I think some people like the tail-wags-dog theory because, unlike the truth, it is comforting. Here's what I mean. The truth is uncomforting because it means that the problem is the entire American ruling class (Jewish or not), rather than just a foreign lobby and American Jews aligned with it. The tail-wags-dog theory says that the non-Jewish billionaires of the United States are harmed by U.S. support for Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and are thus at least potential allies in our effort to end U.S. support of it. That's a comforting thought (who doesn't want to have rich powerful allies?); so comforting that it induces a willingness even to believe that a tail can wag a dog.
The fact is, however, that the entire ruling class CAN be removed from power. That's what my books are about. If we really want to help the Palestinians abolish the ethnic-cleansing project they suffer under, the best thing Americans can do is to build a movement that aims to remove the American ruling plutocracy (all of it!) from power. Such a movement is strengthened by explaining to Americans how the plutocracy's support for Israel has nothing to do with any concern for ordinary Jews or coercion by the Israel lobby, and everything to do with controlling and oppressing ordinary Americans and ordinary people in the Middle East.
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