All that said, we still watch individuals in Israel do whatever they want with virtually no restrictions, none. Even those wanted for criminal charges or supposedly under sanctions continue as usual.
On the other hand, look at people sanctioned by the U.S. government, like Francesca Albanese: reportedly cut off from financial services, unable to access even basic banking or credit cards, and relying on the support of others. She can barely get a platform in American media, while Netanyahu continues appearing on major U.S. networks without any obstacle.
This is fascinating, and insightful. It reminds us that the functioning of institutions delends on the people inside them, and that the Enlightment-inspired institutions that spread functioning democracies around the world and the post —WW 2 institutions they created are being undermined systematically and beginning to come apart. The formal structures may still exist, but it is harder and harder for them to constrain the powerful.
All that said, we still watch individuals in Israel do whatever they want with virtually no restrictions, none. Even those wanted for criminal charges or supposedly under sanctions continue as usual.
On the other hand, look at people sanctioned by the U.S. government, like Francesca Albanese: reportedly cut off from financial services, unable to access even basic banking or credit cards, and relying on the support of others. She can barely get a platform in American media, while Netanyahu continues appearing on major U.S. networks without any obstacle.
That double standard is impossible to ignore.
speechless
devastated
This is fascinating, and insightful. It reminds us that the functioning of institutions delends on the people inside them, and that the Enlightment-inspired institutions that spread functioning democracies around the world and the post —WW 2 institutions they created are being undermined systematically and beginning to come apart. The formal structures may still exist, but it is harder and harder for them to constrain the powerful.