Why do Americans tolerate letting Israel dictate our Israel policy?

[Swede Atlanta]

29. It is actually very simple...we are Israel's "bitch"

The world felt bad after millions of Jews were cooked in the Holocaust. So the U.N. created Israel out of whole cloth using land that had been inhabited, farmed, etc. by Arabs/ Palestinians for years.

When this happened Palestinians were thrown off their land and into camps (Jews shouldn't like the idea of camps since millions of their kind were put there by Hitler). The Palestinians languished with no jobs, no hope, no opportunity. A resistance movement grew into the PLO. Hamas is in many ways the progeny of the PLO.

Back to U.S. policy. In the heyday of the Cold War, Egypt was a Russian proxy. So we continuously saw Israel as our one ally in the region. We have always supported them, regardless of their bad acts, because of a genuine belief the Jewish people deserve a homeland and for purely selfish influence reasons.

This is augmented by a strong Jewish/Israeli lobby in Washington that owns pretty much everyone in Congress and all Presidents. Whatever Israel wants it gets. Americans are paying to kill Palestinian children. I hope you think that is a good use of your taxpayer dollars. I would rather that be spent on fixing some bridges and roads here.

Oh and don't forget that within the Republican party there is a "sincerely held religious belief" that once Israel rebuilds the illusive "temple" Jebus will come back and rapture up the earth.

That is their motivation for supporting the Jews killing innocent civilians in Gaza. Nothing complex about it.