Murray Rothbard, who was hardly a Marxist, once explained to me that if money doesn't explain everything, in party politics it does explain a great deal."
-Lew Rockwell
Read on:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/netanyahu-and-the-crumbling-israeli-lobby/
and on:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/netanyahu-and-the-crumbling-israeli-lobby/
They tricked us into going to war in Iraq, and now they're trying to get us to fight Iran. A few people are starting to wake up but most Americans are still sold on the idea that Israel can do no wrong. Needless to say, AIPAC has a huge PR department.
You're on the right track - Americans are looking to the New World Order by and thru the powerful central government in Washington DC.