@inthehands Agreed, and that's the other thing - israel has nukes and a stated doctrine of using them all in the event of state collapse.
As fucked as it is, I think the us empire is (partially) coddling israel for the same reason it isn't boots on the ground for Ukraine (with the added complication of israel being a colonizer "ally" so it can offer carrots rather than sticks, which also looks and *is* terrible to everyone observing)