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Darc Requiem on 11 January 2024
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Machiavellian said:
Darc Requiem said:

The United States can greatly reduce Israels effectiveness. 80% of Israel's arms come from the US. If the US cuts Israel off it would greatly hamper their military efforts because they'd run out munitions. Biden has circumvented Congress twice since the start of the latest conflict to approval arms sales to Israel. This isn't even including the billions of dollars of aid the US provides to Israel in general. 

Naw, the US cannot do anything because the US is divided.  That is what I am trying to tell you.  Also Biden did not circumvent congress, its within his power as president, he does not need congress approval.  You believe the US is going to jump in and save the Palestinians but look at the US history in the region and you see that looking for them to do anything that will be effective is asking for a miracle.  Neither Dems nor GOP are concerted on any one effort and if you know US politics you know when both parties do not agree with a majority then nothing gets done.

So no, the US no matter who is in the president seat is going to do nothing.  If anything they will still do more for Israel then they will ever do for the Palestinians unless by some miracle you get someone in the president seat that is part of neither popular candidates.

You are confusing CAN with WON'T. The US won't do anything. You started of saying there is nothing to US can do. I was just pointing out that you were factually incorrect. The US can cripple Israel's efforts by simply refusing to sell them arms. Israel is NOTHING without US backing. Don't try to move the goalposts now.

Also there is no real division, the US backs Israel 100%. Several people in the government have dual US-Israeli citizenship. There is a subset of the Democratic Party that supports Palestine. Most do not. The Democrats and Republicans agree on few things. Unfortunately, Israel is one of those things on which they agree. The US, or at least our government, is divided on Ukraine. The Democrats tried to tie Ukrainian and Israeli aid together because they both agree on Israel and but the Republicans disagree on Ukraine.