Netanyahu's speech at the UN might as well be given to Mamdani's staff at the NYC city hall, neither place has any use for him. But he's not speaking to influence the UN, rather voters back in Israel. His platform now is that Israel is Sparta, and will go it alone if necessary.
Unfortunately, more and more, Israel is alone, and that isn't the worst of it. The shelf life on his reliance on Trump and the United States is getting shorter, election by election. Netanyahu will learn his fate at the end of October. Likewise, Israel will learn more about its reliance on the USA in early November. A blue wave doesn't bode as well for Israel as it once did.
I'm hoping that Israel moves beyond Netanyahu, and that United States moves beyond Trump, but both have staying power. In Israel, things could go even more hawkish and aggressive. Likewise, in the United States any majority will be thin and under constant pressure.
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Acting like Israel being alone is something new is a novel viewpoint.
ReplyDeleteThe reality is that those who wanted to eliminate Israel were gaining momentum well before Netanyahu or anything in Gaza.
It’s almost laughable (but dangerously irresponsible) the way many spew the line that it was Israel’s RESPONSE to October 7th that made things this way. It’s truly sad that so many that should know better repeat it.
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anon@12:41: thanks for the MAGA burger. While you're correct that the elements craving Israel's destruction haven't changed, the RESPONSE has had consequences. Israel's relationship with Europe has deteriorated. Those relations involved both domestic and military ties and trade, especially with France and Germany.
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