Can the US Sanction Israel? A non zero amount of military technology and intelligence flows back to the US from Israel. So from a practical point of view could the US afford it? I think there’s a reason Israel is getting the GOP to fight the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement. They know if BDS is successful then there’s less downside to sanctioning them.
Oh yeah, you should check out the BDS movement.
“Will the United States ever sanction the 51st state?”
lol
It goes beyond that.
With Saudi Arabia leaning increasingly towards BRICS and being more erratic in its support of the West, Israel is the last firm diplomatic beacon and region of influence the US has in the Middle East.
It also just so happens to be an apartheid state.
Even if public opinion sharply turned on Israel (it won’t), the US would still hold firm in supporting it. Not because it’s obligated to Israel or even because of sunk-cost fallacy. But because it would remove any chance of the US playing a part in regional hegemony.
It goes beyond even that!
I call it the 51st state because Israel’s entire founding ideology is the same as the rest of the US - it’s a white supremacist settler colony founded on ethnic cleansing of native populations, expropriation of lands from natives, and ethno-nationalism. It’s part of the same ideological project and has all the same politics and all the same internal contradictions. American public opinion won’t ever turn on Israel because they are American.
Is American public opinion very pro-Israel? Certainly the political powers are, but the average citizen? (I’m not American, I genuinely don’t know)
51st State? You mean Puerto Rico? Or DC?
Will the United States Ever Sanction Israel?
No
No because the US evangelical right is an apocalypse cult which believes that Israel completely destroying Palestine is a necessary condition for their desired apocalypse.
Why?
Because Israel will continue violating human rights knowing the US will always protect them.
It’s not really human rights violations that drive US sanctions anyway. There’s plenty of other countries that are rife with human rights violations, but don’t get sanctions. So long as they listen when US interests are concerned, they’re fine.
I think we know that they won’t. The U.S. has never universally applied it’s ire based on bad behaviour alone, I don’t see why they’d start now.
