> israel is proof that without sanctions, you can easily maintain such a state yes, a state that receives unconditional support from the global hegemon is proof of that. lmao. if us was acting as a rational state according to its interests, israel would not be able to maintain the opt for almost 60 years now. this does not mean israel would not exist today, but rather a compromise would be reached between the israelis and the palestinians. of course, this compromise would probably favor the israelis as the compromise did favour white south africans but it would at least be acceptable by palestinians, unlike the oslo accords. > critically, this was before mordechai vanunu spilled the beans on israel's nuclear program so if they were acting purely in self interest, selling nukes to the south africans would be an insane risk to take come on now, the americans and the soviets both agreed on non proliferation in the middle east and as such the state dept has been pushing for iaea inspections of the dimona facilities since the 60's and israelis have been pushing against this ever since without any compromise, and because us hasn't been acting like a rational state since the end of eisenhower regime, nothing actually came off this. mordechai vanunu's "revelations" were like elton john "officially" coming out as a fag - everybody already knew israel was a nucler state.
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