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They're using our bombs and weapons, that's the big problem people have. The only reason Israel is that powerful is they are supported by Western empire, they are an extension of our imperialism. If we hold back our arm sales to them, then they can't use them. It's that simple. There's a big difference between using sanctions as a part of imperialism, which is most of the reason for the example countries you used, and to help stop it. It's also a big reason the South African apartheid regime fell. It probably won't cause regime change, which is the main goal the US had with those other countries, but it will stop Israel from using our weapons and money and it will act as a chip during negotiations. After all, it has made life worse in all those countries, so they still wouldn't want one. Even if they continue their genocide, then at least the US wouldn't be culpable and so hypocritical.

Israel only doesn't have a reason to listen because they're getting everything they want anyway thanks to unconditional US support. We just sent them another couple billion dollars a week or two ago and continue to veto UN resolutions against them. There's nothing they want from Palestine except for its land and the extermination of its people. I'm curious how you think their negotiations are going?

Mentioning Palestine is not enough. Trump mentions black people all the time in his speeches, and you think that means most black people should be happy to vote for him? Or Jewish people? Context matters.

She still mentioned the hostages a lot more, which means the matter is important to people, but only for one side of it, the pro-genocide side. This is mostly a matter of lobbyists power in our government, biased media, and Israel's importance to US empire in the Middle East.

I agree that Gaza isn't as popular as it should be probably, hence the calculus to not mention it and my cope is that she does care more than Biden but didn't make it a priority there because of all the old people at the DNC and Republicans they invited. But neither were black people during civil rights or LGBTQ people during the AIDS epidemic, or hell, the holocaust while it was happening was ignored by Americans too. Hopefully activists can continue to shine a light on the issue and push it more into the spotlight before the genocide has completely turned into another nakba. It's already a lot more popular than it was before, and the polls continue to show increasing opinions against Israel's occupation as people are educated about what's going on over there, so crossing my fingers.