https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USzVCWzh10
Would Israel have done this if US had currently ok relations with China, Russia? If US didn't have so much political disunity (basically contention and segregation only)? If US's main issue wasn't immigration but rather had some confidence in itself as a coherent nation? If there wasn't a risk of recession? Or if US had some kind of at least possible relationship with Iran and other basically-enemy nations? ... However, this might just be the issue needed to unify or to ‘unify’ under the Democrats.
Israel's unpopularity is the US's unpopularity.
When you have a kid in the school who's tied to some of your group by existing relationships, and he goes around actively causing problems and picking fights, depending on his friends, who are also your friends, to join the fight with him.