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If you think Netanyahu won't agree to this ceasefire proposal, then he surely wouldn't have agreed to the prior proposals. And if so, then calling for a ceasefire would have been a waste of time.
Pressure is pressure, not abiding a UN resolution is a bad look and allows for further pressure to be put on Israel. Biden has continually kept away Israel away from that pressure while funding them. He's got his hands dirty. The fact is they're delaying for time, they don't care about the hostages, they care about how much time they can use to inflict the maximum amount of suffering on gaza before they're cast of of international society. Thats it, and Biden is giving them the time and space to do so.
Uncompromising pressure is exactly the approach taken by Trump and the GOP against Iran, in contrast to the olive branch offered by Obama. It's also the approach taken by multiple presidents against Cuba and North Korea.
It's not an effective way to get a regime to change its behavior. It doesn't cast countries out of international society, it simply realigns them with countries like China.
Who said anything about uncompromising? Almost all the member states agreed on it save 2. The two with the most to gain from this conflict. Compromise would be to go with the consensus. Really weird to paint a joint UN resolution as 'uncompromising pressure' in line with Trump on Iran, he literally assassinated their top military general. What part of that is like a UN resolution with a majority approval?
It doesn't matter what you want to call it. You want to try to isolate Israel, but isolating a country won't change its behavior. It will change its allies.
And what does funding and delaying for them do?
Sometimes it allows a degree of influence.
For example, the US has given a lot of funds to Ukraine. But the US does not want Ukrainian troops on Russian soil, and this may be one of the reasons Ukrainians haven't done so.
Well we stopped funding Ukraine, so no wonder they gotta listen to us, clearly their funding isn't secure. The fact that netanyahu publicly goes against biden is because he knows that'll never happen to him. You want to influence him, but there's no incentive for him to listen, he knows no one will stop funding him. Give him incentive to listen, yank his funding his statements make it clear he doesn't think that's a possibility.
No to mention if you suggesting the funding and delaying, the abeding of genocide, is to get influence that we can't use to stop the genocide well Ill let you figure out how that's the same thing as complicity. But the type of complicity where you're also paying for it.
That's not what I meant. The US asked Ukraine not to cross the border with Russia early in the war, it was a particular concern when Ukrainians were making rapid gains throughout Kharkiv. Now that our Ukrainian funding has stopped, our influence is also decreasing. Hopefully that's just temporary.
Regardless, sending money to Israel is not the same as being complicit in genocide. If that were true, then pretty much everyone with a smartphone is complicit in China's genocide of Uyghirs and every European who buys Russian gas is complicit in Russia's genocide of Ukraine.