The Biden administration’s policy on Gaza has been widely criticised as being in disarray as the defense secretary described the situation as a “humanitarian catastrophe” the day after the state department declared Israel to be in compliance with international humanitarian law.
Washington was also on the defensive on Tuesday over its claim that a UN security council ceasefire resolution on which it abstained was non-binding, an interpretation that put the US at odds with other member states, international legal scholars and the UN itself.
The only real solution is one nobody has the political capital to pull off.
You treat them like fighting toddlers. Roll in and forcibly separate them. Set up a DMZ.
“You, go over here and knock off your bullshit.”
“You, go over there and stop your bullshit.”“No, I don’t CARE who started it. I’m ENDING it.”
Nobody will ever do that to Israel.
The two toddler solution
"fuck it, if you can’t agree, nobody gets this. " *eats land*
Unfortunately that option has never been tested against a nuclear weapons state. That makes a huge difference. Iraq was a powerful regional military when they invaded Kuwait, a coalition of forces promptly rocked up and slapped the empire building off their face.
When Russia invaded Ukraine the situation was similar in every way but one, Russia can respond to a catastrophic battlefield outcome with nuclear escalation.
Israel both has nuclear capacity and has very little strategic depth. Whatever doctrinal tripwire they use to determine the deployment scenario for their nuclear deterrent could quickly be reached, meaning that moving in force to end the genocide is functionally impossible.
Currently we would be able to tell that our governments are actively trying to intervene if we see sanctions starting to appear. Right now the Whitehouse can say what they want to damage control the situation, the US is actively providing political, economic, and material support to the activities of the IDF. If that stops, then you know they are trying to do something, until then, keep protesting.
You’d also have to reverse the systemic settler colonialism of Israeli Zionists on Palestinian land, otherwise Israel will continue to illegally seize land and homes to displace Palestinians.
White house lawyer #1: “Wait, these things are binding?” White house lawyer #2: “Don’t know, never let any of them with regards to Israel pass before…”
