If the US straight up turns on Israel, they can just call some other country and be like “hey, wanna be our friend? We got all this American tech you can examine, trade you for working missile platforms!”
They will also be like “oh, you know all that spying we do for you and all that spyware we develop for you and all those hacking devices we’ve come up with? Well, no more for you!”
Among the more obvious problems presented there, do you think, for example, the State Department wants to get into a grudge match with the CIA? That the NSA wants to lose updated capabilities against the next generation of tech? That the Army wants it known how to jam their weapons platforms?
They made their bed with Israel and they didn’t hold their feet to the fire when they acted like an apartheid state 70 years ago, and now they’re in too deep to change course.
So the fact that you’re seeing any criticism at all means Israel’s actions are so egregious, so obvious, and so well know that even a blackmailed superpower is like “ok maybe we gotta consider the optics here”. THAT is why so many people are saying this is huge.