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Re:Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian s... by joshbaptiste on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:24AM (#30639524)
USA just passed omnibus 2022 $1.5T spending bill which has $250 Million for Israel iron dome upgrades.. there is a POWERFUL Israeli lobby in the USA that won't let such sanctions get off the floor.
Re:Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian s... by pthread_t on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:43AM (#30639756)
They got $1 billion for the iron dome [1]

Regarding the Israel lobby, it is strong, but it's losing its grip:

25% of American Jews consider Israel to be an apartheid state [2]

Young evangelicals are increasingly turning away from Israel [3]

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-u-s-senate-approves...

[2] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/a-quarter-of-u-s-jews-agree-...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/a...

Re:Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian s... by slothtrop on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:49AM (#30640551)
Ultimately this is probably the key to change. As of yet Israel has had carte blanche to do what it wanted because the U.S. wants to have a proxy and looks the other way. Aid should be conditional on a sustainable solution, otherwise the U.S. is virtually complicit. This game of "we didn't make them do it" and showering them with cash and arms isn't fooling most people. I don't see how the country can go on pretending it doesn't have the capacity to strongly influence an outcome, it's just that the aggregate political will is not there yet.
Re:Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian s... by xdennis on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:34PM (#30643115)
What are you proposing? Just let their enemies bomb all of them out of existence?
Re:Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian s... by slothtrop on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:37PM (#30643157)
Strings attached would be a good start.