Blowing up your own ammnition by accident and blaming the Spanish?
ADDENDUM: Clarification for those up|down voting like a yo-yo:
On February 15, 1898, the American battleship Maine exploded while sitting in the Havana harbor, killing two officers and 250 enlisted men.
Fourteen of the injured later died, bringing the death toll to 266.
A naval board of inquiry concluded that the blast was caused by a mine placed outside the ship.
Release of the board’s report led many to accuse Spain of sabotage, helping to build public support for war.
Subsequent studies, including one published in 1976 and later reissued in 1995, determined that the ship was destroyed from the inside, when burning coal in a bunker triggered an explosion in an adjacent space that contained ammunition.
Game-theoretically the US wouldn't want to drop support for Israel in response to attacks on shipping-- that would just result more in attacks on shipping by any country in the world that wants to force the US to do something. If the US wanted to drop Israel, they would only do so after a years-long bombing campaign that terrorized and depopulated Yemen, to make it clear that the US cannot be blackmailed into dropping allies.
And yes, obviously, the US would do this entirely with conventional weapons. They've got eighty years of experience in crushing the third world under their boot with regular TNT bombs, after all, with no need for nukes.
You said this to a few people, and you’re not wrong but i also don’t care? This should be an issue we can resolve without really getting into the politics of their belief systems. Secure shipping channels, it’s been the MO of modern economies for a hundred years or more at least.
I’m petty sure they do not give a shit about making consumerism harder for Americans. In fact it’s probably a bonus.