It is not a bold claim. Israel was from the outset an European colonial project which gained support from the US and Britain to gain a satellite in West Asia, as its unsinkable aircraft carrier/missile platform. The huge amounts of “aid” that has been given to them from its inception should be ample proof (whomever pays for the band picks the music) but US politicians aren’t shy about it either, as with Biden

Were there not an Israel the United States would have to invent an Israel