Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with the Breibert editor, Joel Pollock, “you cannot be Maga if you are anti-Israeli on Thursday”. He criticized the growing anti-Israeli feeling in the United States and blamed him to political NGOs based in Europe and Qatar.
“If you support Iran, Iran has tried to kill President Trump twice, not once, but twice. Iran has set him a price,” said Netanyahu.
He then accused Iran of having killed 251 American navies in Beirut. He said Iran killed thousands of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan using explosive devices. “They bombed American embassies. They burn American flags. They sing, “death in America”. The first thing they did when this regime took power was to take more than 50 hostages at the American Embassy.
Netanyahu positioned Israel’s support as an essential element of republican political identity, in particular Trump. In this way, he entangled geopolitical loyalty in partisan politics.
Netanyahu insisted that Iran wanted to destroy the United States, saying that Israel is the best ally of the United States, and he was fighting a war for the United States. Israel and Netanyahu had faced strong criticism from the Maga support base. Influential figures from Maga such as representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Steve Bannon strategist criticized the conduct of Israel, a change in republican feeling.
Steve Banon responded to the interview in an article on social networks where he said that American citizens are not concerned about Netanyahu: “They care to exhibit your pathological lies in order to keep us away from your next war”
Netanyahu’s remark reflects its strategy to influence the domestic policy of the United States by linking it to foreign policy. He deepens the gap between the Israeli Republican Traidtional with the supporters of Maga Anti-War. Former Fox News animator, Tucker Carlson, and the former member of the Republican Congress Matt Gaetz had also been a vocal critic of Israel calling for the government of Netanyahu from Warcrimes in Gaza.
