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Other than sanctions and cutting off trade, what kind of pressure can the world put on Netanyahu to stop the madness in Gaza?
Biden doesn't want to stop it, he wants to reduce the noise. And to achieve that his best option is to use indirect and direct support to knock Bibi out of control of the knesset. It's something that should've been done since the inauguration. The idea that he was going to somehow get the support of Bibi in any capacity was idiotic.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-biden-plan-to-ditch-israels-netanyahu.html
Edit: I'm genuinely curious what makes this so controversial of a take. That I'm arguing for realpolitik interventionism or that I'm criticizing biden?
You are attributing active malice, like Biden wants this shit to go on.
There is a big difference between not wanting to pressure somone to stop something vs WANTING that something to go on.
I'm sick of people acting like it's somehow OUR responsibility to stop Israel.
WTF is Biden getting shit for some other asshole leader doing shitty things?
How about blaming Benjamin Netanyahu? Or blaming the assholes that voted for Netanyahu?
This whole Israel thing just smells like some Republican bullshit trying to blame Democrats for something ridiculous.
We continue to supply arms and rush to do so. That Bibi's cabinet is full of genocidal maniacs(and that his coalition is specifically BUILT on those genocidal maniacs so it's resistant to soft attempts to lower the temperature because that would result in the fall of Bibi's government and his imprisonment for corruption) was known before the conflict even started. I don't really know how you think people will interpret this. If you think Biden's administration is unfairly tarred by their actions, maybe they shouldn't have done it. Ignorance is a fig leaf.
And even this is a response to a domestic issue. That's why I say Biden wants to reduce the noise. He's certainly showed no interest in actually using leverage to halt the conflict.
Whether you like it or not Israel is considered an US ally and they are a democracy. Sometimes allies drag you into shit, because politics on a global scale is complicated.
Look at Afghanistan and Iraq and how many of our allies we dragged into shit. You can't just say "no fuck off", because that means you're not really a reliable ally.
World politics is complicated, but like I said blaming Biden or wanting him to be some big dig swinger is just kids talk that don't understand fuck all about politics.
Horseshit. Biden is NOW doing exactly what I said. Being hostile to Likud and leveraging the US's position to freeze him out. The idea that we were somehow constrained by them being US allies before but aren't constrained now is silly. It's purely because he was too afraid of pissing off domestic Israel supporters and that fear led to the exact situation we're in now. These are decisions made, not the ineffable ebb and flow of international relations. And they were the wrong decisions.