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Is it all Bibi Netanyahu’s fault?
There is no doubt that his relentless warmongering – and the growing number of casualties – is making Israel a sovereign state.
While Israel was an effective partner in joining President Trump – some say encouraging him – in attacking Iran, the two sides are now at odds.
Trump called her a “f ——- crazy” and told her she “would be in jail if it wasn’t for me.”
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)
Netanyahu faces a corruption case that has been postponed several times because of Israel’s war with Hamas, which is now Iran.
“All the Jews are sick of you,” Trump told the prime minister last year, according to the Maggie Haberman/Jonathan Swan book “Regime Change,” as the president tried to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza.
Trump is very angry with Bibi right now because his continued attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon has undermined his efforts to make a deal with the Iranians.
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He says he is creating a security zone to protect his country and that the US will do the same.
There has long been a natural sympathy for Israel as the only thriving democracy in the Middle East.
It was soon attacked by its Arab neighbors when, after the Holocaust, it was created by the United Nations in 1948.
Although the Jewish state has since made peace with some of its neighbors – especially Egypt, thanks to Jimmy Carter – some Arab nations insist that Israel has no right to exist.
However, Netanyahu strongly opposed the two-state solution that would create an independent Palestinian state, while Israel is accused of being an apartheid state.
There was a new wave of panic around the world after 7 Oct. 2023, when Hamas brutally kills more than 1,200 Israelis, of all ages, in barbaric attacks.
But even with an understandable vindictiveness, Netanyahu’s tactics have since undone much of the good that resulted — and arguably fueled the rise of ancient anti-Semitic hatred around the world.
Emergency teams respond to a residential building in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City following an Israeli airstrike on May 26, 2026. (Photos by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty)
Hamas, which sacrifices its Palestinians by conscripting them into the army, puts the death toll at 70,000.
“Although Netanyahu defeated Hamas militarily,” wrote three-time Pulitzer winner Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, “he did not nurture or embrace a more moderate Palestinian alternative. So, killing all those Palestinian civilians during the war was viewed by the entire world as such: murder, pure and simple, not clearing the way for better Palestinian governance AND Palestinians.”
And that brings us to Zohran Mamdani.
Although he won the mayoral race last year as a socialist who promised free buses and state-run grocery stores, he did not withdraw his support for the slogan “from the river to the sea,” which means wiping Israel off the map.
But by successfully pushing three pro-Palestinian candidates to run for Congress last Tuesday, ousting two incumbents, the mayor made a big splash in New York politics.
But he also created a big headache for the National Democratic Party.
“Mayor Mamdani took down three staunch Communists, and he got loud and loud applause from the Fake News Media,” Trump said yesterday.
Apparently the word socialist no longer packs a powerful enough punch.
The problem is that most of the country is on the right side of the five states.
Now it will be easier for the opposition to label the Democrats not only as Socialists but as pro-Palestinians.
In fact, the Democratic Party is increasingly anti-Israel. This is where the power lies, especially among young voters who may not remember all the wars the country has been through.
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“You better believe this is a sign of where the party is headed, which is why Republicans are blowing the whistle on what they call ‘The Commie Corridor,'” columnist Rachael Bade said on her website.
The comments have been withering. Joe Scarborough said on MS NOW: “The idea that you’re going to be able to torture children and women in Gaza with seemingly indiscriminate bombing on TV every day for years, that you’re going to be able to level half of Lebanon, that you’re going to be able to keep allowing criminals to attack the West Bank.”
“And the Palestinians are brutal, harassing Christians in Bethlehem, harassing Christians everywhere, and Palestinian Muslims – especially Palestinian Muslims – blowing up Catholic churches in Gaza. Yes, I mean things that would affect some of these people who are so terrified that Israel is in such a low position in America right now.”
Facing the Jewish Democrats, Rep. Dan Goldman was fired by Mamdani, former governor Brad Lander, who argued that the congressman’s support for Israel made the US “complicit in genocide.”
Goldman, who refuses to be imitated, said after his loss:
“As history has taught us, anti-Semitic rhetoric and bigotry – something I’ve heard firsthand in this campaign – will ultimately be the undoing of our democracy if we don’t all stand up and speak up.”
Even in liberal New York City, which has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, it is surprising that Israel and its cause are no longer popular.
NYC Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul Hold World Cup Transportation News Conference Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York, and Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, during a news conference on transportation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup at the MTA Rail Control Center in New York, Thursday, June 4, 2026. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
There has been confusion among Democrats, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, who sued Trump for alleged financial fraud. James says he and others are “disappointed” with the outcome.
“Some of the candidates who supported the election are people who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been part of the history and struggle of some of these districts, and who are new to politics.”
One of Mamdani’s election winners, activist Darializa Avila Chevalier, walked out of a radio interview on Election Day when she was pressed about her past support on social media for ending the police, ending ICE, and declaring that “Israel does not exist.” Chevalier, while saying he regrets past tweets in general, also wrote that “all firings are wrong” – and used a sexual slur against the NYPD.
Some of these offensive messages were posted as recently as 2022.
There is no question that Mamdani has hurt his team in the years to come.
A New York Post editor yesterday said “Mamdani Takes Jew-Hate All the Way to 11,” adding that he would be “fully anti-Semitic.”
Remember that Big Apple voters are ignoring the endorsements of party leaders, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, in supporting Muslim mayoral candidates.
There is great frustration with anything that causes the establishment of Democracy, which is seen as a foundation of empty promises and failure to deliver for the working class.
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That’s why Washington and Seattle once again elected socialists for mayor.
So there are several political divisions here. You can write it off as a low-vote race, which will turn out a lot of Democrats like Mamdani’s election.
But given the Socialist Mayor’s willingness to play Palestinian politics, it’s fair to say that it all comes back to Bibi Netanyahu.
