firebush03 said:
According to this poll from GlobalAffairs.org (conducted through late-June) (non-politically partisan Western organization), a heavy plurality of (non-Republican) Americans believe the USA "is providing too much aid to Israel" and "support putting restrictions on US military aid to Israel". This would be one of the most popular moves that the DNC could dream of! Furthermore, you are forgetting the USA has leverage with its weapons: Ronald Reagan with a swift and stern threat utilizing legitimate leveraging powers was able to stop the madman Israel during its bombings in 1982. If Biden wanted, he could have Netanyahu agreeing to a ceasefire by the end of this week. It is solely with the weapons which Biden had given Israel which these bombings occur. So, in other words, by stripping aid to Israel, I'm suggesting that a ceasefire would likely follow shortly thereafter, further making popular the move. |
I put extremely limited stake into polls like that because issues are susceptible to framing. It is why a ton of people supported the ACA but didn't support Obamacare (despite them being the same thing). It isn't hard to see the risk in anti-Israel policy and I wouldn't imagine that any political analyst would seriously assert that that risk is non-existent. Should the US government do more to reign in Israel? In my opinion, yes, but ignoring those risks and acting like that course of action would only have political upsides is willful ignorance.
Also, while the US has leverage for sure (something I never denied or "forgot"), we don't control Israel's foreign policy. I don't know what course of action they would take if the US cut weapon supplies, but I do know that it would cause an avalanche of political counter-messaging from both Republicans and Israel allied groups, even moreso if an attack on Israel happened after this weapons embargo.
