The American mainstream media seems confident that viewers are emotionally invested in the pillage of Israel and impending response to the same. Likewise, it is a topic of much chatter among anyone who routinely opines online.
Regardless of the novelty and spectacle of the attack, the hype in American media seems artificial, to me. Firstly the difference in nature of the attack is not implicitly resonant in a culture which faces the threat of mass shootings all the time, and has rendered honest discussion of violent crime against “whites” impossible, as America has. (Whereas to at least a small extent the idea of a sudden public suicide-bombing still perhaps terrifies.) Second, however reliably our politicians on the federal stage must swear to consider Israel’s interests to be our own, it’s not a topic that animates much interest or discussion.1 As a final point, Israel is not Ukraine in terms of Trump. Ukraine symbolically represents a foe of Trump. Since Trump openly supported Israel, it is awkward at this point, or as I say artificial, for the Biden-era media to adopt a narrative in which the New Thing to care about is Israel. This is a retcon too far.
So then, from an American media consumer perspective, why wouldn’t this just be another reboot of the perennially not very popular news drama Israel/Palestine©? Americans at this point have had decades of practice tuning this conflict out.
Hence I turn to my readers, since my own instinct of what will happen is so out of sync with the news. The question here is not about should, but about will. What, based on your actual, organic social interactions over the last few days, would you guess the future holds? Assuming Israel goes to war, seeks to finish the project of 1948 and purge their frontier of the savage — fine. But is the US going to do anything substantively different from the status quo of supporting Israel financially and geopolitically?
(The last option refers to an argument I have encountered in which any direct US involvement merely takes the highest use of force options off of the table for Israel, which sounds like a good point.)
The argument I have seen here is that conservative American politicians vent their instinct for nationalism and ethnic patriotism into Israel because they aren’t allowed to express any such sentiments regarding the US.
Congress is bought and paid for by AIPAC. They will support their pay masters. The Koolaid hair NWO NPC minions will require install the new OS update, cheer for Israel?? They will have to switch off the support decolonization, free Palestine subroutine. The narrative cognitive dissonance will be fierce.
Me, “not my circus, not my monkeys” The Canaanites and the Jews have been killing each other over that sandy corner of the world for 5,000 years. Both sides have a god that says "its yours, go take it" Getting in the middle of that is a whole lot of stupid.
It all depends on what happens when Israel marches into Gaza. If the wider war happens, then who or what will support Israel with missiles in the air and boots on the ground? Hard to say. If it is confined to fighting with Hamas then I picked your fourth option. The Israelis will handle that themselves. Their intention is to seize full control of Gaza and wipe out Hamas without triggering a wider war. That is why they let this happen. With so many methods of ingress it just isn't credible that they all snuck through without sufficient early warning to nix the whole thing.