Juno News - Alexander Brown and guest Greg Brady discuss Canada's recent recognition of a Palestinian state

Alex Blumberg joins me to talk about Canada's recognition of a Palestinian state, why it's not good enough, and why we should all be pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. We also talk about why a two-state solution isn't a good idea.

00:00:00.000 so much of what folks like me do now is when we notice the nonsense we we almost think of those

00:00:06.960 covet years we go like i know that you're you're gaslighting us a little bit and one thing that i

00:00:11.120 can think of right now that connects to that is you just went into this on your show the orchestrated

00:00:17.120 sunday news dump of canada's acknowledgement of the state of palestine and an authority that

00:00:23.600 hasn't held a democratic election in almost 20 years i have great sympathy for the humanitarian

00:00:30.080 toll but surely though this is emboldening hostage takers the weekly protests in our

00:00:35.920 canadian streets the threats to our jewish communities is it not yeah i was drop dead

00:00:43.920 shocked by it i think we all had anticipated a uh early week united nations uh general assembly

00:00:50.080 session where the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, gets up and says, as I announced in the summer,

00:00:56.380 with these conditions, with consultation with members of cabinet, foreign affairs minister,

00:01:02.800 you name it, this is what we would declare were we to see, again, back to conditions,

00:01:10.680 A, B, C, and D. Hamas must not be involved in any elections going forward. The Palestinian 0.93

00:01:16.580 authority has to enact some kind of authority over Hamas. They've done anything but for the 1.00

00:01:23.380 longest time. Then you get into a scenario where you say, not only should the hostages be returned,

00:01:28.840 there's a lot of other subtle things that we'd all like to see get worked out. But when I hear

00:01:34.560 people talk about, Alex, a two-state solution right now, I just don't think they've thought

00:01:39.540 it through. And it's very clear to me. They've never taken a university course on this. They

00:01:44.260 haven't read a lot of books they haven't watched a lot of really nuanced documentaries and and

00:01:49.040 similar to what we were talking about even with the pandemic this is not a binary issue here and

00:01:54.580 it's maddening it gets presented as that um it's it's sort of like when you're seven and you're

00:02:00.640 like um you know your favorite hockey player is this and it just can't be anybody else and you

00:02:06.500 have to pick one of the two either you like this player or hate that player like this band or hate

00:02:10.820 that bent. And there is simply no room in the vocabulary for, well, are you pro-Palestinian or

00:02:16.800 not? Are you pro-Israel or are you not? Because there's so many layers to it. I've spoken in the

00:02:22.820 last 36 hours. I get why MPs right now don't want to go on the record from the Liberal Party. And

00:02:28.400 I actually have empathy because I think two things. One, many of them were blindsided by

00:02:33.140 Carney doing this over the weekend and in essence saying, I hereby declare, should say, Canada

00:02:39.260 declares the recognition of a state of Palestine. None of them had none of the ones I talked to

00:02:45.940 anyway of the three said I had an inkling this might happen or we kind of got warned this might

00:02:51.580 happen on the previous Friday and they would have.

Juno News - September 23, 2025

Alexander Brown and guest Greg Brady discuss Canada's recent recognition of a Palestinian state

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