If you’re a student of US FP via-a-vis Israel you know that there was always a debate between those that argued that if the US wants to make Israel do something it needs to show it has its back, and those that said that the U.S. needs to threaten with cutting military aid (1)
In this time around Trump showed that the former probably works much better than the latter.
It’s true we still don’t know all the details, but it’s very clear that Trump didn’t threaten Bibi even once with cutting military aid. In fact, he only strengthen U.S. military aid (2)
It’s true we still don’t know all the details, but it’s very clear that Trump didn’t threaten Bibi even once with cutting military aid. In fact, he only strengthen U.S. military aid (2)
It’s true that Biden also chose the former at first, and I would argue that through that he was able to convince Bibi not to do certain things (not opening a second front, giving more aid etc.), but when he threatened to cut some military aid he didn’t achieve much (3)
At the same time Bibi did many things that made Biden and his advisers think that he is not being cooperative (he wasn’t completely), so I can’t fault them of thinking they should use other tools.
In any case, the decision to cut some military aid was a mistake (4)
In any case, the decision to cut some military aid was a mistake (4)
This is what I wrote back then when the Biden administration threatened to cut military aid
thehill.com/opinion/intern…
thehill.com/opinion/intern…
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