Unlike his previous diplomatic postings in Malaysia, China and Pakistan, Casey found direct negotiations with Israeli officials fundamentally different when it came to how the US uses its leverage.
“In Malaysia, if you didn’t cooperate, you could get sanctioned,” he explains. “With Pakistan, we could pull training programs, stop certain aid.”
“But with the Israelis, it’s completely different. They just have to drag out negotiations and we’ll eventually agree to whatever they want.”
My hope for the future is that the Trump administration and his choices for leadership positions will be so incompetent, will be such a failure, that it fails in supplying Israel with assistance (weapons, diplomatic cover internationally, and political cover domestically) allowing Gazans to finally have peace and the space rebuild along with consequences for Israel (sanctions, isolation, arrest of leaders and war criminals).
Don’t worry, they put very very competent people in charge of support of Israel.
It’s going to be a whole different story for American public.
It’s going to be a whole different story for American public.
my hope is that trump is enough to catalyze us into finally doing something; it’s probably the last chance for us (presuming that our last chance wasn’t the election itself).
@eldavi they already lived through 4 years of that orange Hitler and the best they could come up with was GenocideJoe and freaking Harris.
US 2 party oligarchy system can’t produce solution to the rise of fascism specially since their policies are so closely tied in so many basic issues.
But sadly people think the majority of the voters who willingly voted for a convicted criminal, can just wake up one day and find empathy and lose their deeply rooted hate.
i’m and american liberal and both lemmy & tiktok have made me aware that liberals and conservatives are 2 sides of the same fucked up coin. i’m also i’m under no illusion that americans won’t change anytime soon.
trump’s aspirations in his last term were thwarted by my ruling class’ desire to maintain the status quo. trump now has nouveau oligarchs and political think tanks supporting him (unlike last time and at least for now); which will help enable to him to succeed this time around.
