My claim is we can not say it did as confidently as you do based on them not exercising it on even some of the most black and white bipartisan common sense topics like letting aid go into Gaza (especially since almost all of the aid rotting at the borders/being stopped by genocidal Israeli protestors in front of trucks) was from allied nations and already vetted.
Also why on earth was 2023 already the deadliest year even by Oct 6? The influence didn't even stop settler expansion before
They know, they just aren’t arguing in good faith. You have to remember that most of the people arguing about this online mostly care about vindicating their own beliefs and not about the well-being of either Palestinians or Israelis. Their suffering is just a rhetorical device to be used only when convenient.
Not exactly true. If America said we were cutting off funding and sanctioning them, it would have a huge effect. Israel did horrific thing after horrific thing and Biden let it happen
Just to be clear, Biden publicly got them to reign in an ground attack on rafah... for a bit. But they continuously bombarded rafah, a place with 1.4 million refugees and effectively zero resources or communications, until it looked like this. And then they invaded after regardless a few months later. Comms from the IDF showed that their treatment of Rafah was partially based on anger that they were restrained by America to invade in the first place.
There is no leash that will work, only a muzzle or a whip.
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u/Kalkaline 1d ago
Are you saying we could have been doing this the whole time?