Trump cut off contact with Netanyahu: Israeli media
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Sources say the US president seems to have distanced himself from the Israeli premier over "manipulation" claims.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29815074

“Israel’s” Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly spoke “with his usual arrogance” to senior Republican officials, detailing what US President Donald Trump “must do", according to Yanir Cozin, a diplomatic correspondent for Israeli Army Radio, who cited a senior Israeli official.

However, Dermer’s approach appears to have backfired. Trump’s inner circle reportedly told him that “Netanyahu is manipulating the American president,” a characterization that did not sit well with Trump.

The cited official noted that “Trump hates nothing more than appearing to be manipulated.”

  • TrippyFocus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s not so much just that the US leaders are idiots (they are), it’s that many of them will prioritize their own personal enrichment from bribery lobbying from AIPAC. That’s the reason so many of them will continue to support Israel.

    Also when you basically need to be rich or useful to the rich to afford to run for congress going against AIPAC is pretty much a death sentence for your campaign. That also filters out potential dissent.

    Goes to show that capitalism will always eventually run into problems since it will prioritize short term profits over everything.

    • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      it’s that many of them will prioritize their own personal enrichment from bribery lobbying from AIPAC

      I think you overestimate how much money AIPAC contributes. Most of their contributions are in like, the thousands of dollars not tens or hundreds of thousands. I think you’re correct that they fear backlash from AIPAC, but I think they’re wrong about how dangerous that backlash actually is.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        4 days ago

        It’s the largest single lobby in US politics, largely for imperialist reasons, and it overlaps with many other powerful lobbies. Since 9/11, the oil industry amd the weapons industry and the fundamentalists have all coalesced around American-Israeli relations as a salient.

        There’s a bunch of very good reasons why it’s extremely rare for anyone in the last 50 years to have made it into state or national office on an explicitly pro-Palestine platform.