Does Israel control U.S., or U.S. control Israel?

30 June 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

On June 29th, Reuters and Yahoo News headlined “Court cancels Israel PM Netanyahu's trial hearings this week”, and reported that

The Jerusalem District Court cancelled this week's hearings in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long-running corruption trial, accepting a request the Israeli leader made citing classified diplomatic and security grounds.

It was unclear whether a social media post by U.S. President Donald Trump influenced the court's decision. Trump suggested the trial could interfere with Netanyahu’s ability to join negotiations with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran.

The ruling, seen by Reuters, said that new reasons provided by Netanyahu, the head of Israel's spy agency Mossad and the military intelligence chief justified cancelling the hearings.

Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust - all of which he denies. He has cast the trial against him as an orchestrated left-wing witch-hunt meant to topple a democratically elected right-wing leader.

On Friday, the court rejected a request by Netanyahu to delay his testimony for the next two weeks because of diplomatic and security matters following the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran, which ended last Tuesday.

He was due to take the stand on Monday for cross-examination.

"It is INSANITY doing what the out-of-control prosecutors are doing to Bibi Netanyahu," Trump said in a Truth Social post. He said Washington, having given billions of dollars worth of aid to Israel, was not going to "stand for this".

Here were the top (most-liked) reader-comments to it:

Another windmill
6 hours ago
Trump also had a lawsuit in which his lawyers stated that the lawsuit was interfering with his ability to campaign and he wanted to lawsuit quashed.
"This lawsuit specifically focuses on the argument that the legal actions taken against Trump in New York are a form of "election interference" by limiting his ability to campaign. " Seems like he's teaching BiBi how to stay out of jail.
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michael
5 hours ago
Too big to fail has now become too powerful to prosecute.
This is going to lead to MAJOR problems.
Why should ANYONE obey the law if our leaders are not held accountable?
NO one, ESPECIALLY the holders of high office, is above the law.
If they do the crime, they MUST do the time
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The public are obviously correct to be outraged by this news, but in a political news-story, what is actually the most important thing in it is not what it shows about the persons in it (i.e., here: Netanyahu, and Trump), but instead what it shows about the Government(s) (in this case, two of them) in it, because replacing a person is minuscule compared to replacing a Government. For example, if Netanyahu becomes replaced, then Israel’s Government will change only marginally if at all, because all of his likely susccessors are equally as racist-fascist-supremacist-imperialist as Netanyahu is. It would be like the change from Biden to Trump, and from Trump to Biden.

The few individuals who actually control a dictatorship might (and commonly DO) control each one of its major political Parties, but that doesn’t make it NOT a dictatorship — DOESN’T turn it into a democracy. The public are confused about this, because the controllers (and their ‘news’-media) present politics as-if it were a football game, which has no ethical issues between the two contending sides, but ONLY personal (“us” versus “them” — e.g.: Democrats versus Republicans) issues; and, so, the controllers use their Parties to distract the public away from what is ACTUALLY important — which ARE the actual ETHICAL issues. This distraction gives the controllers the power to manipulate the public politically, by playing upon their personal prejudices so that the public think that such political theater IS the important reality, though it is actually distractionary from the REAL “Who wins, and who loses?”, such that the controllers win, and the public (via their taxes, body-bags, etc., and the rotten Governmental health, education, and welfare services they receive) lose. Typically, it producers a billionaires-ONLY Government — the billionaires as the puppeteers (the actual controllers), and their puppets as the politicians who get s‘elected’ BY the billionaires (the political megadonors) to (contest against each other for) public offices. So, this mere political theater doesn’t mean that the public officials REPRESENT the public: they represent instead actually their megadonors — the controllers.

That’s the reality in national politics, at least throughout the U.S. empire.

INTERNATIONALLY, however, there is also the very real question of which Government controls which OTHER Government; and perhaps the biggest question of all is: Does Israel control U.S., or U.S. control Israel? This Reuters-Yahoo news-report certainly presents that question, though does NOT answer it. My 22 June 2025 “How Israel Owns the U.S. Government” presents evidences that Israel’s Government actually controls America’s Government, and that it has effectively done so ever since JFK was assassinated. Until recently, I had thought that America controls Israel; but, now, the accumulated weight of the relevant evidences has, at least tentatively, persuaded me of the reverse. Of course, if my present theory about this is correct, then, currently, Trump is Netanyahu’s slave: Trump is serving Netanyahu by demanding "It is INSANITY doing what the out-of-control prosecutors are doing to Bibi Netanyahu. … We are not going to stand for this.” Israel’s Government’s obeying that seeming command from Trump, which is presented as a command to Israel, is actually Netanyahu’s demanding, and Trump’s complying with Netanyahu’s command, that Netanyahu MUST NOT testify on June 30th. It is pure theater, to deceive the gulls.

But, in either case, neither country is any sort of authentic democracy (such as the commenters seem implicitly to believe to be the case). It’s instead an aristocracy of wealth. If Israel controls America, then Israel’s billionaires control the far larger number and wealth of America’s billionaires. That doesn’t appear likely to me, but it nonetheless does appear likely to be so: Netanyahu controls Trump in this instance. (Ever since LBJ, every U.S. President HAS been a slave to Israel.)

And, so, regardless of which theory is correct here, this news-report displays a perfect example of skillful political con-artists deceiving their respective publics, in accord with their respective megadonors’ desires, to keep both politicians in power — or actually, as puppets of the actual respective puppeteers.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.