Rashida Tlaib is getting blowback for urging Michigan Democratic primary voters to cast their ballots as “uncommitted” rather than for Joe Biden. But if voters take issue with Biden’s support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, that’s no one’s fault but his own.
That seems to be the central point your argument hinges on. Any actual evidence for that? Because they trade with more than just the US and Europe. India and Israel have ties, just as one example. They also have domestic military manufacturing and a robust tech industry. Their tanks are not our Abrams for instance, they use their own, called Merkavas.
Otherwise your belief that the US can just make them stop seems to be based on just a hunch, or maybe something someone told you, or wishful thinking or something. I don’t see the reality of it, beyond what certain propagandists say.
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I think sanctions are the exact answer, that’s reasonable.
If all your BDS is aimed at the US and Europe though, you’re not actually stopping Israel. You’re just attacking the west. Which is fine, people can support that if they want. But it’s not saving Gazans unless you’re pressuring other Israeli trading partners too.
We’re actually doing something to save Gazan lives, even if it’s behind-the-scenes, and complicated. Not just empty words in the UN, which implemented sanctions against South Africa, I’ll remind you, not some empty, toothless “please end apartheid, k thx bye”.
I just believe in results, and I don’t fall for empty political stunts under the guise of “first steps”. Netanyahu believes in power. So, power is what needs to be used against him. Economic leverage should be enough. Empty words and “first steps” are crap though. Bullshit. Hogwash. Political stunts to fool people, from the same countries that refuse to accept Palestinian refugees. We do accept some, by the way, barely any at all, but at least we take some.