Such a plan must also have assumed that the unwillingness of successive past US Presidencies to exercise effective restraining leverage on Netanyahu would continue – an assumption now being put to a crucial test. Allowing the passage of a Security Council ceasefire resolution is a modest beginning. Netanyahu’s of course has an enduring capacity to ignore such ultimatums and even global revulsion over mounting starvation in Gaza, The US has an equally enduring capacity to cave into Netanyahu notwithstanding the magnitude of the slaughter and starvation brought about by the IDF. Reported by the Washington Post are recent new massive new arms shipments by the US to Israel – said to have included 1,800 900kg bombs – following a visit to Washington by Israel’s defence minister at the end of March. In doing so the US has surely dealt itself out of any direct role in rapidly bring the war to a truce. And such patent weakness suggests the US will show no greater spine in leveraging a two state solution.

Source: Firing up the Palestinian pressure cooker – Pearls and Irritations