Ultimately narratives that depend on Israeli influence on Anglo-American politics are self-serving for Western activists; the facts are plainly the other way around.

The tail doesn't wag the dog; but it is vastly more comfortable to believe the agents of genocide live far away. The fact is that Israel as a genocidal project exists because the rules-based order permitted it to exist, and that happened pretty much entirely because Israel provides a testing ground for weapons that the West wants to sell or buy.