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President Donald Trump has just made clear that there will be consequences for those countries that now propose to recognize a “Palestinian” state. He has said that it will be difficult to make a deal on reducing tariffs on Canadian goods after Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada would at the UN General Assembly meeting in September announce its support for a “Palestinian” state.
More on Trump’s linking of tariffs to how a country supports, or fails to, the embattled Jewish state now fighting for its life, can be found here: “Trump Escalates Trade War With Canada Following Move to Recognize Palestinian State,” Algemeiner, July 31, 2025:
US President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be “very hard” to make a deal with Canada after it gave its support to Palestinian statehood.
Trump is set to impose a 35 percent tariff on all Canadian goods not covered by the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement if the two countries do not reach an agreement by the deadline.
“Wow! 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,” Trump said on Truth Social….
Carney followed France and Britain as he said on Wednesday that his country was planning to recognize a Palestinian state at a meeting of the United Nations in September.
In announcing the decision, Carney spoke of the reality on the ground, including starvation in Gaza.
Carney has accepted the Hamas-supplied figures on casualties in Gaza, that make it seem the majority of those who have been killed were women and children, when the actual number is less than 30%. O the 60,000 dead in Gaza to date, 25,000 have been Hamas fighters. Of the remaining 35,000 deaths, 17,600 were the result of accidents and disease (calculated using the prewar level of 800 deaths in Gaza each month from such causes, multiplied by twenty-two months); the remaining 17,400 are likely split evenly between children, women, and men. That would mean that 11,600 women and children have died of combat-related causes. These deaths are to be regretted, and the Israelis do regret them. But with the IDF forced to fight in one of the most densely-populated places on earth, where Hamas routinely hides its fighters and weapons within civilian sites and buildings, hoping to increase civilian casualties, it is not possible to avoid these casualties. The Israelis, of course, make tremendous efforts to minimize civilian casualties by — dropping millions of leaflets, sending millions of text messages, and making millions of robocalls, all in order to warn Gazans of places about to be targeted.
“Canada condemns the fact that the Israeli government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in Gaza,” he [Carney] said.
The Israeli government has not “allowed a catastrophe to unfold” in Gaza. It has just since May delivered 93 million meals to people in Gaza. It is moving heaven and earth to keep the aid trucks entering Gaza, but the Israelis cannot be held responsible if the trucks, laden with humanitarian aid, go into Gaza but then remain unloaded, as the UN and other aid agencies refuse to unload them, for they are determined to see the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation fail, in order to force it to give back the distribution of the aid to those who in the past allowed Hamas to steal much of the aid.
Trump’s remark, linking Carney’s announcement about recognizing a Palestinian state to the amount of tariffs he plans to impose on Canada, should provide a salutary shock to other states now engaged in tariff negotiations, that might once have thought of joining Macron and Starmer on the “state of Palestine” juggernaut, but now will have to reconsider, and likely choose to hold back. A salutary outcome.