The people of #Israel have been on the streets for over a year, double digit percentages of the population, week after week, demanding Netanyahu's resignation and raging against his #Gaza policy, but you wouldn't know it by looking at US media. All we get to see is how the war is bad for Biden.
I attended some of the early anti-Netanyahu rallies in Tel Aviv when I was there last Spring. Seven months before Oct 7, and the Israeli people, including Palestinians, were already up in arms, calling him a white supremacist and a fascist and demanding his ouster.
And they're still out there today, facing increased police violence and worse, including murderous nut jobs ramming cars into the peaceful protesters, just to voice their opposition to that monster.
I don't know you so I have no idea if you're being misleading on purpose or if you genuinely don't know.
Yes, Netanyahu is profoundly unpopular in Israel but the latest from the Israel Democracy Institute has consistently shown it's because Jewish Israelis do not believe he has done enough. The IDF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, is the most popular politician followed by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant then by a former general, Benny Gantz, who is minister of nothing due to a quirk in Israeli politics. Even then, Netanyahu is slightly up in popularity just not as much as Gallant. The only one who took a real hit was Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Meanwhile, the proportion of Israelis saying that the suffering of civilians in Gaza shouldn't matter in military decisions has only dropped from 83.5% to 80%. But now we can add 60% oppose the construction of the jetty to deliver humanitarian aid because it weakens their bargaining position (explicit support for a war crime).
Netanyahu isn't the problem, decades of nationalism, dehumanization, and propaganda have metastasized into a state that cannot be fixed by relying on their voters to grow a conscience.
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