Israel has never and will never determine American foreign policy. To imply so is ridiculous and shows the ignorance of many on the U.S. - Israel Relationship.
Eisenhower took the side of Soviet aligned Egypt over Israel, the UK and France during the Suez Canal Crisis
Until the 1960's, the U.S. never provided weapons to Israel (IDR who provided the weapons, JFK or LBJ, but one of them did)
JFK constantly hounded Israel on its nuclear program and did everything he could to disrupt their plans and progress.
Until the 1980's, the U.S. never had deep and intimate military and defense contacts w/ Israel (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Cooperation_Agreement and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Political_Military_Group)
To this day, the U.S. has engaged in foreign policy initiatives that Israel does not support.
- #1: Reagan Selling AWACS to Saudi Arabia; AIPAC opposed this; Israel opposed this.
- #2: Reagan Admin opposing Israel's decision to destroy the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor in the 1980's and to respond to Libyan terror attacks in the 1980's.
- #3: Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard got one of the longest sentences of any spy ever caught on American soil - yes, even over soviet spies. Was not released until 2015 and even now he can't ever go to Israel.
- #4: The U.S. forcing Israel not to attack Iraq during the Gulf War after Hussein started launching scud missiles into Israel
- #5: George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama loudly and publicly opposed Israel's settlement activity.
- #6: Barack Obama and the P5+1 signed a (horrible) Iran Nuclear Deal despite Israel's constant and loud protests against it.
Also, until Bill Clinton, there was a dominant sphere of foreign policy thought that was super critical of Israel and super cozy towards Arabist political thought and interests. It has returned, somewhat, under Obama, but I wouldn't call his policy Arabist. His policies have devastated the Arab world equally as much as Israel.
Also, for those of you who think Arabist is a "derogatory term", here's what I mean by Arabist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabist_(political)
So, someone please explain to me, how does Israel "run our foreign policy"?