| − | On April 15, 1973 in [[CBS]]'s ''[[Face the Nation]]'', Fulbright said that "[[Israel]] controls the [[U.S. Senate]]"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Findley |first1=Paul |title=They dare to speak out : people and institutions confront Israel's lobby |date=May 1, 2013 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1556524820 |pages=315 |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=tR9errU_8gQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fulbright+Israel+controls+the+US+senate&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2l7-Pn6PeAhXDJt8KHa_eCy0Q6AEITjAH#v=onepage&q=Fulbright%3A%20Israel%20Controls%20Senate&f=false |accessdate=26 October 2018}}</ref> and that "The Senate is subservient to Israel, in my opinion much too much."<ref>{{cite web |title=Fulbright: Israel Controls Senate |url=https://www.jta.org/1973/04/17/archive/fulbright-israel-controls-senate |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |publisher=JTA |accessdate=26 October 2018}}</ref> Fulbright even went on to say, "Around 80 percent are completely in support of Israel; anything Israel wants it gets. Jewish influence in the House of Representatives is even greater."<ref>[https://m.jpost.com/Features/Washingtons-elders-of-anti-Zion Washington's elders of anti-Zion]</ref> He would later register as an agent for Saudi Arabia in retirement. | + | On April 15, 1973 in [[CBS]]'s ''[[Face the Nation]]'', Fulbright said that "[[Israel]] controls the [[U.S. Senate]]"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Findley |first1=Paul |title=They dare to speak out : people and institutions confront Israel's lobby |date=May 1, 2013 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1556524820 |pages=315 |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=tR9errU_8gQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fulbright+Israel+controls+the+US+senate&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2l7-Pn6PeAhXDJt8KHa_eCy0Q6AEITjAH#v=onepage&q=Fulbright%3A%20Israel%20Controls%20Senate&f=false |accessdate=26 October 2018}}</ref> and that "The Senate is subservient to Israel, in my opinion much too much."<ref>{{cite web |title=Fulbright: Israel Controls Senate |url=https://www.jta.org/1973/04/17/archive/fulbright-israel-controls-senate |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |publisher=JTA |accessdate=26 October 2018}}</ref> Fulbright even went on to say, "Around 80 percent are completely in support of Israel; anything Israel wants it gets. Jewish influence in the House of Representatives is even greater."<ref>[https://m.jpost.com/Features/Washingtons-elders-of-anti-Zion Washington's elders of anti-Zion]</ref> He would later register as an agent for Saudi Arabia in retirement. Having been the Senate's leading critic of Israel in the 1970s, he compared US relations with Israel to the Soviet Union and found the pattern "disturbing", saying, "Israel and its supporters are among the principal obstacles to the normalization of our relations with the Russians,"<ref>[https://www.wrmea.org/1984-april-30/personality-j.-william-fulbright.html Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 30, 1984, Page 8]</ref> |