Netanyahu in an interview with Politico: "Most Israelis support the policies I lead"/documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law
Anyone who has seen the bad-yet-addictive drama "The Morning Show" starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon knows that morning programs in the US are not like what we are used to in Israel. Yes, there are light lifestyle corners as well about cooking and some artist who is trying to promote his new concert tour - but alongside this there is a heavy-handed preoccupation with current affairs. This is why it was not surprising to see Benjamin Netanyahu appear at the "Fox and Friends" studio early in the morning in the USA, to respond to the claims made by the President of the United States Joe Biden in an interview on the MSNBC network this weekend.
"Fox and Friends" is the most watched program on the most popular news network in the US, and above all - it is the perfect place these days to promote pro-Israel positions, or more precisely, anti-Biden positions. The panel of interviewers did not trouble Netanyahu with questions, and the atmosphere in the studio was of reverence. No studio in Israel, not even at Channel 14, would have provided Netanyahu with such a comprehensive and enveloping stage. Kylie McEnany, former White House spokeswoman, who simply sat in the panel with a disposable cup of Duncan Donuts, served the whole studio an atmosphere of parliament. In a coffee shop, and not of a serious news program.
No studio in Israel would have provided Netanyahu with such a comprehensive and enveloping stage.
Netanyahu is a guest on "Fox and Friends"/screenshot, Fox News
Although Netanyahu is not many Israelis' cup of tea, and that's putting it mildly in light of recent polls, an absolute majority of Israelis will agree with his basic message: Hamas must be destroyed.
The problem is that, at best, most Israelis no longer believe that he is the man capable of delivering this result.
At worst, the Israelis believe that he is wasting his time, because the war benefits his personal interests.
One can argue with this theory, but one thing is indisputable: Netanyahu does not give interviews in Israel.
At best he will answer reporters' questions at press conferences only to berate them for not asking the right questions.
Netanyahu would rather sit in front of American interviewers with a disposable cup of Duncan Donuts than try to answer questions from serious journalists in Israel.
Not only because he has no answers to the difficult questions, but because he prefers this position of the partisan from small and weak Israel who fights for the Jewish people not only against Arab armies, but against the strongest man in the world.
He is not driving Biden out of his mind for himself, but for the Jewish people.
Obviously.
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But something breaks even in this facade from interview to interview.
It is not clear if this is a technical malfunction of the lighting or make-up, but in Netanyahu's last interview with the "Fox" network, he looked simply yellow.
For a moment it seems that I fell on an episode of "The Simpsons" that I have not yet watched.
Netanyahu does not look good.
It's not just the color, but the tiredness in the eyes and general lack of energy.
Maybe it's a mild effect that he suffered from, and if so we can only wish him health and longevity.
For the avoidance of doubt, I wish myself and each of my lovers to look as good as Netanyahu at the age of 74, and that is precisely why it is so obvious that something bad is happening to him.
Perhaps this is the reason why he chooses to go into battle against the 81-year-old Biden, precisely because compared to him, he still looks young and energetic.
just yellow
Netanyahu/screenshot, Fox News
In the bottom line, it should be understood that Biden's warming of the divide between Israel and the US is no less dangerous than the warming of the arena with Iran. It is difficult to predict what the post-Biden USA will look like, but it is doubtful that we will ever have another Zionist president in the White House.
The predictions hold that the next president will be Donald Trump, who only recently claimed that Hitler "did some good things", and clearly refuses to speak out in favor of Israel, or at all, regarding the war in Gaza.
The options in the Democratic camp the day after Biden are just as frightening.
It is clear to everyone that the credit that Israel has from Biden will not be given by any president, and Netanyahu's good coercion towards him is simply intolerable.
"Fox and friends" will not transfer arms worth billions to the IDF, Biden will. But that's how it is when the leader is sure that he is more important than the country. As a wise woman once said? "Bibi is a leader who is greater than this entire country, he is truly a leader on a national scale.
In this country everyone wants to be slaughtered and burned?
Come on, why does he have to try so hard?
We will move abroad.
May this country burn.
The country without Bibi will not last.
People here will be slaughtered."
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