The Israeli leader is weak at home, unpopular among Jewish Americans and undermining peace. We shouldn’t prop him up
‘Netanyahu is a profoundly weak leader right now. Every Israeli poll since the 7 October attack and the ensuing war has shown Netanyahu without majority support for his own leadership.’‘Netanyahu is a profoundly weak leader right now. Every Israeli poll since the 7 October attack and the ensuing war has shown Netanyahu without majority support for his own leadership.
Amir Tibon wrote about Congress’s invitation recently in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, where he is a diplomatic correspondent. If the invite goes through, Tibon wrote: “It will be made possible thanks to the weakness and shallowness of certain Democratic politicians who have no real understanding of Israeli politics and society, and mistakenly think it is ‘pro-Israel’ to cooperate with Netanyahu – a man despised by at least half of his country.
Netanyahu is a profoundly weak leader right now. Every Israeli poll since the 7 October attack against Israel and the ensuing war between Israel and Hamas has shown the Netanyahu government losing its governing majority and Netanyahu without majority support for his own leadership. And Israelis poll all the time, usually one or more polls a week.
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