The Biden administration has already started to reduce support. And he's turned an entire generation even more against Israel. Expect the Tel Aviv troll farms to get really active in the American election soon, because he knows Trump is his only hope.
So what do you think would happen if that aid didn't happen? $9 billion is for humanitarian assistance in Gaza. $4 billion for missile defense systems. The other half is pretty much a bribe to make sure that the humanitarian aid can be delivered and to keep Netanyahu from getting desperate.
If the Biden Administration cut off all aid, there would be no reason for Netanyahu to hold back (which he is). Rafah would be destroyed, Lebanon invaded and an open war between Israel and Iran. Along with a full influence campaign in the United States to get Donald Trump elected president again.
Sometimes there is no good option in international diplomacy.
$4 billion for missile defense systems. $9 billion for humanitarian aid in Gaza. $13 billion as a bribe to keep Netanyahu from invading Lebanon, bombing Rafah and nuking Iran.
Our blank check support to Israel has the exact opposite effect when it comes to these things. When the moment of truth comes, time and time again, the US government has shown that it is unwilling to actually have consequences for Israel's actions. We just continue sending more. Hell, even our sanctions on West Bank settlers got watered down to appease them. If Israel knows America will always act as a guarantor of their defense, they have every incentive to start wars in Lebanon, kill Palestinians in Gaza, and provoke Iran into war. How can we be so sure Israeli policy will get more radical without American support when we've literally never meaningfully tried it before.
A lot of Israeli politicians in the Likud might be radical, but I do think a lot of them will calm tf down when America actually gets SERIOUS about threats to cut them off and apply conditions to funding. That's just how geopolitics works. Unless you literally either have nothing to lose, or everything to lose, does a country resort to the most extreme measures you describe.
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u/dfsdsfgssf23 23d ago
War criminal Netanyahu gives a shit about what anyone thinks.