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\u201cIn the White House, we are relying on one person,\u201d he said. \u201cMany in Israel are betting the future of relations with the United States on Marco Rubio, who has not even won a presidential primary. That is a very dangerous gamble.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayman said Israel\u2019s predicament is tied partly to broader cultural and political upheaval inside the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are serious American problems involving a loss of moral and ideological direction in the more extreme woke areas of the left,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are lawyers specializing in animal rights over human rights, strange developments that produced a backlash.\u201d<\/p>\n
He argued that well-funded campaigns then connected America\u2019s national future to the Palestinian cause, particularly through Qatari funding of media platforms and universities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey found a fault line that could be exploited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Israel also faces a growing challenge on the American right, Hayman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe backlash against the progressive left created hostility toward foreigners and immigrants, and a desire to return to white Protestant nationalism, with the white church and the cross at the center of town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn parts of the deep American right, Jews are perceived as a hostile force. They state openly that Israel is an enemy of the United States and speak about Jews in terms not very different from what we saw in Germany in the 1930s.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is hatred of Jews and antisemitism on parts of the right, and hatred of Israel and Zionism on parts of the left,\u201d Hayman said. \u201cAmong young people, this is growing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He warned that the climate also endangers younger pro-Israel American Jews.<\/p>\n
\u201cJewish parents have children who are afraid to say, \u2018I am a Zionist,\u2019 because Zionism is now perceived in the United States as a word equivalent to fascism and the worst things imaginable,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople are ashamed of their Zionism even though they love Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Israel must present a vision\u2019<\/p>\n
Despite the trend, Hayman said Israel must not abandon efforts to influence American public opinion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an enormous audience predisposed to support Israel, namely American Jews, and we are giving up on them because most are not Orthodox,\u201d he said. \u201cThat community is important.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Israel must also present a political vision that restores its image as a small, innovative country seeking peace and security.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to present a path, some kind of solution, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that offers hope,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Palestinian state may not be achievable at present, but the principle matters. Israel must say what it wants to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayman also urged Israel not to neglect Europe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael is not alone in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is also Europe, which we have abandoned in security terms, and we must not do that. We are part of Europe\u2019s economic, cultural and security fabric.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayman, who continues to serve as a reservist in Military Intelligence and played a central role in Operation Rising Lion, also addressed reports of a major American attack on Iran that was postponed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as there is no genuine and significant benefit that changes reality, and President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do not believe it is worth the cost, they will look for something else,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat was proposed was more of the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone familiar with Iran, he said, understands that another military strike intended merely to inflict pain would not force Tehran to retreat or accept conditions it has rejected until now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe price you may pay for such limited benefit is probably not worthwhile,\u201d he said, adding that interceptor stockpiles were also a factor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will always examine two clocks and two scenarios: the fall of the regime and a nuclear Iran. Which will come first?\u201d Hayman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my assessment, Israel will not tolerate Iran crossing a certain threshold in its nuclear development, though we will not define that threshold now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIran is not standing still and continues to act in this field,\u201d he added. \u201cUltimately, regimes like this fall. The only question is whether Iran obtains the ultimate insurance policy of authoritarian regimes first: a nuclear bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American public opinion is becoming increasingly hostile toward Israel. The shift began among Democrats, where positions once confined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-564118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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