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    Israel clearly controls the US not the other way around. Israel assigned a Zionist as the US Lebanese ambassador and is actively trying to start a civil war in Lebanon. This is not good long term politics.

    Zionist organisation Betar is currently higher in US legal power than US judges. They are assigning students to deport.

    • If the US stopped existing tomorrow (god willing) Israel would disappear. If Israel were to be destroyed the US would create another. Zionism is a tool of American foreign policy. AIPAC and pro Zionist orgs are comprised of Americans and serve American foreign interests. Israel is a settler colony like Rhodesia, it isn’t the secret mastermind of the global empire. The fact that US judges are being arrested and are of lower status to Betar is not evidence that the power lies in Israel controlling the US. The power lies in Brooklyn, part of the US, and is part of their internal power dynamics.

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      Israel assigned a Zionist as the US Lebanese ambassador and is actively trying to start a civil war in Lebanon.

      This wouldn’t have been possible (at best, it’d be difficult) had the US and the remaining West not continued their unimpeded financial, military, etc… support for the genocidal entity, though. It’s not referred to as the “51st state” or the “unsinkable aircraft carrier” for no reason. All of the other reasons here are in line with the US’ interests anyway, I don’t see how they suggest the U.S. being the “subservient” one.

      The US can order the entity to a “complete cease-fire” on a whim with a single phone call. If that’s not emblematic of the clear-in-place Father-Son relationship, then I don’t know what is.

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        The US can end the genocide with a single phone call. The question you should ask yourself is why it doesn’t. Do you really think this is good policy?

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          I don’t understand, what’s your point? Why would a settler-colonial entity want to stop another settler-colonial entity from continuing to erase an entire population and exert its influence on the region on top of stealing its resources? It doesn’t because it’s not in its current interest to do so.

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      I think this is not as simple as A controls B. There are many groups and individuals active in both countries who influence politics and media. I don’t think anyone centrally controlls them. It is a way more chaotic system than that.

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        This is true. For example Israel does not care about American fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry does not care about Israel. Nor big chicken etc.

        There are many different lobbies, often with completely different interests, which do not conflict with each other.

        What Israel does control however is the American policy regarding Israel and the Middle East. That is where their lobbyists are.

        The only time we see any pushback is for example when Saudi Arabia does not want America to bomb Iran because Iran will destroy the Saudi oil.