Will the United States Ever Sanction Israel?
No
“Will the United States ever sanction the 51st state?”
lol
It goes beyond that.
With Saudi Arabia leaning increasingly towards BRICS and being more erratic in its support of the West, Israel is the last firm diplomatic beacon and region of influence the US has in the Middle East.
It also just so happens to be an apartheid state.
Even if public opinion sharply turned on Israel (it won’t), the US would still hold firm in supporting it. Not because it’s obligated to Israel or even because of sunk-cost fallacy. But because it would remove any chance of the US playing a part in regional hegemony.
It goes beyond even that!
I call it the 51st state because Israel’s entire founding ideology is the same as the rest of the US - it’s a white supremacist settler colony founded on ethnic cleansing of native populations, expropriation of lands from natives, and ethno-nationalism. It’s part of the same ideological project and has all the same politics and all the same internal contradictions. American public opinion won’t ever turn on Israel because they are American.
51st State? You mean Puerto Rico? Or DC?
Those aren’t states for exactly the same reasons.
No because the US evangelical right is an apocalypse cult which believes that Israel completely destroying Palestine is a necessary condition for their desired apocalypse.
I think we know that they won’t. The U.S. has never universally applied it’s ire based on bad behaviour alone, I don’t see why they’d start now.
Why?
Because Israel will continue violating human rights knowing the US will always protect them.
It’s not really human rights violations that drive US sanctions anyway. There’s plenty of other countries that are rife with human rights violations, but don’t get sanctions. So long as they listen when US interests are concerned, they’re fine.
