Why Benjamin Netanyahu Is Not As Popular As People Believe: FDD Senior Vice President Explains

Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the resignation of Benny Gantz from Israel's emergency government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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[earthforge]

ISREAL has a Right to self determination and self defense how about we worry about America1st

[YonieZukowsky]

It doesn't matter so much whether Netanyahu is popular it matters whether he is doing the right things. Abraham Lincoln wasn't popular during the Civil War but he did the right things and is so remembered.

[arieladelinechoo]

Do you need to be popular to defend your country and people. Or everything you do has to get popular votes by UN, ICC, EU, US?

[saifsaad]

The word ( Esky ) means ( from the mother ). This means that the owner of this surname uses the family name of a woman who immigrated from ME to Europe, meaning that they belong to immigrant women who married Western men, and they continue to use the family name of their immigrant grandmothers to prove their origins and Eastern affiliation. By the way, Benjamin Netanyahu's real name, Malkowsky, is similar to the family name of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. This means that Netanyahu’s grandmother, whose family name bears this name, is a cousin of this prime minister, and she had previously immigrated to the West. This name goes back to a large tribe in Iraq and the Middle East in general, and it is a common name there. and Yes, they are in fact Mizrahi, as is the case with most residents of the south of Iraq.
Of course, the word Mizrahi is a second name for the word gypsy, so...🙄

[DemonHunterX]

Matthew chapter 12 verse 31 and 32.
31 “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. 32 And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

[Balance]

Now Netanyahu is fighting with his own IDF, please someone remove this bum

[outlawbillionairez]

Huh. Satan and his minions say Nasty Ya Hoo is the most popular guy in hell.

[johnnylafayette]

Netanyahu rather chaise them around in circles like Moses walking from Egypt to Jerusalem for 300 years 😂😂😂😂

[lisettegarcia]

Irrelevant dude from an irrelevant org.

[mohammadhamad]

The Palestinian resistance will prevail. Move out of Palestine!
It’s that simple

[DemonHunterX]

I'm guessing because he has blasphemed the Lord God almighty. The unforgivable sin. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Go directly to jail do not pass go do not collect $200!