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Posted on 07/30/2025 7:55:01 AM PDT by RandFan
Unconditional American support for Israel — once the bedrock of conservative foreign policy — is crumbling in real time.
From Congress to right-wing media and Trump-aligned grassroots organizations, a new tone is taking shape towards Israel: one of skepticism, impatience and in some cases outright hostility. The Republican Party’s old covenant with Israel is no longer sacred — and the cracks are widening fast.
In the mid-20th century, Republicans were generally skeptical of Israel, instead favoring Arab ties. Support grew later, driven by Cold War strategy, evangelical Zionism, neoconservatism and post-9/11 alliances — ultimately transforming the GOP into Israel’s most loyal political partner.
But that alliance is now eroding at a stunning pace. If Israel hopes to preserve its standing, it must act swiftly to reassert its dependability as a strategic ally — or risk forfeiting support not only from the American left, but from its most reliable partners on the right.
Nowhere is the fracture more evident than in President Trump’s second term. In April, his administration slapped Israel with a 17 percent reciprocal tariff. Israeli officials were “in complete shock” after having abolished tariffs on U.S. imports in hopes of an exemption. This signaled that Trump would not give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu everything he wanted — friendship doesn’t mean favoritism.
That message grew louder during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran. Trump brokered a fragile ceasefire that Israel broke within hours. On June 24, Trump erupted in fury. “They don’t know what the f— they’re doing,” he snapped. “I’m not happy with Israel … you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.”
And it wasn’t an isolated outburst...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
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It’s called Freedom of Speech, even when we disagree with it.
I’m sure they would.
Is Massie on the right? Or on the trail of fame and power for Massie?
This is all true, and the under age 30 male demographic was the most Republican voting block in the last election. The era of "Israel First" is being replaced by "America First" by these new Republican voters. Benjamin Netenyahu's still unexplained delay in responding to the October 7th attack, his Epstein links, and his complete destruction of Gaza have done immeasurable harm to Israel's support around the world. The neo-con Boomers are in denial if they think either party will be able to blindly support Israel much longer.
No we are not.
He is a conservative, yes...
from a dailysignal.com article, May 2023:
Abdullah Hayek is an alumnus of the Young Leaders Program of The Heritage Foundation.
He focussed on…muslim_liberal ideology while affiliated with the Heritage Foundation 🤣🤣🤣
Abdullah Hayek - that defines all identity need to know about the article.
Should never have been part of US policy on the left or right to start with. Foreign entanglements and all of that. It is the UK/Euro globalists for which Israel was formed and was a critical interest.
In the left’s dreams, maybe, Not in reality.
Is that you, Tucker?
Bobby gets it.
>> Bullshyte. We read the Bible...
^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^
I don’t believe conservative opinion is turning against Israel, but so what if it is? I’ll remain on the side of Scriptural TRUTH, either way.
The Israel of today is purely a political state, it is not “biblical”. They actively encourage the biblical view for consumption by American Christians, who eat it up.
I don’t really care what they do, as long as we don’t pay for it. Our per capita debt relative to GDP is worse than theirs! They should be giving us money.
According to the commie trash clowns controlling the MSM.
“”The Israel of today is purely a political state, it is not “biblical”. They actively encourage the biblical view for consumption by American Christians, who eat it up.
I don’t really care what they do, as long as we don’t pay for it. Our per capita debt relative to GDP is worse than theirs! They should be giving us money.””
Your jaded and distorted view of Israel is duly noted. As you can guess, I completely disagree. Israel and the US have the same enemies and we should be thanking Israel for taking out the proverbial trash (terrorists) in the ME that we would be having to deal with if they did not. Hence, our ‘aid’ to them, which amounts to us thanking them, I guess. And just so you know, it has NOTHING to do with GDP or per capita debt.
I will go a step further and state that most other nations have had their hands out for US aid for decades, but do nothing and have done nothing to help the US or to repay that debt as Israel has. In fact, some of those nations have done just the opposite and shown that they are NOT our friends.
We do agree on one aspect...those other countries shouldn’t be given any thing either. The US is technically insolvent.
You (and I) are a complete outlier here and on this subject
FR posts run 10:1 in favor.
I got sick of being flamed when I posted about the Israel/Gaza war so rarely post about it now... Even though it’s even more prescient and Trump is tying to fix it
Yeah, telling how the minute there’s daylight between Trump and their position, they ditch Trump.
Haha!
No. Curly’s...
Hey yuk, yuk yuk!
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