‘Yesssss!’: Israel reacts to Donald Trump’s return to power in US election
Al Jazeera
It will be ‘slaughter as usual’ for Israel in Gaza and Lebanon under the incoming Trump administration, analysts say.
Even before the US presidential election polls had closed on Tuesday night, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir had taken to Twitter, posting “Yesssss” in English, while adding emojis of a flexing bicep and images of the Israeli and American flags.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was only slightly slower in congratulating Trump on his triumph in the US presidential election, becoming the first world leader to do so and framing Trump’s victory as a “powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America”.
Two days before this week’s election, which saw former US President Donald Trump stage one of the wildest political comebacks in recent history, leading the Republican Party to a landslide victory, polls in Israeli media showed Trump had already won the hearts and minds of many in Israel.
In last day of campaigning for Republican, Democratic presidential candidates, polls indicate race couldn’t be tighter.
My grandfather survived the first Nakba in 1948; he didn’t make it to the end of the second – this war waged by Israel.
Trump’s first term showed that while a win for him could help Russia in Ukraine, it would bring its own challenges, too.
The candidates will hold rallies in Nevada today, where Harris will be joined by Jennifer Lopez.