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This seems to be slow release...
One of my fav' stories on the Isl/US relationship comes from before the recognizing of new government. In 1947, Harry Truman was broke and badly behind in the polls to NY'er T.Dewey. The Pres' who achieved the office due to the death of FDR was soon in receipt of $Two Million cash, real money in those days. It was delivered by an American Zionist. HST won a squeaker. Was the cash a difference maker? Probably.

Supposedly Republican Douglas C. Dillon (not his real family name) and a friend of Jack Kennedy told JFK at some point, who told it to friend Gore Vidal who wrote about it. I tend not to believe it though I hope it's true. Just to imagine Truman looking at a bag full of 100 dollar bills as the country was still feeling the effects of war and depression is something to contemplate. So is Gen. George Marshall who held two cabinet po's for Truman, threatening to resign if Truman rec' Israel. Truman didn't agree with his Sec. of State and the rest is history. Isl was soon at war in 1948 and for all intents, ever since. After Isl getting thrown out of the Suez by Eisenhower'56, they went full bore into their next project which was nuclear weapons development which they got through France's aid building a reactor and the theft of weapons grade uranium from a Pittsburgh plant.
Having Israel as a key ally -they aren't- has been a burden. Their Russian, N.African, E.Europe population had very little in common with post-war America. Kennedy's death was an important factor in Israel's expansionist planning. LBJ was a Zionist. If all this leads to a massacre in the prison camp known as Gaza it will change Isl relationship with the world including the US. In spite of their historical relationship based on Money.

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About 15 months ago -give or take a few- a group of Democrats wrote Biden about a West Bank murder of a long-time Pal/Am journalist. They were joined by two Independents. I don't believe any Repub., were involved.
I was disappointed to find that a pol I had supported in the past had not joined his colleagues (in signing the letter). Though not hearing about why, it became apparent to me that this person had presidential aspirations depending on Biden's plans and didn't want to disturb anyone finding the questioning of the IDF, morally objectionable.

Shireen A.Akleh. was wearing a blue Press vest and helmet for Identification and possibly for protection though I'm not sure they could have helped. While covering a protest, Akleh was hit from a shot from a sniper in a vehicle of some kind, about 80 yards away. The bullet entered the back of her head near her ear, ripped through her skull and brain and had an exit wound from her cheek/face. The bullet was recovered. I consider this an assassination of a personality the Israelis didn't want around. Given an opportunity to rid the area of her, they did.
Obviously I would have had concerns about this had Akleh been Islamic. But for the record she was a Christian. And should not have died on this day.