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Does Israel control the US or the US control Israel? Serious question for those inclined to answer it.
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Depends what you mean by "control" I think. What I would say is that it would be very very difficult for someone who was not pro-Israel to get elected in the US (at least nationally). The Anti Defamation League would be all over them smearing them as anti-semitic, holocaust deniers etc. But that isn't really that different from other lobbying groups, apart from the emotional response that these sorts of things produce in the people who vote.
Israel on the other hand is very reliant on the US. It would still be well off economically in comparison with it's neighbours, but nothing like the most developed country in the region, which it is currently, without the astronomical amounts of aid it's had over decades. Militarilly the US is the elephant in the room with regard to Israels enemies. You can't attack Israel or the US will get involved.
So in answer neither. But the US has the controlling mechanisms in place if it ever wants to use them.