Could the US midterms further isolate Israel in Washington?

As the midterm votes trickled in on Tuesday and Democrats locked up majorities in both chambers of the United States Congress, Republicans began pointing fingers at the Trump administration’s increasingly unpopular foreign policies.“The real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone,” Vice President JD Vance said on X, blaming the war on Iran, which has triggered soaring fuel prices and a $47bn bill, for souring voters on the Republican Party. Many, already appalled at US-funded Israeli genocide in Gaza and the occupation of southern Lebanon, also view the Trump administration as having been convinced to launch strikes on Iran on February 28 by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu government, which insisted without evidence that Iran was “close” to developing a nuclear weapon.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Security ⁠officer killed in stabbing attack in Jordan’s capitallist 2 of 4Workers strike across France, hundreds of thousands expected to protestlist 3 of 4New Yorkers rally against gun violence after Ghanaian teen’s killinglist 4 of 4Cristiano Ronaldo announces international retirementend of listAn unnamed pollster, Vance said, had asked voters who had switched parties ...