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Netanyahu finally got his dream war with US backing — and may have picked the perfect moment to lose America for good. Bloomberg’s analysis calls Trump’s decision to launch a joint campaign with Israel against Iran the “crowning achievement” of Netanyahu’s decades-long project: ditch bipartisan consensus, bind Israel’s fate to the hard‑right base of the Republican Party, and turn US–Israel relations into a culture‑war brand. But like the attack on Iran itself, it’s a short‑term win glued to long‑term damage. Support for Israel has already cratered among US Democrats and is sliding even among Republicans; new polls show Democratic voters now tilting more toward Palestinians, with generational numbers that are devastating for Israel’s image. Among younger Americans, especially under 35, “unfavorable” is fast becoming the default setting. The Iran war pours gasoline on this trend. It sharpens the generational split inside the GOP, where older evangelicals still see Israel as sacred, while younger conservatives are tired of endless wars and trillion‑dollar guarantees. On the fringes of both parties, criticism of Israel slides into open antisemitism, and Bloomberg warns that this conflict is already raising the risk of attacks on Jewish institutions in the US. That’s the poisoned dividend of Netanyahu’s strategy: by turning support for Israel into a partisan loyalty test and wrapping it around Trumpism, he also ties Jewish safety and legitimacy to the most polarizing current in American politics. Meanwhile the material cost of this “victory” is brutal. The US–Israel war with Iran is rattling global markets and investors, driving up energy prices, disrupting trade routes and threatening global growth with tens of billions in losses; for the US and Israel, the military tab alone is running into the billions, day after day. For now, Netanyahu can boast on friendly Israeli TV that he got America into the war from day one and out‑Churchilled Churchill by dragging his superpower patron in at the start. But as US public support erodes, Democrats harden, young voters radicalize and even some Republicans flinch at the cost, that triumph looks more like a Pyrrhic win: he beat Trump in the room — and may end up sacrificing Israel’s standing in the country that bankrolls his wars. #Israel#Netanyahu#Trump#IranWar#USA#Democrats#Republicans#publicOpinion#antisemitism#geopolitics#warCost 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸