{"id":11866,"date":"2025-07-31T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-canadas-palestinian-move-is-new-trade-deal-stumbling-block\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:02:22","slug":"trump-says-canadas-palestinian-move-is-new-trade-deal-stumbling-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-canadas-palestinian-move-is-new-trade-deal-stumbling-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Canada\u2019s Palestinian move is new trade deal stumbling block"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. President Donald Trump once again threatened to suspend trade talks with Canada, this time over Ottawa\u2019s promise to recognize Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that his country intends to recognize a Palestinian state<\/a> ahead of September\u2019s United Nations General Assembly, joining France<\/a> and the U.K.<\/a> on that path.<\/p>\n

But Trump, despite acknowledging there is \u201creal starvation\u201d in Gaza<\/a> on Monday, remains a staunch Israel ally. He argued earlier this week that recognizing Palestinian statehood would reward Hamas<\/a>, the militant group behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow! 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\u2019 Canada!!!\u201d the president wrote on Truth Social<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

With a Friday deadline looming to strike a deal or face steep U.S. tariffs, negotiations between Canada and the U.S. have stalled, and no deal framework has been set.<\/p>\n

Blue Light News reported this week that U.S. officials have been recycling grievances<\/a> at trade talks without offering a path forward, according to Canadian officials. In June, the White House pushed Canada into rescinding its planned digital services tax<\/a> to unfreeze the talks.<\/p>\n

Israel has been losing its international support over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which is \u201con the brink of famine,\u201d U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hamas-led militants killed more than 1,000 people and abducted 251 in their Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war. Israel\u2019s retaliatory offensive against Hamas has killed around 60,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n

Canada, as well as France and the U.K., cited the suffering of civilians in Gaza as one of the reasons for recognizing Palestinian statehood now. All three countries also argued that Hamas must disarm and can play no role in any Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

Since Trump returned to office, he has frequently trolled Ottawa<\/a> by calling Canada the 51st state, threatening to annex it and referring to the former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as \u201cGovernor Trudeau.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump once again threatened to suspend trade talks with Canada, this time over Ottawa\u2019s promise to recognize Palestinian statehood. On Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that his country intends to recognize a Palestinian state ahead of September\u2019s United Nations General Assembly, joining France and the U.K. on that path. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}