Polls indicate half of US voters believe Israel is committing genocide and about 60% oppose further military aid. Israeli leadership has relied on consistent US backing throughout the Gaza war, with differing tones from the Biden and Trump administrations. US military assistance and weapons have contributed to a reported death toll exceeding 63,000 in Gaza. The United States uses its UN Security Council veto to block ceasefire demands and has supported Israel in international legal venues while sanctioning some ICC members. Rights groups accuse the United States of potential complicity and call for an end to support. Western allies' bonds with Israel appear frayed and could weaken without continued US backing.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been able to rely on the United States' absolute backing throughout his country's war on Gaza. While the administration of former US President Joe Biden may have occasionally expressed discomfort over the crises it was enabling in Gaza, the Donald Trump administration has yet to exhibit similar qualms, even going so far in February as to suggest that all of Gaza's population be ethnically cleansed.
US support has been vital to Israel's war machine, providing weapons that helped Israel kill more than 63,000 people in Gaza. Diplomatically, it uses its veto on the UN Security Council to block demands for a ceasefire in Gaza, despite the mounting death toll. It also supported Israel in the International Court of Justice, where Israel is accused of genocide, and sanctioned International Criminal Court members who issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes.
The US' potential complicity in what many states and agencies recognise as a genocide has been called out by rights groups, who call on it to halt its support for Israel. But what if it did? What would happen if the US ended all support for Israel tomorrow? We asked four experts what they think: Hamze Attar, a defence analyst; Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political scientist;
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