The most popular politician among Israelis does not have a seat in the Knesset. He does not speak Hebrew. His name is Donald John Trump.
A brand-new poll by the Kantar Institute and the newspaper Israel Hayom provides the numbers: 58 percent of Israelis have a decidedly positive opinion of the sitting US president. At first glance, this looks like a bombastic political joker card for Benjamin Netanyahu. In the coming election campaign, however, it could turn out to be an extremely well-disguised, deadly trap.
Let us briefly conduct a thought experiment: If the State of Israel were the 51st state of the United States, it would have been by far the “reddest,” meaning most conservative, state on the entire electoral map. Next to Israel, even deeply Republican Montana would have looked like a leftist stronghold of Kamala Harris. We remember: Support for Joe Biden in Israel crashed completely in step with his hypocritical arms embargoes, while Trump remained a constant. A poll shortly before the election even showed that Trump...
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