That soft power you are mentioning isn’t worth shit if the “stick” to killing so many people, over so many years and during this war, is “we’ll ban you from comming to the US if you go and murder a guy and take over his land”. It’s an empty gesture that does nothing. Would that airforce ever be used if Israel went for a full genocide? Would it be used if they displaced everyone from Gaza city, southward? Because so far, the Israelis have resorted to telling people to “go south”, bombarded the everliving shit out of most neighborhoods in the city.

Soft power means nothing to people who don’t give a shit about it. See North Korea with the tree incident. It’s there to buy time and hope it blows over for the US. Right now all eyes are on Gaza. They won’t be in a few months - see Ukraine and how many people stopped giving a shit after that time. Meanwhile in both places, people are dying, and proportionally not much is being done about it.