🇺🇸🇮🇱 GOP’s midterm meltdown reveals how ‘toxic’ Netanyahu has become in US politics, Israeli opposition says
 
Republicans’ resolute support for Israel and prime minister Netanyahu contributed heavily to Tuesday’s historic US election blowout, Israeli opposition-affiliated politicians and analysts have said.
 
🔴 Netanyahu is now “toxic” among both parties, and his continued leadership “could lead Israel down a path of international sanctions, isolation, and a clash with the US, our friend and most important ally,” opposition bloc member and ex-IDF chief of staff Yair Golan warned.

🔴 “Israel has become toxic in the US, largely because of Netanyahu... Another reason for the immediate establishment of an emergency government,” media analyst Barak Seri urged, echoing Golan’s wording.

🔴 The Democrat “blue wave” has made it “unequivocally clear” that “the continuation of Netanyahu’s rule and continuation of Smotrich’s annexation policy will lead to severe damage to the existential interests of the State of Israel,” Golan ally Gilad Kariv wrote, demanding that Netanyahu “vacate” the PM’s office immediately.

🔴 Netanyahu is “toxic” among both parties – with Dems for “meddling in their domestic politics,” with Republicans for pushing Trump “into a long, expensive and frustrating” war with Iran, Israeli journalist Amir Tibon wrote, warning that Netanyahu’s “continued tenure is a recipe for disaster” in relations with the US, a country for whom Israel “has no substitute” as an ally.
 
Israel is in the middle of its own potential power shift after last week’s parliamentary elections, which left neither Netanyahu’s Likud-led coalition or Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition with enough support to cobble together a new government. Netanyahu remains the caretaker PM for now.

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