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therobots927 ◴[] No.45266704[source]
I for one will be holding my representatives responsible who continue to vote for the US to enable a genocide. The videos coming out of Gaza have turned me and many others into single issue voters.
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beloch ◴[] No.45267542[source]
Flipping the U.S. really is the key to ending this conflict. The U.S. reliably uses its security council veto to nix any meaningful UN response and the U.S. remains, by far, the biggest supplier of arms to the IDF. If the US were to stop veto'ing everything and cut off the IDF's supply of, at least, some types of weapons, the new ground assault would likely end quickly.

Unfortunately, that isn't likely to happen. Netanyahu has, to date, handled Trump deftly and Rubio's current presence in Israel seems to be aimed at offering support to the ground offensive, not opposition. I honestly have no idea what kind of backlash it would take to shake U.S. support for this genocide.

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dlubarov ◴[] No.45268075[source]
Why would we expect any desirable outcome in this hypothetical though? So the US flips, Israel is pressured into withdrawing, Hamas regains control of the strip and resumes rocket attacks, Israel is forced to respond eventually. It doesn't seem like a path toward a real solution.
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sporkxrocket ◴[] No.45270471[source]
The US and all other nations sanction Israel. If that doesn't work, military intervention. Israel will fall, it's just a matter of time.
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dlubarov ◴[] No.45271241[source]
What would you demand Israel do to be released from these hypothetical sanctions?

Military intervention meaning invade a nuclear power?

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sporkxrocket ◴[] No.45271874[source]
Be dissolved. I think sanctions and making Israel economically unviable are a peaceful solution.
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LorenPechtel ◴[] No.45278636{6}[source]
Making Israel unviable is condemning the Jews to death. You think that's a proper solution?

And don't say "go home". The majority are descended from those expelled from Arab lands, there's no home to go to.

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1. Qem ◴[] No.45280359{7}[source]
Did Apartheid South Africa becoming unviable condemned white south africans to death?
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2. vdqtp3 ◴[] No.45280620[source]
Is this a trick question?
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3. platevoltage ◴[] No.45280868[source]
The answer is no. They still get to live there.
4. LorenPechtel ◴[] No.45291856[source]
Did the blacks promise genocide of the whites in South Africa? No.

Do the Palestinians promise genocide of the Jews in Israel? Yes.