Netanyahu is confronted with a new balancing act—appealing to the new, potentially more progressive face of the Democratic Party while not antagonizing Trump.
There is tension between Netanyahu and both sides of the U.S. political aisle.
Some Democrats continue to chafe over his 2015 speech before Congress in which he attacked President Barack Obama’s Iran policy. Meanwhile, Trump was put off by Netanyahu’s embrace of Biden after the 2020 election.
Harris has been tougher in her criticism of Israel than Biden, hewing closer to the progressive flank of her party. Netanyahu will need to be wary of reigniting controversy over Israel just as she is formulating her own public approach to what has become a wedge issue in the election.
If Netanyahu comes off as too chummy with the Democrats, he risks raising the ire of Trump, who has already lambasted him as someone ungrateful for their prior cooperation.
In 2015, nearly 60 Democrats boycotted Netanyahu’s speech to Congress.
While the exact number of Democrats who plan to skip this week’s address isn’t known, some congressional aides have privately suggested it could be between 50 and 100.
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@WeaverBarrySocialist2yrs2Y
All I can think of every single day is those poor innocent children starving, injured, or killed in Gaza. Their parents suffering unspeakable horror. Netanyahu is despicable and I wish he stayed away. It’s ridiculous he will address Congress
@PumaEverlyRepublican2yrs2Y
How any democrats have any Jewish support is beyond me.
@BitternAndyUnity2yrs2Y
Do you realize that it was Hamas who brought all that suffering to Gazans, not Netanyahu? After Oct 7th there was no path to ceasefire - the trauma was too big. Letting it slip would pave they way to more and bigger atrocities in near future.
@9CJ6CB62yrs2Y
literally all the hostages were offered back on day one. The killing caused by Israel as a response tripled what Hamas did within days. Don’t speak to me of bigger atrocities, Israel’s destroyed every hospital, every school, and every desalination plant in Gaza, while outdoing Hamas’ damage by over 100 times. This is an abomination, and nothing Israel can say will justify it when they have killed thousands simply by forcing the Gazans and Palestinians of the West Bank to suffer as they have.
@WalrusTaylorRepublican2yrs2Y
Harris would be the most anti-Israel US president ever. Her policy is in favor of allowing Hamas to benefit from using civilians as human shields. Her policy would not punish Hamas for the deliberate, premeditated rape, torture, and slaughter of Jewish girls and the burning alive of Jewish babies.
@9CJ6CB62yrs2Y
Funny, that sounds like the crimes of Israel, except Hamas didn’t do half the stuff you just said.
"Harris would be the most anti-Israel US president ever"It's the only reason I am considering voting for her.
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@OriginalPupDemocrat2yrs2Y
Allowing indiscriminate migration of people who hate us will result in more and more pain and peril for USA. Look to France and Germany to see what USA will be contending with in 10 years. The terror handbook lays it all out. They know how to take over civilizations and society without firing a shot.
@KnowledgeLukeSocialist2yrs2Y
Netanyahu and Trump are cut from the same cloth. Both should be soundly defeated.
@TealPeytonLibertarian2yrs2Y
Doesn’t Netanyahu prefer Trump? I imagine Bibi could lead him around by the nose and would do just that.
@SovereignDingoDemocrat2yrs2Y
Bibi is meeting with former President Trump on this visit. You can bet that Trump will be telling Bibi not to give Biden anything that looks like a political victory (regardless, of course, of whether that would also be a victory for Israel). In exactly the same way he told Republicans in Congress not to agree with the bipartisan border bill that they were instrumental in negotiating, because Trump wanted chaos on the border as an issue to run on.
How will Bibi respond to that? In whatever way his perceived personal self-interest dictates, as usual.
Spot on. One man in Mar-a-Lago—who doesn't care one bit about either Israelis or Palestinians but only about himself—will urge and likely even pressure Bibi not to allow any kind of breakthrough until (checks watch) after the first week of November or so. Kind of like Reagan secretly urging Iran not to release hostages when that might help Jimmy Carter.
But Trump is a less subtle and effective operator than Reagan. So I kind of suspect the endgame will be: Bibi says "no" on these deals for his own narrow self-interested reasons, regardless of Trump.
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