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Is it all Bibi Netanyahu’s fault?There’s little question that his relentless warmongering – and the chilling toll of civilian casualties – is turning Israel into a pariah state.While Israel was an effective partner in joining President Trump – some say prodding him – in attacking Iran, the two sides are now very much at odds. Trump has called him "f------ crazy" and told him "you’d be in prison if it wasn’t for me."IRAN WAR'S PRICE TAG HITS $80B — MORE THAN DOUBLE WHAT CONGRESS WAS TOLDPresident Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.(SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)Netanyahu faces a corruption trial that has been repeatedly postponed because of Israel’s war against Hamas and now Iran. "All the Jews are sick of you," Trump told the prime minister last year, according to the Maggie Haberman/Jonathan Swan book "Regime Change," when the president was trying to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza.Trump is particularly angry with Bibi right now because his continued attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon have undermined his efforts to strike an agreement with the Iranians. TRUMP SEEKS $672M TO STOP IRANIAN NUKES AS NEGOTIATORS WEIGH FATE OF URANIUM STOCKPILEHe says he’s creating a security zone to protect his country and that the U.S.
would do the same thing.There has long been a natural sympathy for Israel as the only thriving democracy in the Middle East. It was immediately attacked by its Arab neighbors when, in the wake of the Holocaust, it was created by the United Nations in 1948. While the Jewish state has since made peace with some of its neighbors – notably Egypt, thanks to Jimmy Carter – other Arab nations insist that Israel has no right to exist.Yet Netanyahu has fiercely opposed a two-state solution that would create an independent Palestinian country, and Israel has been accused of becoming an apartheid state.There was a new wav...