[Peace-discuss] Netanyahu's War: What It Is Good For?

[Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss]

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The United States government has many levers on Netanyahu. Of course the
U.S. gives Netanyahu billions of U.S. taxpayers' dollars a year, but while
it would be politically difficult (to put it mildly) to cut off U.S.
military aid -- the Obama administration could not bring itself to cut off
military aid to the Egyptian military coup, even when clearly required to
do so by U.S. law -- the administration has many other, more subtle levers
on Netanyahu that it could deploy without giving AIPAC, the ADL and their
allies a convenient target for counterattack. The administration could
raise the volume of its public criticism of Netanyahu. The administration
could let it be known that it might refrain from vetoing a U.N. resolution
that condemned Netanyahu. The administration could "leak" that it is
deepening efforts to engage Hamas politically, then issue a non-denial
denial when these efforts are criticized. The administration knows full
well that it has all these levers and more. All it lacks is sufficient public
political pressure
<http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/ceasefire-Israel-Palestine> to use
them to force an end to the killing.

>From the past, we know how this ends. It ends with a new ceasefire. The key
question is how many human beings will be killed and injured in the
meantime. President Obama should use all his levers to stop the killing now
<http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/ceasefire-Israel-Palestine>.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/netanyahu-war_b_5574984.html

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1
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