The United States has a “decades-long commitment to Israel’s security,” US Department of State spokesman Matthew Miller said on Monday. Miller was responding to a question during a press conference about why the US had approved new arms deliveries to Israel while also criticizing Israel’s military action in Gaza. Israel was surrounded by “entities that are sworn to its destruction,” such as Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah, Miller said. “We believe Israel has every right to defend itself against those opponents, and we to that end have a longstanding security relationship with them where we provide t…