• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Israel always listens, it can’t afford not to. Just don’t confuse public statements with private pressure.

    The US-Israel security partnership (intelligence) and Israeli lobby carry a lot of influence in D.C., so often times those two (public vs. private) don’t actually align because it takes a lot less political capital to make worthless PR statements, then to apply meaningful behind the scenes pressure.