Comment on Quid Pro Quo – Now Iran Asks Russia for Air Defense Systems

• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Halt any arms shipments to Israel around November 23rd of last year until commit to peace talks, or as soon as it became apparent the hostages were a red hearing, which was very early. I would have have condemned their colonial, genocidal mission unequivocally. I would have worked with the strongest democracy in the region and one of our most important strategic allies, Turkey, to find a way to support the Palestinian people in re-engaging in their democratic process.

  I would have joined other nations like Ireland and Spain in calling out the wrong doing that Israel is and has been clearly engaging in. I would have set up a situation, early on, for the Palestinian people to hold elections, something the Israelli government have been working to prevent for over a decade. Early in this process, Hamas was deeply unpopular among Palestinians. Thats not the case any more, largely due to Israel. And if the Palestinian people elect Hamas (again), c’est la vie. Then they are the elected representative government of Palestine and Israel needs to work with them.

  The United States has had all the leverage it ever needed to stop this situation right in its tracks as soon as it was obvious that Israel was acting in bad faith to ethnically cleanse the remaining Palestinian lands they’ve desired. We still have that leverage this very moment. This is important because as much as people want Democrats to be the “good guys” in this situation, they have not been. Its an unwillingness on the part of the American executive branch to engage this leverage. To call the situation in Palestine as unintentional on the part of the US is utterly disingenuous. Israel has not shown them selves to be a good partner in the region. They lied to us in 2002 when Netanyahu testified before congress that Iraq was pursuing WMD’s. They’ve using the US to work towards a regional conflict for decades.

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