They have certainly been extorting the United States ever since Golda Meir told Richard Nixon that if the Arabs got anywhere near Jerusalem, Israel would hit them with every nuke they had. That’s when we started providing them weapons. So they wouldn’t blow up the world.
That's not exactly it. Golda was a stupid b*tch. Israel could allow themselves to say such nonsense because the lobby is so powerful. But that's one of the red lines the US would never allow. If Israel did that it would disappear for good. Killing Palestinians is far more acceptable for them.
I don't think this is the problem. If anyone with nukes could boss the US, Pakistan or North Korea would too. The offensive nuclear threat is not believable when the US has several thousand nukes. Besides, France and the UK have them too. Israel is dependent on foreign aid they're not Iran.
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