> I really don’t feel that anyone is prepared to have a serious discussion regarding Israel, and I believe that’s mainly because…

…Israel’s intelligence finds or creates blackmail on more than enough key politicians and their staff in the western countries.

I expect basically every intelligence agency to do that to everyone else.

On the other hand, Johnson and many of his staff clearly can’t be blackmailed because he and many of them are totally shameless.

“Israel’s intelligence” is like a gang member calling themselves “lil NSA” or some shit. It’s the NSA and globalist interests within the US who don’t like the idea that nations are nations and they don’t control the Earth. It’s very insulting to people with compensate for a lack of personality or wit with egotism to be told you can’t just “do whatever” when you have a billion dollars. Again, I think no one is ready for a serious conversation about this. We don’t consider our rich mentally ill, and therefore there can be little else to be said or done.

Sounds like they are a very powerful force not only controlling your mentally ill rich but also living rent free in your head.

Could you explain what this comment means? It doesn’t make sense. ESL?

John Mearsheimer (Chicago professor) & Stephen Walt (Harvard professor) wrote a New York Times bestseller book called the Israel Lobby which delicately discussed in careful details the influence of the Israeli lobby on US politics.

Perhaps the treatment they got for the book is the reason many serious academics and intellectual steer clear of the topic. Which is unfortunate since the pernicious influence of the lobby has arguably grown steadily since they published the book, culminating in the election of Trump and such disastrous consequence for the world like shredding of Obama's Iran nuclear agreement.

This hits the nail on the head with a sledgehammer. It’s not merely difficult for the ideological reasons I outlined but also because of the power structures one deals with discussing it. Ah, the banal bureaucracy of evil.