American Jews’ Support for Israel Is Near Its Breaking Point

What’s more, Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and the man who’s asleep-at-the-switch leadership helped ensure the success of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack against Israel, which led to its catastrophic response, has adopted the Trumpian tactic of gaslighting truth tellers, denying observable reality, and blaming deep-state leftists and alleged traitors for raising any questions, even going on MAGA manosphere bro podcasts to make his case.

Netanyahu argues for U.S.-Israeli control of food distribution in Gaza because, as he said back in March, after breaking off ceasefire talks, “Hamas is currently taking control of all supplies and goods entering Gaza.” In fact, as the Times reported, the Israeli military never found any proof that Hamas had systematically done so when Israel was allowing the U.N. to distribute food and medicine. He also insists that when “Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza,” this is “a bold-faced lie. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza. And there is no starvation in Gaza.”

Now Netanyahu is reported to be threatening to annex parts of Gaza unless Hamas meets his demands. In this regard, as in so many others, he is being led by the nose by the far-right ministers in his government who hold the key to his political survival (and therefore are keeping him out of jail). For instance, his National Security Minister Itmar Ben-Gvir recently declared, “The only way to win the war and bring back the hostages is to completely stop the ‘humanitarian’ aid, conquer the entire Gaza Strip, and encourage voluntary migration.” Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu congratulated the prime minister for “racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out.”