Israeli and Zionist influence in the USA is a purposeful choice of the American government. It allows the American government to circumvent many domestic and international laws by allowing Israeli firms to do the spying and dirty work for them. Israel is essentially a rogue state that is entirely controlled by the American intelligence apparatus (and therefore, American capital). This has created a feedback loop of constantly reinforcing settler colonialism and American economic extraction of the Middle East. If America withdrew support to Israel, this feedback loop would cease and Israel would be greatly diminished or completely collapse.

Saying Israel controls America is simply wrong, stop saying this. I will remove your post. ✌️

edit: altered title for clarification and to avoid nonsensical semantic arguments

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

The declining empire faces two choices - peacefully decline over a long period or violently delay collapse until it is impossible.

What Israel has been doing is violently delaying the collapse of the empire, and they have been successful in the short-term even if the long-term won't be sustainable: Hezbollah was crippled by the pager terror attack, Assad fled Syria and they're in the process of turning it into another basket case like Libya, and Hamas's capacity to strike Israel has been degraded to nothing.

For now, Israel has reasserted its (and the US's) regional dominance. They had to demonstrate that their borders are secure because Israel's borders are also the US's borders, and this is directly connected to why the US is in the process of passifying its own border and deploying its own ethnic cleansing campaign that mirrors Israel. Israel bombing all of its neighbors was actually prelude to the US bombing boats in the Caribbean and preparing for war with Venezuela, and probably the rest of Latin America.

That's why it's useful to think of them as the same entity, Israel's behavior over the last two years is mirrored in the US's own behavior over the past year. The empire is reconfiguring itself in its decline, both heads of the snake are behaving the same.