updated as of yesterday (July 21): based on a statistical model developed by a prestigious medical journal called The Lancet, Israel has killed roughly 434,800 people in Gaza since the country’s military started to attack the territory on 8 October 2023. That’s 20.7% of Gaza’s entire pre-conflict population dead. Over half are women and children.
Israel is being supplied by the US and gets intelligence and sometimes direct military assistance from the US, but it can’t negate being a small country with a small population. It’s a limited vessel, one which can be broken much more easily than the US itself can be.
It also knows this and, while it also does lots of reckless things, it still is able to heel at least momentarily now and then when the US actually tells it to. It’s not just all gas every second, just most of the time.
The US absolutely can tell it to heel, and the US absolutely won’t tell it to heel.