The U.S. is an empire, and Israel is it's largest military outpost in the Middle East. Israel also gives the U.S. deniability: Israel can do things that align with U.S. interests (e.g., various attacks on Iran), but the U.S. doesn't risk blowback to the same degree it would if the U.S. pulled the trigger itself.

This is why the U.S. generally supports everything Israel does, only pulling the leash when Israel's actions start to get inconvenient.

The late state empire problem the U.S. is facing now is that it's stocked its government with too many true believers to recognize this dynamic. They just support Israel full stop now, no matter what Israel does, no matter if (as Democrats just saw) it costs your party an election. Trump is surrounded by these true believers, but doesn't give a shit about anything himself and only understands self-interest, so where we go from here is up in the air.

That is the question everyone who is protesting in the US right now along with everyone who finds solidarity with them as they protest in their own way in their own lives is shouting into the sky right now in one form or another.

I think this is a step genuinely in the direction of realizing we don't have to die on this hill but yes it is mindshattering how self immolating this whole thing is especially because it hurts the rest of the world so dearly :(