Opinion | Support for Israel Is Collapsing. Netanyahu Sees That.

There’s a pincer movement where you have people on the progressive left who despise Israel because they consider it a settler colonialist imposition on the Middle East that is the cat’s paw for imperialism in the West. And then you have the hatred of Israel and, frankly, and of Jews, coming from the hard right in the United States. The Tucker Carlsons and so forth, who are influencing the younger generation of Republicans. And so the hatred for Israel is coming from both sides. And Netanyahu seems to have made a calculation that he’s aware of this declining support for Israel in the United States. And he seems to be saying, yep, in the future, we’re not going to have the U.S. And so we’re going to go for everything right now while we’ve got Trump. Try to get everything done, eliminate Iran as a threat, eliminate Hezbollah, Hamas. And then we will be secure and we won’t have to worry about American good opinion. So you’re saying the loss of some American support has the perverse effect of creating more, a greater complaint against Israel in the United States. It’s very possible.