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The Republican Republican Party is witnessing an accelerated ideological shift with the succession of generations, especially among the young conservatives and the populist current, which leads to a significant decline in traditional support for Israel, thus threatening the old consensus of this party with its rival, the Democratic Party on the special relationship between Washington And Tel AvivAccording to an opinion article published by the Haaretz newspaper.
The journalist accused Netanyel Silumovich in his article by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuWhat is required for international justice, by playing a pivotal role in eroding the support of Democrats for Israel with its violent methods and biased the Republicans.
Although the American president Donald Trump And the senior leaders of his old -generation Republican party still support Israel, the movement (MagaThe populism that he founded began to show increasing isolationism and skeptical about the feasibility of American engagement in wars and obligations in The Middle EastIncluding unconditional support for Israel, according to Haaretz’s article.
The author of the article pointed out that opposition voices began to stand out among major conservative figures such as Steve Bannon – who ran the first presidential campaign for Trump in 2016, one of the engineers of the prosperous populist movement – and the famous American broadcaster Taker Karlson, as both criticize Netanyahu publicly, as they describe the incitement that pushes America towards wars.
There is also the political and right -wing American businesswoman Margori Taylor Green and other personalities close to Trump, all of which question Israel’s moral position and strategic importance.
In this context, he called JD Vans The US Vice President – in a speech – until Israel and the Sunni countries in the Middle East take charge of “controlling the region”, allowing America to gradually withdraw.
Add to that the influencers of Bodcast and media (such as Theo von and Tim Delon), in turn reflect the escalation of digital anger among young people towards Israeli influence in American politics.
The outstanding moment
In an interview with the New York Times with Bannon, he did not hide his contempt for the Israeli Prime Minister, who described him as a war advocate leading Trump to war by exaggerating the Iranian nuclear threat. He said – in that interview – addressing Netanyahu: “You ignited a war, and you started a struggle and you do not have the military ability to end it, then you have no need to rely on us.”
The support of Israel, since its foundation in 1948, has always been a unanimous consensus between the two parties in the United States, according to Silumovic, recalling what President John Kennedy said in 1962, to Israel Britain“.
But the Israeli journalist indicates in his article that Netanyahu remained for more than a decade working systematically to undermine the relationship with the Democratic Party and its vice until it was cut off. “Now, it seems greatly contributed to a fundamental change in Republican public opinion.”
The outstanding moment in the estrangement between Israel and the Democratic Party – in his opinion – was the speech of the Israeli Prime Minister in the US Congress in 2015, when members of the Republican Party in the largest legislative body in the United States invited him to attack the nuclear agreement that the President’s administration negotiated. Barack Obama.
Silumovic claimed that this “conscious choice” to burn bridges with the Democratic Party led to a violent reaction that was already clear during the “Associate Guard” operation that Israel launched on. Gaza Strip In May 2021, when a group of public opinion polls showed that support for Israel among Democrats fell to less than 50% for the first time, and the decline has continued unabated since then.
Silumovich: Netanyahu has been for more than a decade working systematically to undermine the relationship with the Democratic Party and its vice until it was cut, and now, it seems that he has contributed greatly to a fundamental change in Republican public opinion.
Dismantling and suspicious
The Haaretz article emphasized that populist leaders have begun to talk about the support provided to Israel contradicting the slogan “America first” that Trump raises, considering that Israel is pushing the United States to wars that have no interest in it, and adopts social values that contradict the conservative Christian values in America (such as supporting the rights of abortion and homosexuals).
Like the progressive of the Democratic Party, the author of the article stated that voices in the Trump movement are calling for reducing the political influence of the pro -Israel groups, such as the American -Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
He added that there are also calls to close the American bases in the Middle East after the recent war with IranAnd warnings that Israel may drag the United States again to conflicts that have no camel and no camel.
What can be summarized by what the writer wants to alert him, that what was previously considered an American consensus on the support of Israel, began to disintegrate, between the young Republics and the pro -Trump populist current, there is an escalating wave of doubt and questioning about the nature of the relationship with Israel, and a demand for external policies focused on American interests in the first place, and not to protect allies who are seen today with suspicion.