By Kevin Barrett, for American Free Press
Israel, and its wanted-for-genocide Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are increasingly unpopular. Gemini estimates that about 80% of the world's soccer fans cheered for Spain over Argentina in the World Cup, and the primary reason was that Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez is pro-Palestine while Argentina's president Javier Milei is a rabid Zionist.
Even the United States, laboring under the weight of a pro-Israel media and political donor class, is turning against the Zionists. Recent polls show an astonishing 70-point collapse in support for Israel over the past eight years. During Trump's first term , Israel's net favorability hovered at over plus 50. Today it has dropped to minus 20 according to Marquette University Law School and minus 23 according to Pew Research Center.
Even AIPAC-money-loving politicians can sense which way the wind is blowing. Thomas Massie's bill to end US military support for Israel, which a few years ago would have struggled to find two or three brave supporters, garnered 103 Democratic "yes" votes against only 98 "no" votes. (Massie was the only Republican voting in favor.)
Even many of Israel's strongest supporters agree that their "chosen nation" needs a facelift. In June, Donald Trump, huddling with his Israel-loyal Jewish handlers Witkoff and Kushner, screamed at Netanyahu on the phone: " Everyone hates you now ! Everyone hates Israel!"
As Trump's outburst implied, many people identify the things they hate about Israel with one man, Benjamin Netanyahu. Swapping Bibi for a prettier face, or at least one that is not on the world's most wanted list, is on the Zionist agenda.
At some point, the ancient Jewish ritual of scapegoating will likely be applied to Netanyahu. The term "scapegoat" (Azazel) originates from the ancient Hebrew ritual of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Every year, on that high holiday-the holiest single day on the Jewish calendar-the ancient Jews ritually transferred the collective sins, guilt, and impurities of their community onto a goat, and then expelled or destroyed it to achieve symbolic purification.
Soon the scapegoated Netanyahu will be removed from office. Perhaps he will die suddenly or go to prison. His replacement will be celebrated by the Epstein class media as a reasonable man, a moderate, someone who will restore Israel to its pre-Netanyahu status as "a light unto the nations" and "the only democracy in the Middle East." But will that really solve the problem?
Consider who is likely to replace Netanyahu. Until recently, his main rival was Naftali Bennett, who, like Netanyahu, is a fanatical Zionist extremist. Bennett cut his teeth in Netanyahu's Likud Party, and served as Netanyahu's Chief of Staff from 2005 to 2008. His positions haven't shifted since then. Bennett is every bit as genocidal-and as committed to dragging the US into endless war on Iran-as Netanyahu himself.
During the past two months, Gadi Eisenkot has eclipsed Bennett as Netanyahu's main challenger, and the likely next Prime Minister of Israel. And Eisenkot, like Bennett, is as bad as Netanyahu.
Eisenkot is the man who created the Dahiyeh Doctrine-Israel's official policy of genocidally mass murdering civilians. Eisenkot created that "Genocide Doctrine" in 2008 when he was head of the Israeli Defense Forces. He named it the Dahiyeh Doctrine after his mass murder of civilians in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut in 2006.
Eisenkot is an enthusiastic supporter of Israel's mass murder of tens of thousands of children, and additional tens of thousands of women, in its leveling of Gaza. His open support of that mass slaughter makes him one of the most evil political leaders who have ever lived.
Astonishingly, Eisenkot even thinks Netantyahu is too much of a peacenik ! The genocidal "moderate" has strongly criticized Netanyahu for being too submissive to US ceasefire demands in the current Israeli-instigated war on Iran. In other words, Eisenkot is even more determined to force the US to destroy itself for Israel than Netanyahu is!
Netanyahu may be evil, but he is not the source of Israel's problem. Zionism is. That pernicious ideology holds that God "chose" the Jews 3000 years ago and gave them all of the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers in perpetuity. Most Zionists don't even believe in God, but they believe God gave them the right to steal other people's property and rape and murder anyone who resists. How crazy is that?
Israelis have made national heroes of prison guards who sodomize people to death, train dogs to rape prisoners, and engage in other unspeakable atrocities. Their soldiers proudly celebrate shooting pregnant women in the belly to get "one shot two kills." They hunt children for sport, as Chris Hedges detailed in "A Gaza Diary."
In short, Israel is criminally insane, and Netanyahu is just a symptom.
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