US intelligence, software, bombs, guns, tanks, aircraft, fuel and bulldozers all found a small resting point in the form of the Trump-demanded ceasefire in Gaza.  Yes, US taxpayers have funded, fueled, supported and provided political cover to Israel for long before the past 500 days.  In fact, the United States has done this every single day since the very first day of the LBJ administration in 1963.  Those who understand that history cannot also claim to be appalled at the destruction visited on a tiny strip of beachfront property in the name of Zionist genocidal land and resource grab.  Washington's knee jerk apologetics for the Zionist state are habitual; it's muscle memory for the United States at this point.

Israel as a state can do no wrong, even when it directly attacks American ships, assassinates peacemakers and negotiators, lies directly to the faces of the US Congress and US Presidents, steals technology, conducts covert influence and blackmail operations inside the United States, and defrauds the US taxpayer.  Israel's government, society and state are not self-sustaining, certainly not symbiotic with the rest of the world.  The way of the modern Zionist state is land theft and genocide, with rights to land and targets of genocide assigned through an ethnic and religious caste system that only one party has accepted.

Modern Israel faces an impossible conundrum.  Can there exist a free market in ideas, in faith, in mobility, in property – can there be freedom at all – when citizens are strictly accounted for, managed and utilized via state constructed labels of religion, ethnicity, and social credit?  Israel's discordant system mimics the dysfunctional political system of Lebanon – itself a colonial census-driven vestige that allocates political power based on single census of tribe and faith from three generations ago.  Israel's murderous rage and internal terror didn't mirror the hated Assad regime, which like the other Ba'ath dictator Saddam Hussein, made a point to protect ethnic and religious minorities.  But Tel Aviv today, and Israel's own terrorist origin story does parallel the political miracle that transformed Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and ISIS masked bandits into well-dressed cosmopolitan gangsters overnight.