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The puppet made an advocacy lobby. A way to tell it's imperial master what it wants. This isn't influence, this is communication.
Lobbyists - famous for having no influence.
Recheck my edit on original post for an explanation of how I'm using the word influence.
As for the US doing something it otherwise wouldn't do, the US gains nothing from the genocide of Palestine that doesn't relate directly to Israel. You've made two contradictory statements, and they're both wrong.