If Washington insists on being the arbiter of sanctions and using them as a foreign policy weapon, then Israel should no longer be shielded from them.
  • Knoll0114@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think we know that they won’t. The U.S. has never universally applied it’s ire based on bad behaviour alone, I don’t see why they’d start now.

    • ryan213@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Because Israel will continue violating human rights knowing the US will always protect them.

      • lily33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It’s not really human rights violations that drive US sanctions anyway. There’s plenty of other countries that are rife with human rights violations, but don’t get sanctions. So long as they listen when US interests are concerned, they’re fine.

    • Murais@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It goes beyond that.

      With Saudi Arabia leaning increasingly towards BRICS and being more erratic in its support of the West, Israel is the last firm diplomatic beacon and region of influence the US has in the Middle East.

      It also just so happens to be an apartheid state.

      Even if public opinion sharply turned on Israel (it won’t), the US would still hold firm in supporting it. Not because it’s obligated to Israel or even because of sunk-cost fallacy. But because it would remove any chance of the US playing a part in regional hegemony.