> This is about Israel's national security interests and hegemonic ambitions.

This sums it all up succinctly. Emphasis on the “hegemonic ambitions” part.

Apparently you don't even have to give Americans the neocon foreign policy spin anymore, we generate it ourselves.

To wit, after Maduro was kidnapped and the exact same regime kept in place (minus selling oil to Cuba), and Trump openly said it was to control the oil, most of the reactions were pretending we live in a universe where the US does these things to spread democracy.