Does anyone with some historical perspective understand why the USA seems so beholden to Israel?

* A key military regional partner? Though so are the Brit’s and nobody finds it hard to give them a tough time?

* lobbyists and political sponsors? - Energy has them too and we flip back forward on giving them what they want

* The Jewish bloc in senate/congress? - a good number of them are progressive, so they don’t all seem always supportive of Israel?

* The Jewish vote? It’s just a few percent?

* Promises (driven by guilt?) after WW2?

* something else?

It’s a serious question. Israel’s reputation must be massively down versus 2 years ago. It has damaged their reputation big time among “normal people” which isn’t fair for many Jewish and Israelis. It might be better for them if we weren’t always so automatically supportive?