The US is the one calling the shots. If "Israel" is doing something it's not because it has power over the US but because the US imperial establishment wants and benefits from "Israel" doing that. Everything else is pretense and excuses. As Genocide Joe himself admitted, if there wasn't an "Israel" the US would have to invent one. They get to do the things they do because the neocolony serves Western imperialist interests in the Middle East.