00:00Netanyahu may have won over Trump, but he's losing Americans in the process.
00:04In the latest Gallup polling for the first time era, more Americans said that they sympathize
00:09with the Palestinians than with Israel. And among Democrats and younger voters, the change
00:15has been truly profound. Back in 2002, even three times as many Democrats sympathize with Israel
00:21as with the Palestinians. Today, it is four to one in the opposite direction,
00:25and among younger Democrats, it's seven to one. It's wishful thinking for Israel's allies to assume
00:31that all of its erosion in the American political landscape has been a function of anti-Semitism.
00:37The erosion has been driven both by Israel's actions in the Middle East itself, particularly
00:43the Gaza war, but also the way that Benjamin Netanyahu has chosen to engage in American politics.
00:49You know, when Netanyahu first was elected as prime minister in 1996, he inherited a generation
00:54of bipartisan American support. But Netanyahu has had a very distinctive political strategy over
01:00his career. He has regularly collided with Democratic presidents, whether it was Bill Clinton or Barack
01:06Obama or Joe Biden. And he has put the vast majority of his effort in the U.S. to shoring
01:12up his support
01:13on the right. And in many ways, the decision by Trump to join in this joint attack on Iran is
01:19the
01:20successful culmination of Netanyahu's three decade long effort. But the cost of that has been to
01:26alienate Democrats to a degree that really would have been unimaginable for an earlier generation of
01:31Israeli or, for that matter, American leaders. I think it's a given that the next Democratic
01:36president is not going to be as deferential to Israel as Biden was. The question really is what
01:41happens on the Republican side. If the war goes badly, even if it produces a backlash that
01:46hurts Republicans in the midterm election, I think there are going to be more rank and file Republican
01:51voters who join those very loud MAGA media voices questioning whether Trump has allowed Israel to
01:58pull him into a war that is more in their interest than our own. Almost 40 percent of Republicans under
02:0550
02:05say that the U.S. has been too supportive of Israel. That's four times the share of older Republicans.
02:12By deciding that he did not need support in both parties, Netanyahu, I think, has put Israel in a
02:19position where it may not be able to reliably count on support in either party.
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