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It's because behind both parties is a unified force known as the military industrial complex, which loves any excuse to make and sell weapons.
Say our government decides to send 100 million dollars in military aid to another country. Most, if not all, of that 100 million is sent as physical armaments rather than actual currency. The government gives companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, etc the actual money for this aid effort, and their products (weapons of war) are what is sent along as aid.
As it turns out, companies like the aforementioned love any excuse to sell more weapons, and carry large amounts of sway with politicians on both sides of the aisle, so they pressure those sales to continue.
That, and there's groups like AIPAC that'll do their best to crush any politician who's not sufficiently deferential to the apartheid regime.
Incidentally, Biden once bragged about going to more AIPAC events than any other politician in Washington.
I'm rewatching Oliver Stone's JFK from 1991 .... and when you listen to Costner's monologue from the real life Jim Garrison explaining the motivation of why JFK was assassinated and eliminated, the Military Industrial Complex was at the top of the list.
Just the actions of what happened the day after the assassination speaks volumes ... the new president Lyndon Johnson stepped back JFK's original plans to withdraw from Vietnam and made promises to his military that they would continue the war.
They didn't just kill a president in 1963, they signed the death warrant for two hundred thousand American soldiers and a million Vietnamese.
JFK also wanted to shut down the CIA and was critical of Israel.
As a companion piece to that great film witch doesn't even scratch the surface of the tragedy in 1963, I urge you to read or listen to the the book "LBJ - Mastermind of the JFK Assassination" by Phillip F Nelson.
It's absolutely fascinating and brings up more than a few irrefutable points. Seriously, give it a read or listen. (I personally prefer the audiobook).
It's 27 hrs long...
Not quite any excuse though. The world is full of conflicts, we still get a choice about which ones we're involved in, and on which side. If the M-I complex wants to build weapons, build them for Ukraine and nobody in the west will object. Build them to stop genocides, of which we still have multiple options. We love to build and sell weapons, yes, but we also usually make an effort to provide a moral veneer over it. Israel's moral veneer has long vanished, and yet we still choose to be on that side of the conflict. That is what I don't understand.