Israel primarily needs air strike capability, and lots of it. No other country could provide Israel with bombs and planes on the scale that the US currently supplies them. A US arms embargo would force Israel to use up its current stockpiles, and could seriously affect their war effort.
Despite the fact that Israel has initiated all of the recent military strikes in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon, none of its neighbors, not even Iran, want escalation to a full scale conflict. The idea that they would all suddenly attack Israel following a US arms embargo is sheer fantasy.
The suggestion that the US is actually managing to restrain Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank seems pretty naïve. The US has continually refused to impose any meaningful limits on Israel’s use of its weapons or sanctions on specific units of the IDF even though the State Dept had to basically acknowledge that yes, Israel had “most likely committed war crimes but no, we are unable or unwilling to elaborate further”. They’re pretty obviously having to spin the reality on the ground so it sounds like war crimes are not being committed, even though they so clearly are, just so that they can continue to bypass the Leahy law.
Israel primarily needs air strike capability, and lots of it. No other country could provide Israel with bombs and planes on the scale that the US currently supplies them. A US arms embargo would force Israel to use up its current stockpiles, and could seriously affect their war effort.
Despite the fact that Israel has initiated all of the recent military strikes in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon, none of its neighbors, not even Iran, want escalation to a full scale conflict. The idea that they would all suddenly attack Israel following a US arms embargo is sheer fantasy.
The suggestion that the US is actually managing to restrain Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank seems pretty naïve. The US has continually refused to impose any meaningful limits on Israel’s use of its weapons or sanctions on specific units of the IDF even though the State Dept had to basically acknowledge that yes, Israel had “most likely committed war crimes but no, we are unable or unwilling to elaborate further”. They’re pretty obviously having to spin the reality on the ground so it sounds like war crimes are not being committed, even though they so clearly are, just so that they can continue to bypass the Leahy law.