He'll be in power until January, 2029 and Netanyahu won't be.

be a better place when he is gone. In fact the world will be a better place when he’s gone.

He's been disrespectful to the U.S. and our leaders for a long time.

Yet Dems have stood by Israel consistently.

I'm quite sure he'd use them as well. Going all the way back to 2001, he was caught on tape bragging about using the U.S., "I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in their way."

Two decades later, he is still taking the money and pretty much ignoring anything our government says. I can't believe he has survived this long.

I am totally disgusted with any anti-semites who spout nonsense about Jews controlling the world, etc. Fuck them. However, when it comes to US policy with Israel the friends of Israel, operating through AIPAC, have a huge outsized voice. They do this not with votes but with piles and piles of cash. Ever since Citizens United opened the floodgates on untraceable campaign contributions and independent expenditures Congressional and higher ed. critics of Israel do so at their own peril.

The surest way to face a well funded candidate in your next election is to stand up to the Likud wing of Israel. Unlike other powerful lobbies, NRA, Pro-Choice, etc. there is no countervailing pot of money for anyone who calls out Israel. So yeah, Bibi ignores the current administration because he can and his many bought supporters in both parties dare not raise a fuss.

He clearly knows how our politics work and he can play both sides effectively. Opposing Netanyahu is often viewed as anti Israel and that is considered political suicide in the U.S. It feels like he is daring people to say something negative about him.

It rather reminds me of the first couple years after 9/11 when any criticism of the Bush administration was considered unpatriotic, which gave them free rein to pretty much do whatever they wanted, not to mention a blank check to do it with. Any objections and they cried, "9/11, 9/11! Terrorism! Be very afraid." I remember that whenever the media started to question them, all of a sudden a video of Osama Bin Laden would pop up. They shamelessly milked 9/11 for all it was worth, as did every republican candidate running for office.

I suppose the Biden quote about Giuliani would have applied to most of them: "A noun, a verb, and 9/11."

The PEOPLE of Israel. Just as many of us also stand by the right of Palestine to EXIST.

That's way different from supporting the authoritarian bstrds of both countries who use their own people as fodder in their power games.

TFG made Ukraine dangle for months for far less noble reasons.

They got 4 years of Caligula and the damage he and his cronies did to this country in just 4 short years. They got a taste of a weakened America on the world stage and believe, rightfully so, that 4 more years of shit for brains will render Americas and democracies in general, relevancy to a low not seen in over 150 years. We've got fox's in our hen house surrounded by wolves.

and has now squandered most of the good will Israel had in the democratic world. He needed to go years ago, they knew he needed to go years ago, but he kept putting coalitions of religious nutcases together to worm his way back into power.

He has cost Israel a great deal.

the Iranian consulate in Syria to widen the war, get attention away from the devastation he has wrought in Gaza, and draw the US into the war.

It hasn't really worked as Iran didn't take the bait and measured it's retaliation to save face, then Israel attacked back and that seems to be it.

Netanyahu's trick didn't work. Now we're back to square one in Gaza and the more devastation. He needs war to continue to stay in office and out of jail.

His route to power was always via the ultra right, ultra orthodox. Funny how Donnie the Orange's path to the White House was through our versions of the same ultra right / ultra orthodox bigots. If the human race does destroy itself in a fiery holocaust, religion is damned certain to be the cause of it.

What I've said on a number of occasions. I'm glad others here know it as well.