Adam Johnson

We need to end U.S.

aid to Israel, which sounds like a very meaningful break from consensus.

But then you look at the fine print and by end U.S.

aid to Israel, they simply mean funding of the weapons systems.

But we still we still give them the weapons systems.

So it's not an arms embargo.

It's simply cutting off the funding.

But since all defense spending is funny money anyway, it's mostly a cosmetic difference.

It's just Israel pays for it versus Israel.

us but it doesn't really change anything and it was actually a proposal first introduced by benjamin netanyahu in january of 2026 and then supported by lindsey graham and so you have i think these kind of pseudo breaks from israel because again they can read a poll like anyone else can with democrats this is this is now an 80 20 85 15 issue

So, they're coming up with ways of looking like you're opposing Israel while not fundamentally changing the arms flow, the financial and economic support.

So, really what matters to me is do you support an arms embargo?

Do you support BDS?

Meaningful pressure on Israel rather than cosmetic hand-wringing about, quote unquote, too many Palestinian civilians dying, which is the expression they love to say, which implies there is some number of Palestinians who deserve to die.

They never tell you what that number is.

And so I think you'll get a lot of crocodile tears, a lot of hand-wringing, a lot of pseudo-breaks like this ending USAID or scapegoating Netanyahu as if people don't – if you look at Netanyahu's opposition in Israel, they're just as genocidal as he is on key issues.

This requires an external pressure by their largest patron, the United States, not some kind of electoral coup, which again, if you look at polling and you look at the actual positions of Netanyahu's opposition, on the fundamental issues of genocide, war with Iran, they're in agreement.

So that's where I see it going.

I think it's going to be about massaging people's guilty consciences and then basically doing nothing.

That's ultimately the conclusion of the book.