The 'Israel controls America' myth has a long history - and an antisemitic foundation - opinion

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Only with the Jewish state does the far smaller and weaker partner become the “master” and the superpower become the “dog.” ...

When Britain followed America into Iraq in 2003, the British press had a word for Tony Blair: “poodle.” The junior partner, the logic ran, trotted after the superpower. Nobody in London or Washington suggested Blair had seized control of the Pentagon or of George W. Bush.Twenty-three years later, America and Israel went to war against Iran together, and a loud faction of the American Right reached the opposite conclusion about the junior partner. Tucker Carlson called it “Israel’s war” and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a “hammerlock” over the American government. Since the midterms, the populist post-mortems have hardened that line into doctrine.

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