"Does the tail wag the dog?

[draljones@mastodon.social]

"Does the tail wag the dog? The truth is the dog & the tail are wagging each other".

Israel is Washington’s most favoured client state. It has to operate within ME “security” parameters laid down by the US.

At the same time, Israel influences "those parameters in its own interests, chiefly by shaping military, political & cultural discourse in the US through the many levers available to it."

Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture

Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other.

(www.jonathan-cook.net)

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