Reply #8: Let me say something unpopular but realistic about how this happens

[HamdenRice]

Let me say initially, that the problems is the paradigm of separate sovereign countries that don't interfere in each others internal affairs. That obviously does not describe the situation with Israel, anymore than it describes the situation with Puerto Rico.

So once we understand how the two countries are interlinked, the US needs to get over its squeamishness about "taking sides" in Israeli politics -- because frankly recent Israeli governments have not been squeamish about taking sides in American politics.

To put it bluntly, the Democrats are allied with Labour; the Republicans are allied with Likud and the successors of Likud and rump Likud.

The roadblock to solving the I/P problem has been domestic Israeli politics. The way to destroy that roadblock is for the US government while under Democratic Party control to massively favor Labour. That support should be blunt and obvious: vote for Labour and get your foreign aid; don't vote for Labour and deal with the world with your own resources.

The Israeli voting public will get a clue and fast.