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.”

  • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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      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.