"For months, Netanyahu and his government have consistently ignored American counsel as to how to prosecute the war in Gaza against Hamas after the Oct. 7 terror attacks. Biden and his aides were repeatedly frustrated by Israel’s widening war aims within Gaza — with a devastating impact on Palestinian civilians — even at the cost of a deal to free the remaining hostages.
Biden deemed Israel’s response “over the top” and did stop one shipment of American arms to Israel. But even as pressure grew from fellow Democrats to create distance from Netanyahu, Biden’s reflexive instinct was to support Israel despite the swelling humanitarian crisis. As his influence over Netanyahu shrunk, the president’s anger grew. Phone calls between the two men were increasingly turned into shouting matches, according to one of the officials and one other senior official not authorized to discuss private conversations. Biden told confidants that he did not believe his Israeli counterpart wanted a cease-fire deal, arguing that Netanyahu was trying to perpetuate the conflict to save his political future and assist Trump in November’s election, the officials said."
He’s tried (almost) nothing and he’s all out of ideas. He’s most definitely not even tested the limits of his influence over Israel. He just doesn’t want that influence to involve anything more serious than “c’mon bucko!”.
Yeah, Imagine how different Israeli aggression would be if the flow of American Money and Weapons stopped.
But he doesnt want to do that, because Israel holds some weird fucking power over America.
It’s called AIPAC.
Their lobbying power is perfectly legal and immense.
It’s also all the weapons producers who are making money like they won the lotto selling those weapons. They have a ton of influence as well.
I agree but they are not as influential as AIPAC regarding supporting the mass punishment and murder of civilians in the middle east.
Weapons manufacturers will be busy for years resupplying stocks that were provided to Ukraine.
I’m not sure which has the stronger lobby. But even 1 of them by itself would probably been enough to keep US support for suppling Isreal going in the government.
It gotta take something more than a lobbying group to get America to offer up its tongue for use as TP, cause thats basically the stage that America is at with regards to servicing Israel.
Any politician that stands up to AIPAC gets millions (if not tens of millions) raised for their political opponents.
The vast majority of politicians are far too frightened to anger this lobby in an election year.
Didn’t one politician this year try to stand up to AIPAC and end up losing to an incredibly well-funded opponent? If so it would definitely have a chilling effect.
They have spent $100 million dollars this cycle.