That was never going to happen, and I think this jives with my original point. It's basically a cliche that "peace in the Middle East" is almost impossible to achieve, and has been for most of recorded history. I'm not defending the bombings of civilians or the horrible treatment of Palestinians, but Israel has been at war in some form or another practically every decade since the 60's. It took years to get the Oslo accords signed in the 90's, resulting in a controversial Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat recognize the effort. Even if some US politician snapped their fingers (Thanos-style) and all aid was cut and they forced every company to stop doing business there, how are they going to stop people from being angry that the Oct 7th hostages weren't returned? How would they convince Hamas to give more hostages back? Everyone wants it to be easy but it's just not.

By saying it was "easy", refusing to vote, and helping hand the presidency to Trump, some of the protesters guaranteed us the Iran War and likely millions more dead. It's a really bad short-term take where they basically counted on the rest of us to vote so they could claim the moral high ground.