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This is just another incident in a long list that goes back decades of Israel getting carte blanche to do whatever they want to the US with little to no repercussion. The most famous probably being USS Liberty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident)

Why would Israel be allowed to do whatever they want?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs...

Really? Have you actually read the Wikipedia page you're referring to?

50 years ago during a full scale war with all surrounding countries, Israel accidentally (as determined by US investigation) hit a "spy-ship" near Egypt (one if the countries participating in the war).

Israel subsequenly paid around 70 million $ in compensation for the families.

Everyone knows already nothing will happen, they will get slap on the wrist as usual and show goes on.

Or the smartest move. They probably own more politicians than the NRA, the pharma ind, and and the aerospace ind combined.

and the one entity that give it wagons of usd.