Rubio Is Right To Shrug His Shoulders At West Bank Settlement Boycotts | Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : And mainly, find clever ways to help Israel's moderates win on October 27.
60% : But Britain -- and the others -- also have valuable commercial, technological, intelligence and security relationships with Israel.
59% : Israel's conduct deserves scrutiny.
49% : If Britain truly regards Israel's behavior as sufficiently intolerable to justify economic isolation, there is a more coherent policy available: seriously reconsider the relationship.
45% : Instead they have selected a highly visible punishment with relatively little economic bite, allowing them to retain the parts of the Israeli relationship they need while satisfying small but hysterically anti-Israel constituencies at home.
45% : Israel's government has tolerated and sometimes encouraged conduct that deserves condemnation.
43% : It hands Benjamin Netanyahu a campaign gift weeks before an Israeli election that his opponents desperately need to make about his failures, while risking valuable economic, intelligence and security relationships with Israel -- and America -- for sanctions whose impact will be largely symbolic.
41% : Israel has already retaliated against Britain by closing its East Jerusalem consulate and curtailing British participation in regional security initiatives.
40% : Most Western governments regard East Jerusalem as occupied territory and reject Israel's annexation.
40% : Instead, they increasingly see Israel itself becoming an international pariah.
39% : Their path to victory runs through center-right Israelis who have grown exhausted by Netanyahu while remaining deeply concerned about Israel's security.
38% : Hypocrisy and ignorance appear to be facilitating this kowtowing to anti-Israel hysteria whipped up by the global left and backed by shady foreign social media campaigns.
33% : His opponents need the coming election to be about the catastrophic failure preceding October 7, the conduct of the wars that followed, his corruption trial, his attacks on independent institutions and his effort to push Israel toward something resembling an elected autocracy.
33% : Across Africa, the Middle East and Asia, wars, massacres, persecution and mass displacement have killed and uprooted vastly more people, attracting an absurdly small fraction of the diplomatic energy devoted to Israel.
32% : There is also something hypocritical about governments that have no intention of giving up the benefits of close relations with Israel advertising their moral disapproval through a crudely simplistic boycott.
32% : The policy may please some of Western left-wing voters demanding that their governments punish Israel -- but it simultaneously helps the Israeli politician they presumably most want to weaken.
24% : Netanyahu can tell those voters that foreign governments are once again trying to dictate Israel's borders, punish Jews for living on the wrong side of a fairly random line drawn when the fighting stopped in 1949 and treat businesses in parts of Jerusalem that Israel has annexed and where Arabs have rights to citizenship as if they were radical distant hilltop outposts.

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