Israel lobby controls US money in ME to buy off certain states

US President Donald Trump is whipping up support to rebuild infrastructure by complaining about the $7 trillion the US has “foolishly” spent in the Middle East but, according to political analyst Michael Burns, he cannot free the money up from the hands of the Israeli lobby, which controls the US foreign relations “lock, stock, and barrel,” and spends it to “buy off” regional countries in favor of Israel.

Trump’s Friday comment on Twitter “masks one brutal fact” and that is the American people are "tired" of the US “interminable” wars in the region and the “amount of money we’re spending in the Middle East,” to “buy off” other states in favor of Israel, the New York-based political, military, and economic analyst told Press TV Saturday.

“The American people… don’t understand why,” he noted. “But the real answer, and this is the brutal truth… carefully disguised and masked is that American foreign relations is controlled lock, stock, and barrel by the Israel lobby.”

Trump’s tweet came a day after Trump suffered a defeat at the United Nations General Assembly, which overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution calling on the US to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israeli "capital."

‘Israeli masters’

Burns further asserted that as “policy making institution” the United States avoids any measures against the interests of the “Israeli masters” through the regime’s lobby in Washington.

“Don’t forget! President Trump was in part supported by wealthy Jewish lobbyists,” he said. “When it comes to the interests of Israel, America is one hundred percent behind them; the unintended or intended consequence of that policy is that we have to buy off Israel’s neighbors.”

“We pay them whatever they want; we pay it in cash; we pay it in arms sales; we pay it under the table,” he added.

By his tweet, Trump tried to take advantage of the recent defeat at UN by turning it into an opportunity at home through stressing the need to spend more on America’s aging infrastructure.

The Republican president is expected to unveil his much-awaited 70-page infrastructure proposal next month.

“That money is available for infrastructure but will it be able to be freed up from the Israeli lobby? … I don’t think so!” said Burns.