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[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 minutes ago

Which Canadian government made it legal for a Canadian to serve in a military other the Canadian military?

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 35 minutes ago

I suspect this is one of those cases where something that looks like a simple solution to a moral dilemma actually opens up a big can of worms. I believe the current way of thinking is that we don't have any say over who another country allows to serve in their military. So a citizen who is eligible to join a foreign military just has to jump through the expected bureacratic hoops at the Canadian end for a long stay abroad.

We'd either have to bar all foreign military service by Canadians (which will cause some dual citizens to lose their foreign citizenship through no fault of their own), or somehow put Israel in a special category, which I don't see happening.

It might be possible to have people who have served in the IDF arrested and tried for war crimes upon return to Canada, but it would require some work to make the charges stick.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Too few to be honest. That said 19% didn't know so that's not 46% endorsement of the opposite.

[-] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 hours ago

We should imprison anyone who did serve with the IDF

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Only 54%!!! what's wrong with people

[-] webp@mander.xyz 1 points 20 minutes ago

War crimes are okay to north americans.

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But I have little faith that'll happen.

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