I don’t get it, if the Biden admin believes that Netanyahu is this bad actor why isn’t there more of an effort to reign him in? Like conditioning aid has largely been an empty threat.
Because despite Netanyahu’s abysmal leadership and bloodthirsty behavior, the vast majority of Americans still strongly prefer the Israeli government to literal terrorist armies committed to the eradication of Jews from the region, and weakening aid wouldn’t accomplish anything to help to secure a ceasefire and would only harm Israel’s security.
The benefit of conditioning aid is that it washes the hands of the US from whatever breaches of IHL that Israel may be committing, but it doesn’t help to make peace happen. It may push Israel to make more concessions, but it incentivizes Hamas to do the opposite.
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u/rockop0tamus NATO Oct 08 '24
I don’t get it, if the Biden admin believes that Netanyahu is this bad actor why isn’t there more of an effort to reign him in? Like conditioning aid has largely been an empty threat.