Biden & Israel: What it's Like to Make Policy in the White House
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart is joined with Steven Simon, former Director of the National Security Council in the Obama Administration. The two discuss what the conversation in the White House in regards to U.S. policy towards Israel, as it was in the Obama Administration and possibly now in the Biden Administration.
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Your guest says that the war has ripped off the mask of antisemitism in America……if he’s implying protestors seeking a ceasefire are antisemetic……he needs to acknowledge that Israel has become a split society too, with walls and checkpoints and numerous apartheid-like conditions which separate societies there as well
Steven Simon explains why US chooses to be powerless.
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Glad Peter was able to give him a bit of pushback in the end there on the Zionist talking points about ‘destroying’ Hamas + hiding behind civilians crap
I think we do have some leverage……we could start with the $4billion we annually give them…and stop providing weaponry
The supplemental gives them $14 Billion now in addition to the annual $3.8B
Interesting insight into the old generation thinking.
Lots of young people, including many young people of a Jewish background today no longer blindly support Israel.
A lot of his justifications for outrageous Israeli behaviour and potential war crimes no longer seem to stand up to scrutiny.
There is a pathway to peace though as he broadly outlined:
- A contiguous, viable, autonomous (or semi autonomous for a specified period) Palestinian state
- in return for …
- Normalisation with the Arab world
- And continued US funding and nato style protection.
The US has got to withhold military and economic funding as part of that deal. It’s an important part of the leverage.