Israel was told ‘you are not alone’ – but year of war has left it isolated62%

71%Percentage of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents in US who said they had little or no confidence in Netanyahu, in Pew Research published in May

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, famously said: “Our future does not depend on what the gentiles will say, but on what the Jews will do.” His argument was that the Jewish people could no longer be dependent on others as they had been for 2,000 years. Instead they were independent, self-reliant and creators of their own destiny.

Israel was told ‘you are not alone’ – but year of war has left it isolated