"“Palestine was hardly Britain’s to give away”
Not just JFK. It is somewhat wrong reading of history that America always backed Israel! While Israel's importance greatly increased after the Israeli victory in the 1967 war, there was before that war and decades after that war, there were forceful, credible American attempts to make Israel behave. America was not so nearly totally in the Israeli pockets until about 30+ years ago. The last of the American assertiveness was when Sec. James Baker, under G. H. W. Bush (Bush senior) threatened Israel with sanctions. Before him, Reagan (and Thatcher!) too acted forcefully to check Israel when Western vital interests were at stake. Alas, even those right wing leaders look like the Che Gueveras of defiance now!
Why is it so impotant to understand the Israeli control of America? Because Israelis did smart politics to get hold of the media and the political organizations and that needs to be reversed using similar methods. I believe the number reason for Israel's near total dominance in America is the gradual taking over of the American socio-economic-political system which really became too powerful starting the Fall of the Soviet Union in early 90s--and that's probably not a coincidence. Bush senior was the last American President who did and would have exacted real price from Israelis!
