Corey Herman

Jon Finer has done a remarkable service by publishing a political declaration of war on the future of the State of Israel. There is no pretense in his manifesto that this is about Netanyahu. He says quite plainly that the most historic centrist coalition in Israel’s history, the first to include Arab parties, was just as bad in his mind as Netanyahu’s government - and that whoever replaces Netanyahu would be just as bad, if not worse to him. This is no longer Mehdi Hassan or El Seyed talking, but a former senior Biden official. He unmasks himself as a full-fledged BDS activist, determined to use every lever of American power to pressure Israel into unilaterally withdrawing to indefensible borders. He launches a direct attack on the notion America and Israel have shared values - questioning whether Israel is a democracy and framing Israelis as the terrorist threat to the region. He is not just proposing sanctions or a cut off of arms sales. He is proposing a full-scale maximum pressure campaign akin to how we treat Iran and North Korea: political and diplomatic warfare, financial and economic warfare, and a severing of military support and cooperation, and indeed at least indirect military support to Israel’s (and America’s) enemies. Every American who sees the pictures out of France must understand that is the ideological anchor for Finer’s declaration of war on Israel. This is but one key line of effort in a perverted campaign to undermine traditional American values and core interests in favor of a very different and frightening Marxist vision for America. I will have much more to say after the Israeli election this week. For now, a reminder of the core national security interests at stake for America to win the century by working with model allies like Israel. nationalreview.com/2026/10/i…