Netanyahu's exploitation of the Christian right is blowing up in his face

Creating this unholy alliance of extremists was a complex, roundabout task. But over the past two years, since the start of the war that some evangelist preachers have called the war of Gog and Magog that they had been yearning for, we have seen its collapse

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Netanyahu's exploitation of the Christian right is blowing up in his face

12:01 AM • May 03 2026 IDT

For many years, Benjamin Netanyahu – with the help of a well-oiled machine of organizations, donors and advisers – oversaw the formation of an artificial alliance between the Christian right (mainly, though not exclusively, in the U.S.) and the Jewish right.

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