UPDATE: “Benyamin Netanyahu is distancing Israel from its European and American allies like never before”
According to recent reports, the following story has emerged from the international scene.
When Israelis go to the polls in October, they will have to decide on one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s assessments: the growing isolation of the Jewish state. The Israeli Prime Minister admitted this in September 2025, while the symbolic recognition of the State of Palestine was progressing at the United Nations. The more wars led by Israel accumulate, the more this isolation grows. The devastating images for Israel add up one after the other, like the one published on April 19 which shows an Israeli soldier hitting with a sledgehammer a statue of Christ thrown to the ground in a conquered Christian village in southern Lebanon. They can be allegorical, like the shocking cover of the Italian magazine L’Espresso, on April 10. This headline highlights the arbitrariness that reigns in the West Bank, summed up by the confrontation between an armed settler and a Palestinian woman. The effect of these images is always the same: they distance the Jewish state from its European and American allies like never before. On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Shoah, on April 13, the Israeli Prime Minister took the lead in blaming the responsibility for this isolation on a Europe which, according to him, had “forgotten so much since the Holocaust”. This Europe “today consumed by a profound moral weakness”, according to the Israeli official, “is losing control of its identity, its values and its commitment to protecting civilization against barbarism”. Contortions This speech was in line with the national security strategy published by the Donald Trump administration in December 2025. But it came after the electoral rout suffered by the man who stood as a European ideological counter-example for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Hungarian Prime Minister. Viktor Orban was the only one within the European Union (EU) to receive his counterpart despite the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for the conduct of the war in Gaza, after the massacres of October 7, 2023 perpetrated by Palestinian Hamas. His successor, Péter Magyar, announced that this exception was now a thing of the past. You have 62.68% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
The Bigger Picture:
This development could have far-reaching consequences for global politics in the months ahead.
The implications of this story extend beyond borders and could affect millions of people globally.
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