'Israelis Turn Decisively Against Trump' - Josh Marshall, TPM
"I’ve mentioned a few times that in addition to everything else Trump’s Iran 'deal' is an electoral disaster for Benjamin Netanyahu. What I’ve been wondering is what the deal would do to Israelis attitudes toward Donald Trump. On its face that shouldn’t be complicated. If Israelis are mad at Netanyahu for getting boxed into Trump’s deal and coerced into honoring a treaty Israel wasn’t a party to, presumably they should be far angrier at Trump himself. After all, he made the deal. But Israelis’ attitudes toward Donald Trump don’t allow it to be quite that simple. Pains me as it does to say, Israelis really like Donald Trump. Like really like Donald Trump, in a way that transcends Netanyahu’s to-date iron hold on Israel politics."
"Now we get the beginnings of an answer to the question. A new poll from Israel’s Channel 12 finds that 71% of Israelis don’t trust Trump to look out for Israel’s interests in an Iran accord compared to 13% who do. The same pollster asked the same question only a week ago, when the outlines of the deal were coming into view but they weren’t official. That poll found only 61% trusted Trump. So Trump’s standing in Israel is bad and falling fast. To give some context, a February poll by the Jewish People Policy Institute found that 73% of Israelis thought Trump was a better than average president and 49% thought he was one of best in American history. The results were highly polarized. 92% of the Israeli right thought he was a good president. But even 34% of the Israeli left thought so."
Continued at link:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/israelis-turn-decisively-against-trump
= new reply since forum marked as read
