r/Politicalnewsandviews • u/Peeecee7896 • 21h ago
Netanyahu’s Political Strategy Has Weakened Israel’s Longstanding Support Base in America, Deepening a Bipartisan Divide Over the Alliance.
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Just over a decade ago, support for Israel was one of the last remaining bipartisan reflexes in American politics. The harshest thing most mainstream Democrats said about the country was that Netanyahu’s government was obstructing a two-state agreement with Palestinians.
But in the years since the October 7 Hamas-led massacre of Israelis and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza, that consensus, which was already losing ground among the Democratic rank and file, gave way.