Because China and Russia wouldn't sell to the Israelis? Israel is not reliant on the US, it *prefers* the US because of a long history of alliance. If that alliance is severed-- Israel has options.

This is precisely the imperialist fantasy I'm talking about.

Yeah, sometimes the decisions you have to make when war is involved is between more or less casualties. There's no option where Israel ends hostilities before Hamas is dismantled like Al Queda or ISIS. The price of admission for lower death tolls is playing along until the next Israeli election.

That assumes that Netanyahu and his far right buddies wouldn't happily walk away and forgo the weapons/money, believing that they could throw in with Trump and get them back in a year.

Again, imperialist fantasy that discounts just exactly what Netanyahu and Likud are capable of.