Israel cancels diplomatic visit to U.S. after U.N. vote demanding cease-fire

Religion is a hell of a drug.

AIPAC is a hell of a drug.

Government coffers are being emptied in exchange for campaign donations.

. I also assure you that nothing the US does either way will appreciably change anything over there. That conflict is baked into the very earth itself. Does that justify the arms deals? No. Do I have a point? Probably also no. But that's how it is and it sucks.

If the US turned off the spending taps, stopped blocking Security Council Resolutions, and stopped acting as Israels lawyer, arms dealer, propagandist, and bully things would change pretty damn quickly.

Israel is effectively an American colony. It would turn into a pariah state very quickly without US backing.

For most of their lives, Israel has been a priority in US foreign politics.

Biden has gone record multiple times saying his unwavering support for Israel is from when he was a very small child his dad said they were the good guys...

I believe him when he says that, and I believe someone like that should not be anywhere near a political office. He's clearly mental unstable if that's the truth, and a liar if it isn't.

An entire lifetime has passed by since then. It's just absolutely fucking insane, but that's what he says.

. I also assure you that nothing the US does either way will appreciably change anything over there.

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You don't think if Israel got billions of dollars a year less for defense spending and didn't have the biggest kid on the block defending them nothing would change?

If they acted like this without the US behind them, they'd be wiped off the map.

If the US left them, even for a brief period like a year, they'd be forced to actually pursue peace.

I also assure you that nothing the US does either way will appreciably change anything over there.

Could not disagree with you more on this.

Stop sending them billions of our taxpayer dollars, and stop sending them any more bombs being used to slaughter civilians. At the very least, this would force them to spend their own capital to produce their own bombs. That alone would make a massive difference.

They have reversed their veto now, that's what the article is about that you're commenting on.

Biden has tried negotiating directly with Netanyahu, and because that has stopped working the WH is starting to change how they're dealing with them.

Your comment is uninformed, ill-conceived and most importantly baldly inaccurate on its face.

The United States abstained, allowing it to pass.

Oh wow, look at the absolute bare fucking minimum...

Now Israel is surely in trouble after a non binding resolution...