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Originally Posted by microbet
That's what started it anyway. I did suggest that it may be just opportunism as he has a reputation as an opportunist, but I think his side anyway pretty flatly thinks that what is good for Israel is what is best for Jews everywhere.
(tl;dr + you probably know most of it)
This has nothing to do with Jews whatsoever.
Bibi has been using Trump-esque methods to remain in power for over a decade. The rise of Trump is a vindication of sorts for him.
The first part is the media, both his relationship to the mass media outlets and the way he communicates to the people (Bibi very rarely gives interviews).
In the last few years he's been fighting directly with the two major news networks in Israel. This includes extremely personal attacks on one reporter of Channel 10 (Raviv Druker) which he posts (we don't tweet as much) about on a daily basis.
In the past few months he started using "Fake News" in those Facebook posts.
He posts instantly on every event that might be an Islamic terror attack. For example, a few months ago during a week of extreme dry weather, there was a huge number of fires in Israel. Immediately it was dubbed as "Arson Terror" or in more catch name of "Intifiada of Arsoning".
He posted about it repeatedly. Amazingly as the weather changed the fires stopped. Hardly any arrests were made, no indictments.
A year ago there was a strange news report on a gang-rape of a mentally ******ed Jewish girl in Jaffa by a group of Palestinians. Bibi, who has literally never talked about crimes against women, wrote a long post about it. It was later revealed to be a hoax of some sort. Of course he never posted about it being wrong.
There are many many more cases like that. The success of Trump 'proves', in his eyes and those of his followers, that Bibi was right all along about the media.
The 2nd part is the Obama administration. Bibi was treated like **** (rightfully so or not is less relevant) by Obama and Kerry. The butchered relations with the US was something the opposition in Israel repeatedly roasted Bibi on. He took a gamble on the Republican Party (before Trump was the nominee) and he is happily enjoying his winnings now. Trump wins 'proves' back home that he was right all along and it was all part of a plan.
The 3rd part is a mixture of ideology or 'opportunity' if you want to call it that. Bibi's goal is to do nothing. Keeping the status-quo has been his top and only priority from day 1. He builds settlements when the right wing forces him to, he starts low level negotiations when the US/left is forcing him. He doesn't want to do anything. Trump is the perfect president for him. Trump knows nothing about the I/P conflict and couldn't care less about it.
There's some merit to a philosophical debate on whether Bibi actually believe all of that or if it's a clever con he's been running for over a decade. I'm in the 'it doesn't matter and I don't care' camp. So his support for Trump is genuine and correlates with every bit of his world view.
The whole Jewish graveyards thing has been reported in the Media here but to be honest no one really cares. American Jews are viewed in general as leftist elite and you'll here a lot more opinions in the "serves them right for being anti-Israel" area than actual sympathy or worry.
Bibi spent 8 years convincing his large base that Obama is anti-Israel (which is 100% identical to being antisemetic in their view). The opposite of Obama is therefore pro-Israel. For the time being, neither Bibi nor the general opinion here gives a **** about antisemitism.
It's not that the view is that what's good for Israel is good for Jews everywhere. The days of the Joint are kinda over. Simply put, we don't care about you guys.
