US President Donald Trump faces a complex political dilemma threatening to undermine one of the most important pillars of his political popularity, which is the slogan “America first”, which he carried for the White House twice.
While the Israeli Prime Minister presses Benjamin Netanyahu -Required International Criminal Court– Ledger US To a direct war against IranThe opposition voices are escalating from within the base Trump Herself, which puts it in a critical position between conflicting interests.
The roots of this challenge lies in the fact that the slogan “America first” does not represent just a political phrase, but rather carries an ideological and deep national load in which the Trump base reads that the previous departments did not give the American interest the priority it deserves, and has given other countries from many American rights, whether in the funding of NATO (NATO) Or in commercial agreements.
According to episode (6/1925/19) of the “From Washington” program, Netanyahu is trying to win American public opinion, as he presented in an interview with ABC his argument that Israel is not only fighting its enemy, but also the “American enemy”.
Netanyahu said, “They chant the death of Israel to death to America, and we simply stand on their way so that they do not reach you soon. These crazy people pledged to destroy us to destroy you, they want to possess nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to target you,” Netanyahu said.
But these arguments faced a response from the Republican Representative Margori Taylor Green -one of the most prominent aspects of “Maga Movement(Make America great again)- which accused the Israelis of “washing the brains of the American people to believe that America should fight these external wars in order to stay.”
She added in a direct response to Netanyahu’s statements: “I heard Netanyahu say today that” America first “means the end of America, and this seems to me a threat, and I completely disagree with him in that.”
Green also criticized the internal Israeli policy, describing it as the real engine for Netanyahu going to war against Iran.
Vandalism of diplomatic efforts
In a remarkable development, the Republican Representative agreed with democratic criticism at one point, as the Jewish democratic Sunnah Bernie Sanders – who is one of the most opponents of Israeli policies in the Palestinian file – accused Netanyahu of waging the war on Iran “to sabotage diplomatic efforts with Tehran,” stressing that Netanyahu began this war with a sudden, unilateral attack on Iran, which has so far killed hundreds and wounded much larger numbers.
On the other hand, Republican Senator Ted Cruz – known for his absolute supportive positions of Israel – defended the Israeli military operations in Iran.
According to his opinion, this week was good for America because Iran is “a very dangerous enemy who killed more than 600 American soldiers, the main financier of terrorism worldwide, and tries to obtain nuclear weapons to kill not hundreds of Americans, but millions of Americans.”
Modern opinion polls revealed a widespread American opposition to direct military intervention in the war between Israel and Iran.
In a poll conducted by the Yugov Foundation with the Economist magazine, the results showed that 60% of American respondents do not support the United States’ intervention directly in that war, while only 16% of the respondents support this intervention.
On the political level, it was found that 65% of Democrats oppose American direct intervention against Iran militarily, and 51% of independents oppose that intervention, and most importantly, 53% of Republicans oppose this intervention as well, a number that reflects the division within the Trump base itself.
Regarding these numbers, John Zoghbi, the founder of the Zoghbi Foundation for Strategic Studies and Plots, explained that it is difficult to go to war if you have a majority that opposes this war.
He added that the current situation differs from 2003 before the American intervention in IraqWhen the nation was divided between those who supported going to war in Iraq and those who oppose this war.
19/6/2025