'Honey, he's had enough of you': Trump's Mideast moves increasingly seem to sideline Israel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Nissim Vaturi, a lawmaker in Netanyahu's Likud Party, tweeted that Trump "is an important friend of Israel.
56% : Trump -- who campaigned on his record of good relations with Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- has spent the past month building out a vision for US policy in the Middle East that appears to be sidelining the country and its leader.
54% : " In his first term, Trump granted the Israeli government's wish-list -- moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement, brokering normalization deals with Arab states and more.
54% : The opening weeks of his second term also drew Israeli cheers: Trump brokered a deal to release dozens of Israeli hostages from Gaza without committing Israel to end the war -- then said the US would take over the territory, which he hoped to largely empty of Palestinians.
54% : But a shift soon began to emerge, and has accelerated in recent weeks: Critics and supporters of Netanyahu and Trump alike are noticing.
53% : " The seemingly fading prospects of Saudi-Israeli normalization are especially notable because it appeared to be a rare area of consensus: Trump, Biden, Netanyahu and centrist Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid had all voiced support for an Israel-Saudi Arabia agreement.
52% : "President Trump, whom Netanyahu saw as a strategic partner for his survival, understands today that Netanyahu isn't an asset but a liability.
51% : On Thursday, the front page of Yediot Aharonot, an Israeli daily seen as critical of Netanyahu, blared that Trump had a "policy of surprises" when it came to Israel.
50% : "Trump will give Israel all of the support it wants, provided that it doesn't cost too much and doesn't require tradeoffs elsewhere," wrote Koplow.
45% : His recent steps have sparked concern from Israelis across the political spectrum -- as well as American Jews who, regardless of their opinion of Trump or Netanyahu, have supported a close US-Israel relationship.
43% : " One year later, if there's a president many Israelis are viewing with disbelief, it's Trump himself.
39% : The title of his column Friday, written as a letter to Trump, was "This Israeli Government Is Not Our Ally." "Netanyahu put his personal interests ahead of Israel's and America's," Friedman wrote, dooming an Israeli-Saudi accord that would have "opened the whole Muslim world to Israeli tourists, investors and innovators, eased tensions between Jews and Muslims the world over and consolidated US advantages in the Middle East.
37% : JTA -- On Friday, a popular Hebrew X account called "News From a Year Ago" tweeted a short video of Donald Trump, then running for US president, from May 2024.
36% : Ahead of the 2024 election, nearly two-thirds of Israelis said they preferred Trump over vice president Kamala Harris.
36% : A bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote Trump a letter "to express our serious concern over the agreement reached on May 6 with the Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, which halts US strikes against Houthi targets without addressing the threat to Israel.
36% : But the Israeli-American writer Sarah Tuttle-Singer of The Times of Israel posted to Facebook that whatever happens in the end, Trump has engaged in "a dizzying turn of whiplash diplomacy" to Israel's detriment.
31% : Using an analogy from "The Godfather," Koplow wrote that Trump may be telling Israel, essentially, that if it wants to keep fighting in Gaza, it can.
30% : A recent poll by the Arab American Institute found that nearly half of Republican respondents agree Trump should place greater pressure on Israel to end its occupation and allow a Palestinian state.
26% : Below it was a political cartoon showing Trump cooking up a soup for Netanyahu, who sits, with a shocked expression, at a restaurant table behind the president.
26% : But in that case, Trump will distance himself from Israel and does not want to be involved in its plans.
20% : "Trump is signaling to Netanyahu, 'Honey, I've had enough of you,'" Israeli commentator Dana Fahn Luzon said on a TV debate this week over Trump's recent deal with the Houthi terror group, which has been firing missiles at Israel.
20% : " In the United States, Halie Soifer, head of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, wrote Friday that the trend shows what she and other critics of Trump have long warned: "Despite the false perception that Trump is an ally of Israel, it has become increasingly clear that Trump's 'America First' foreign policy does not prioritize Israel.
17% : Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist and frequent Trump and Netanyahu critic who reported on prospects for an Israel-Saudi deal under Biden prior to Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack, placed the blame on Netanyahu -- and congratulated Trump.
16% : "Trump is not going to Israel because he doesn't see any upside to going there and does not want to be dragged into Netanyahu's Gaza mess.
6% : "If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves," Trump said in the video.

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