Here's why.
The billionaires can only enjoy their immense wealth and power and privilege as long as our society remains one based on class inequality. And since most people do not like class inequality, and would abolish it if they could, the billionaires need to control ordinary people. The most effective way the American ruling class has controlled ordinary people and made them obey it (however grudgingly) is by making them fear some foreign enemy and making them believe that their ruling class is defending them from that enemy. This is what an Orwellian war of social control does. It's how the rich control "We the People."
The American upper/ruling class has been controlling Americans with Orwellian wars of social control for a very long time. It began with the Native Americans made to be the bogeyman enemy. The European colonialist upper-class rulers did this by deciding to ethnicly cleanse the Native Americans instead of treating them as the sovereign nations in North America that they actually were, the way reasonable visitors from abroad would normally treat a nation they were visiting or even wishing immigrate to. Ordinary Europeans arriving in North America, on the contrary, when not under the control of their upper-class rulers, frequently "went native" with no intention of carrying out ethnic cleansing, as I discuss here.
Some of us living today remember the recent bogeyman enemy--Communists. I say "bogeyman" because the fact is that the American ruling class secretly provided enormous amounts of industrial and military technology and equipment to the Soviet Union from the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution straight through the Cold War, as I discuss here. The U.S. ruling class needed a bogeyman enemy to make Americans accept (grudgingly) a military-industrial complex sucking social wealth away from things like better schools and depositing it instead into the pockets of the major owners of weapons manufacturers. U.S. rulers also needed a bogeyman enemy to use as a pretext for invading nations and/or overthrowing their rulers whenever Big Money desired.
As we all know, the Communists very rudely decided to stop playing the game and forced U.S. rulers to come up with a new bogeyman enemy. (Now you know what the Soviet Union's last Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev, meant when, as the Soviet Union was abolishing its communist self, he told American diplomats, "I will do something very terrible to you America--I am going to take away your enemy.")
And as we know, President G.W. Bush, acting on behalf of the American ruling class, gave the honor of being the new bogeyman enemy to Muslims, declaring Muslim Terrorism to be the enemy of the new all-encompassing War on Terror--an Orwellian war of social control if ever there was one!
But an Orwellian war of social control, to be effective, requires a credible enemy, one that is scary and about which the necessary lies can be persuasively told in the Western media. The Israeli government, for its own reasons, just so happens to create exactly such a bogeyman enemy: Palestinians and all of the Muslims and Arabs who identify with and support them. Israel creates this bogeyman enemy with its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The ethnic cleansing makes the Palestinians very angry, naturally. Israeli rulers are experts at making their Jewish population believe falsely that the anger is anti-Semitism and that the ethnic cleansing is a necessary defensive move in response to that anti-Semitic anger and related violence. (Another example of reversing cause and effect.)
Long before the War on Terror, the Israeli ruling class used the bogeyman enemy of Palestinian terrorism to control its Jewish population. But the anti-democratic Arab/Muslim rulers of the Middle East also benefited from Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. How?
That ethnic cleansing polarized the region along non-class lines: Israel (Jewish) versus anti-Israel (Muslim/Arab). Without this polarization, the Middle Eastern rulers feared that the polarization would revert to the one reflecting the actual conflict inside the Middle Eastern nations, namely between ordinary people versus the rich ruling elites who oppressed them. This had to be avoided because it could lead to democratic revolutions. The U.S. rulers shared the same fear, because they had cozy oil (etc.) deals with the Middle Eastern elites and didn't want popular democratic movements to turn the tables and cause the natural resources of the region to be used to benefit ordinary people instead of the likes of the Saudi Royal family and American Big Oil companies.
Indeed, the Arab rulers even wanted the United States to make sure that Israel was militarily armed to the teeth and clearly undefeatable. Why? Because this gave the Arab rulers the perfect situation for control of their own populations: on the one hand they could rhetorically denounce Israel and pose as champions of the Palestinians to gain support from their own people, while on the other hand they could point to the overwhelming military strength of Israel as the perfect excuse for not actually waging a serious war against Israel to end its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. I discuss how this played out in Saudi Arabia here.
This explains why a Saudi prince, Al-Waleed Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, is the second largest shareholder(at least he owns 5%) in the over-the-top pro-Israel Fox News parent company, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corporation. And it explains why the Saudi billionaires (back when the price of oil was much higher than today and they were swimming in petro-dollars) did not use any of that money to destroy the Israel lobby, as they surely could have by telling the American public the truth about the Israeli ruling class (and don't tell me that their failure to do this was due to their being afraid of being called anti-Semitic!!)
Now that the War on Terror is the #1 strategy of social control for the United States ruling class, it is a no-brainer for the American billionaires (at least for their smart advisors) to keep Israel in business using ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make sure Muslims/Arabs remain the credible, scary, angry and sometimes violent bogeymen enemy that the War on Terror requires. The War on Terror needs an enemy that can make credible the Big Lie that Muslims in general are irrationally anti-Semitic and hate Israel (and its U.S. gallant defender) and want to kill us all because they hate our freedom (or some such nonsense). Israel does the job! American billionaires have no intention of "killing the goose that lays the golden egg."
The U.S. foreign policy of supporting Israel is thus a policy that enormously benefits the American ruling class--Jewish and non-Jewish alike. Obviously, the people who have not only a real-politic reason for supporting Israel but also an emotional and sentimental one; i.e., who are the most eager to get involved in implementing U.S. support for Israel, are the American Jews (who often have Israeli citizenship also) aiming to rise up in the American social hierarchy. THIS is why there are so many Jews in the Executive branch of government dealing with the U.S. Middle East foreign policy. The ruling class's need for supporting Israel is the CAUSE, and the high prevalence of Jews in implementing that policy is the EFFECT, not the other way around as the "tail-wags-dog"-ers mistakenly believe.
Likewise, the reason the Israel lobby is powerful and has so much support from American politicians is because the American ruling class WANTS it to be powerful; it uses the lobby to punish any aspiring politician who might wander off the approved path and say something critical about Israel's ethnic cleansing. The fact that the entire U.S. ruling class wants Congress to be pro-Israel is the CAUSE, and the fact that virtually all its members are pro-Israel is the EFFECT, not the other way around. As shown above, if any billionaires wanted to destroy the Israel lobby they could, and would, Congress be damned! They simply don't want to. They have no reason to. The lobby is doing their bidding. And Congress is just the way they like it.
The Dog That Didn't BarkThe fact that not a single American billionaire has lifted a finger ("barked") to destroy the Israel lobby--even though they could easily do so by just telling the public the sordid truth about Israel's ruling class--is the dog that didn't bark(the meaning of which is discussed here if you don't already know it.) There is no way that the "tail-wags-dog" theory can persuasively explain this dog not barking. The failure of this dog to bark proves that the "tail wags dog" theory is false. I challenge any advocate of "tail wags dog" to come up with a half-way plausible explanation for why no American billionaire uses their ability to destroy the Israel lobby when they are supposedly being "wagged" by it against their will.
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