"When Israeli and U.S. policies clash, it is U.S. presidents who back down. For 30 years, the United States has held that settlements in the territories occupied in the 1967 war were "illegal" and impediments to peace. Yet, despite $100 billion in U.S. aid to Israel since 1972 – $20,000 for every Israeli – the number of settlers has risen from 8,400 to 357,000. Israel ignores U.S. pleas and demands, for it knows they are bluster and bluff, designed for Arab consumption."
(The real estate developers of the West Bank settlements are Americans)
"When Israeli and U.S. policies clash, it is U.S. presidents who back down.
Actually during the 73 war Israeli tanks were wel no their way to damascus when Nixon told them NO (as that could have pushed things into wwIII) they turned around and went back to the golan.