Re:Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian s...
by joshbaptiste on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:24AM
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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.
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Re:Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian s...
by pthread_t on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:43AM
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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
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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.