Can US break the stranglehold of Israel alliance?

Two major stories regarding the US and Israel this month represent watershed moments in the history of the relationship between the two countries. The first incident occurred on July 8, when Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and his delegation were detained by armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank. “These hoodlums come in with machine guns — an M4, an American-made machine gun — and they detain us,” Khanna recounted. “They block off the road. And then they call the IDF, and the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans,” he added, referring to the Israeli military.