I don’t think they put that much thought into it, IMO. It was the Israelis that actually dropped the bombs, wasn’t it? They do that shit just because they hate Arabs, I don’t think they care so much about the midterms. They still believe there’s no way they’ll lose the support of Congress, no matter what public opinion in the states is. They’ve got a free pass to murder whoever they want, and they’ve had that pass ever since they attacked and jammed the communications of a US warship that was looking a little too closely at what they were doing.