Perhaps the perception that Israel controls America is perpetuated to obscure American responsibility for what Israel does, and allows America to escape the blame. From Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org:
Americans who pay attention are critical of Israel for its control not only of US foreign policy but also US domestic policies, such as those regulating speech, and even tenure decisions of Catholic universities. CIA personnel have complained that attempts to rein-in Israeli spying on America have been politically blocked. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in their book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, reveal Israel’s power over America.
It is hard to see it any other way when American universities, such as Harvard, prevent students from protesting Israel’s genocide of Palestine, and when in the middle of the genocide, the US Congress shows its support for the genocide by inviting Israeli prime minister Netanyahu to address Congress and reward his war crimes with 53 standing ovations. How can Washington be any more subservient to Israel than that?
The visible evidence indicates that Israel controls America, not America controls Israel. But there is another view. It is well stated here — https://www.unz.com/mhudson/middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-the-u-s-take-action/ — by Michael Hudson and Richard Wolfe. Gilbert Doctorow shares it.
Hudson and Wolfe are credible witnesses, because they, especially Hudson, participated in the formation of Washington’s policy to use and direct Israel in behalf of US hegemony in the Middle East. Israel is Washington’s proxy against the Muslims, just as Ukrainians are Washington’s proxy against Russia, just as Georgians were when Washington sent them to invade South Ossetia, and just as the British and Europe are by serving Washington’s hegemony at the risk of their own destruction.
They have owned it since 1913 but it didn’t happen overnight.
Lenders are always needed when you are forming up a republic that you can’t keep.
Some of The Founders had interesting quotes about the skullcaps as did Schopenhauer.
(winks)
Varied and interesting criminal vices and enterprises came with the indispensable small hat enrichment.
They are still with us.
Breaking from Vomitory:
Into Winter Through Sorrow