This is a nice little rant, but there is nothing “complicated” about the Leahy law or the State Department discretion unless you’re literally a child or have some kind of cognition issue. It’s straight forward. If Biden wants to stop sending weapons, all he has to do is tell his Secretary of State “hey, stop sending weapons on account of the law says we can’t” and it’s done.

Your argument is silly. There are laws on the book that empower the State Department to block arms transfers to Israel. The only way this can be undone is if Congress repealed the laws, which is hardly likely.

LOL destruction of the group as a political force is abolutely not in reach or even close to it. This is a deeply entrench sectarian group. It is the political and military expression of Lebanese Shia and the bonds and loyalty run extremely deep. There is no analogue to it among the other two sects, who dominate the official government and will never coordinate together in auch a manner as to defeat it. If it were as simple as assassination leaders, bombing infrastructure and invading the south, it would have been done decades ago.

You’re being sold a delusional bill of goods just as in 2003 and 2006.

Or… hear me out… MI5 just wants more funds.

It’s a truth that’s buried very, very deep for a number of reasons, not least of which is the horrors of the Holocaust and the role that the memory of it plays as an alibi for liberal atrocities and violence. Today, hundreds of Arabs can be exterminated in a 24 hour period and the Holocaust will still be invoked as an alibi.

The other reason is the way in which religion is still a powerful but “hidden” hand in secular nations. It’s not-so-hidden in American politics, where megachurch pastors are openly proclaiming the extermination of Gazans is divine punishment. Even in Europe, major state-linked churches like the Church of England have open links to Israeli religious settlement programs and make no bones of their unconditional support for Israel.

Western identity - both religious and secular - is fundamentally Judeocentric. From believing they’re the root of all evil to believing that they can do no evil, it’s a complex built into Western psychology. Jewish exceptionalism has worked out great for Jews since WWII ended is the key thing. We have gotten to the point where in some parts of the West, they’re granted the right to commit genocide and the right not to be even reproached for it (so-called "Holocaust inversion).

The strong win and the weak cry about injustice.

Wow! You’ve just changed me entire outlook on the Holocaust!

This isn’t “dissent” really. To start with, the decision was made by basically Sinwar and a few of his small circle. Haniyah and the political leadership were caught off guard and knew it was a totally inopportune time to attack. I talked to a political analyst who knows Khaled Meshal well and he told me that 1) the operation spiralled out of control because they met such little resistance 2) the militant leadership inside Gaza were myopic and led by a guy who had spent 22 years of his life in prison and didn’t have the full strategic picture.

This was the least opportune moment possible in every way I can think of, down to who is in the White House. If it was Trump it would have at least greatly damaged US Israel relations through the partisanship factor.

The context for that is a genocide case at the ICJ, which is at the same stage of ajudication as the case against Myanmar, for which all sorts of sanctions have been implemented…