Right, my point is that we're most important external input to Israel's decision-making process, not that we depend on them (beyond the political fact that the US electorate broadly supports Israel as an enterprise, and ranks the Gaza war at the bottom of important issues).

Israel was one of the US most important assets in the Middle East. At that time, gas/oil ran the world and it was the energy source. The US is simply stuck with that baggage. Meanwhile China is building solar like there is no tomorrow and essentially creating and monopolizing the new energy source.

The US is really in a bad position now.

I know, we need The Art of the Deal.

As I saw someone else put it, this will probably be studied in decades to come as a case study in "why not to piss off your superpower ally."

"The US does not send troops to fight in Israel's wars. The US just sends money"

That's what Ukraine is begging for.

Luckily Ukraine can focus on something other than "begging" the US now, as the politics got sorted on the US side, for the moment.

True, but while Congress was dithering, Russia bit off more of Ukraine up near Karkiv.