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Originally Posted by Monahammer
How can we as Canadians have any impact on what Israel and Hamas are doing? We can't, there's no possible way. Protesting and making stands to this degree is foolish and displays an incredible level of naivety (or alternately a startlingly grotesque picture of narcissism and belief of control over world conditions.)
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Agreed about how useless and naive ultimately, protesting is. It's popular when the government is supporting something that the population does not, in hopes that they can change the government's mind. How much it actually has an impact on the government though is debatable. If Canada wasn't firmly against Russia when they invaded, I bet people would not think that protesting is foolish and those protests would be massive in comparison. In this case, there's a large segment of the population that is upset with Canada's and the US's position and actions in this Israel campaign in Palestine for the last 5 months and they're hoping they can compel their governments to stop their support of Israel, which is never going to happen.