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Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill
Benjamin Netanyahu’s whirlwind visit to the United States last week to address the United Nations General Assembly was further evidence that the Israeli prime minister is now a universal pariah.
He is being abandoned even by his closest allies.
It was perhaps not surprising that 77 nations, including a handful of European states, walked out of the chamber in protest that a wanted war crimes suspect - a fugitive from the International Criminal Court (ICC) - was being given a platform to speak on the world’s largest stage.
Far more notable was what happened - or rather, didn’t - away from the podium. Netanyahu spent just eight hours in the US before heading back to Israel. It is hard to believe that that was his choice.
He was denied his usual moment in the sun with Donald Trump at the White House, and could not even secure a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again
(Both polls are from mid-2025)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/1/is-israel-really-ready-to-withdraw-from-gaza
https://archive.is/Z1GWJ
https://archive.vn/Vl5Kv
(Haaretz is Israel's newspaper of record)
Liberal zionists will always find someone to blame so they don't have to acknowledge the illegal state of israel being the problem. After years of genocide they can't deny it anymore, but that doesn't mean they are going to do anything about it. Netanyahu is pure evil, just like Trump is, but don't forget the genocide was enabled by the good grandpa Biden.
Absolutely, rot in hell Genocide Joe along with Trump.
That being said, the danger with focusing it entirely on "the problem is Israel" is that this is precisely the narrative rightwing antisemitic forces in the US and elsewhere need to escape having a more honest, uncomfortable and nuanced conversation about how the Genocide of Palestinians is a process many many many are complicit in beyond the narrow definitions of Israel and most of that architecture of complicity is not Israeli nor jewish (a lot of it regionally is Arab... which is how twisted up these things always are with humans being the way they are).
I am not saying the tip of the iceberg that gashed the side of humanity isn't the thrust of the problem, but without the rest of the iceberg below how would this violence have grown to such magnitude?
People like Tucker Carlson will cry out "the jews have backstabbed us again and fooled us into supporting something we DEFINITELY had no idea was happening we swear!" and many smallminded people will see that as an easy offramp to a mirror being turned on the broken core of their worldview.