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US politicians speaking against Israel's aggression might just be trying to save face for US reputation globally while not really doing anything to interfere with Israel.
Biden and Blinken are both publicly confirmed Zionists, he said. They have not offered reasons why this is in US interests, perhaps because it's less and less easy to do so.
The special relationship is not in Israel's longterm interest, he argues. Because US backs Israel nomatter what Israel does while Israel doen't really seem to heed US interests and just goes ahead and does what it want, over time it creates a situation where Israel doesn't seek a stable position within it's relationships. It hasn't sought peace for 40 years of occupation. It has strengthened Israeli's extermists.
500k Israelis now live outside Israel and 80% have told pollsters they don't intend to return. Emigration has increased recently particularly among educated (who are the mainstay of Israel's economy).
Israel's current leadership does not want to seize short term advantages like the one they currently have, and use them to try to develop a genuine and legitimate long term solution.
Israeli supporters in US playing hardball recently (in response to many in US speaking in support of Palestine), including at universities (and some towns perhaps trying) making laws, speech codes that potentially violate the First Amendment let alone the principles of academic freedom. Macarthyite tactics to protect a country currently engaged in a genocidal campaign and expanding it. But people don't like being bullied or told what to do.
What does this do to the American brand about Western Values, civic discource, inclusion, things Americans and others largely believe US stands for. Such a double standard, such a hypocrisy. Victims.
When Blinken talks about Rules Based Order people roll their eyes now. Also this costs a lot of time and energy, to deal with Middle East. And makes US look incopenant, like US doesn't know what it wants and doesn't know how to get it. US has been saying they want peace there for a year and nothings been done.
America (in dealing with Houthis) can count on decades of experience in Afghanistan. Appropriate levels of funding, foreign involvment, political processes, autonomous organic growth.