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Hate to break it to you, but nearly twice as many Americans think we are providing the right amount of assistance, or should be providing more to Israel, than think we should be providing less in regards to their war. That is the direction of public pressure.
The primary mover isn't public pressure, but the US Empire's economic interests. Support for Israel is both lucrative for the Military Industrial Complex, and helps the US exert power in the region, securing the Petro-Dollar. This is how the US maintains financial supremacy, and hyper-exploits the Global South through brutal Imperialist IMF loans that it can write in its favor.
And you think the average American doesn't enjoy being a beneficiary of that system?
Are we really a beneficiary? All the economic gains seem to only be realized at the top because the owner class has perfected the art of paying us the absolute minimum we need to survive.
An excellent question, one of the few in this thread. Not really. But as long as our gas is percieved to be less expensive than most of the rest of the world, and the well paying jobs it creates to build bombs and planes and such continue to exist, it will continue be viewed as beneficial.
You are hurting the owner class. Stop!
That's a more complicated question, but it's besides the point: the mechanisms the parties move by are the mechanisms that keep themselves in power, and that's appealing to their donors.