What's missing in all these Israel Firsters' meltdowns attacking Trump is an acknowledgement that Trump tried to give them their war for Greater Israel but simply failed. They all do this "Here's how Bernie can still win" schtick insisting that if Trump just went harder we could win. Shapiro for example said last month that Trump should "just blow up Kharg Island." It's the "easiest move for the US to make right now," he said, ignoring the fact Iran had said they'd respond to such an attack by blowing up oil infrastructure throughout the Gulf and plunging the world into a global depression. Shapiro acts like these real-world constraints don't exist and Iran doesn't get a vote. There's no acknowledgement whatsoever from Shapiro or Mark Levin that the US—and Israel—simply lost. On day one of the war, the US bombed a girls' school, and Israel botched their plan to have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lead a coup by injuring him in a bombing that had been designed to free him from house arrest. These massive blunders were followed by Israel conducting a terror bombing of Tehran's oil facilities—punishing the civilian population and poisoning them with toxic fumes followed by toxic rain. Those bombings made whatever support there was among the civilian population for regime change evaporate overnight. Hegseth too went on TV and gave away all US moral authority by stating, "This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be." Trump then in early April—frustrated with how poorly the war was going—made his infamous post threatening that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Again, this killed any hope of regime change as it made clear that the enemies of the Iranian regime are working for the destruction of Persian civilization. Everyone knew from the start of the war that the American public had no appetite for a massive regime change war, so simply blaming the American public (or even Trump himself) for our lack of "will"—as Mark Levin has done—also doesn't pass muster. Their refusal to deal in reality and their insistence on blaming everyone but Netanyahu is not only extremely dishonest, but an insult to their audience. They don't actually care, of course, because serving the interests of Israel is ultimately their only goal. They know they can just "jump ship" and take off to Tel Aviv—consoling themselves in the belief they'll be protected by the Samson Option.
