‘The war needs to end’: is the US right turning on Israel?

<p>Longstanding ties between US conservatives and Israel face strain as war’s toll and internal rifts reshape the right</p><p>As the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</a> nears its two-year mark, and as images of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/24/hamas-sends-ceasefire-proposal-to-israel-as-starvation-spreads-in-gaza">starving</a> people and utter devastation flood social media, cracks seem to be emerging in the American right’s typically iron-clad support for Israel.</p><p>The US continues to support Israel diplomatically and militarily, and last Thursday pulled out of peace negotiations that it accused Hamas of sabotaging. And in the US Congress, only two Republicans <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/only-6-vote-for-house-legislation-to-nix-500m-in-military-funding-to-israel/">voted</a> for a recent amendment that would have pulled funding for missile defense systems for Israel.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/israel-gaza-war-united-states-right">Continue reading...</a>