent the money going to Israel on their own infrastructure, by dividing it equally to all provinces in Canada or states in the US, each province would benefit from $92 million in infrastructure upgrades annually, while American states would have each received a whopping $440 million dollars in upgrades in 2024.
Clearly, for Canada at least, the pro-Zionist government and spy agencies are adopting an Israel-first-Canada-last policy. It is time for Canadians to get back on the right side of history. It is time to reject the evils of Zionism.
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