When something damaging occurs people, due to their natural tendency, will go through what happened. They analyze it and try to understand ways they could avoid the damage so that in the future they can protect themselves. The bigger the damage is, the deeper the dissection will be. For example, a global recession ignites tonnes of scientific research to understand what went wrong. The same is true about human catastrophes. Concerning the Israel/Palestine conflict, the Gaza war will most probably initiate a domino. The Gaza war wasn’t the first time international laws were ignored. People around the world will dig deeper, conflict after conflict, illegal activity after illegal activities that can be traced back to past decades. The worst mistake for Isrtael’s hardliners was to place the conflict in such a spotlight. For them, it would be much wiser to quietly expand illegal settlements over decades.
The international community going through the domino of breaking international laws is beneficial for the two-state solution because the global community will develop mechanisms to avoid such deficiencies in the future to ensure the peace plan will be sustainable. However, the domino process is damaging for the US. Its stance on the recent UN Security Council resolution makes things much worse. The US should try to minimize the damage to its reputation and this is the best opportunity to do that. Providing weapons to Netanyahu unconditionally has already ignited fierce criticism over the US involvement in the conflict. The opportunity for the US has not gone yet.