Is Israel really isolated? Polls and diplomacy point in opposite directions

President Donald Trump predicted successful caller days that further countries would soon articulation the Abraham Accords, renewing statement implicit whether Israel is becoming progressively isolated oregon continuing to grow its astir important strategical relationships.

"The Abraham Accords person been, I think, a tremendous success," Trump said during a Tuesday Oval Office gathering with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. "I deliberation you’re going to spot a batch of countries joining beauteous soon."

Trump's prediction underscores a cardinal statement astir Israel's planetary position: Public enactment for the state has fallen sharply successful the United States and crossed overmuch of the world, yet Israel continues to physique oregon sphere diplomatic, military, vigor and exertion relationships with overseas governments.

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President Donald Trump predicted successful caller days that further countries would soon articulation the Abraham Accords.  (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Abraham Accords, brokered by the Trump medication successful 2020, normalized relations betwixt Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sunday. Trump has made expanding the agreements a cardinal extremity of his Middle East strategy. 

The quality depends partially connected however isolation is measured. Critics constituent to worsening nationalist opinion, unit astatine planetary institutions and increasing absorption among Democrats and younger voters. Israeli officials and blimpish foreign-policy experts reason that government-to-government practice remains beardown and, successful immoderate regions, is expanding.

Trump reinforced that strategy Thursday by saying a U.S. civilian atomic statement with Saudi Arabia would beryllium connected the kingdom joining the Abraham Accords. The connection showed the medication attempting to usage 1 of Washington’s astir invaluable offers to Riyadh to unafraid normalization with Israel, but it did not show that Saudi Arabia had agreed to bash so.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon rejected the contention that Israel had go isolated.

"The assertion that Israel is an isolated state is simply not true," Danon told Fox News Digital. "While the run to dismantle the Hamas violent enactment has drawn planetary criticism, Israel’s relationships with different countries person not weakened. They person evolved."

Former White House nationalist information authoritative Richard Goldberg likewise argued that Israel retains beardown enactment among conservatives and that its electoral gains are translating into person authorities relations.

"Polling successful the United States shows monolithic enactment among conservatives and Republicans, including self-described MAGA, for Israel still," Goldberg told Fox News Digital. "And that’s reflected astir the world, peculiarly among blimpish candidates and parties that triumph elected bureau close now."

Goldberg pointed to governmental changes successful Latin America, expanding partnerships successful the Eastern Mediterranean and Israel’s continuing defence and exertion relationships arsenic grounds that nationalist disapproval has not translated into broad strategical isolation.

The quality comes amid polling that shows Israel retaining heavy enactment among Republicans portion losing crushed crossed the broader American electorate and overmuch of the world.

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Anti-Israel protests successful Istanbul. (Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images)

Eighty percent of self-identified MAGA Republicans said Israel’s information matters to U.S. information and prosperity, a Reagan Institute survey released successful June found, portion 73% supported sending Israel U.S. weapons. Among MAGA Republicans nether 30, 63% said Israel’s information matters to the United States and 60% supported sending weapons.

The aforesaid survey recovered that broader enactment was narrowing. Sixty-five percent of Americans said Israel’s information matters to U.S. information and prosperity, down six percent points from a twelvemonth earlier. 

The fig fell 9 points among Democrats to 57%, compared with 75% of Republicans and 80% of MAGA Republicans.

A Pew Research Center survey published successful June recovered that a median of 67% of adults crossed 36 countries viewed Israel unfavorably, portion 25% viewed it favorably. The findings came from Pew’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey.

In the United States, 60% of adults viewed Israel unfavorably, up from 53% successful 2025 and 42% successful 2022, according to a abstracted Pew survey conducted March 23 to March 29. Eighty percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents held an unfavorable view, portion antagonistic assessments were besides wide among adults nether 50.

Israel nary longer held a statistically important vantage implicit the Palestinians successful Americans’ sympathies, Gallup reported successful February. Forty-one percent said they sympathized much with the Palestinians and 36% with the Israelis, though Gallup said the five-point quality was not statistically significant. 

In 2023, 54% sympathized much with Israelis and 31% with Palestinians.

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel highlighted that erosion during a July 8 code astatine Tel Aviv University.

"Support for Israel astir the satellite is declining," Emanuel said, "The lone diplomatic accomplishment Israel has secured successful the past 3 years is Somaliland."

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Anti-Israel activists clasp banners that include, "globalize the intifada" during a protestation commemorating Nakba Day May 15, 2025, successful the Brooklyn, New York. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Emanuel’s decision focuses connected Israel’s declining nationalist legitimacy and its strained presumption successful accepted diplomatic institutions. Goldberg and Danon reason that it overlooks expanding government-to-government relationships built astir defense, intelligence, energy, exertion and trade.

Goldberg pointed successful peculiar to Latin America, wherever helium said recently elected blimpish governments person made person ties with Israel an aboriginal priority.

"Every clip a authorities successful South America close present flips from near helping to close wing, 1 of the archetypal things they bash is reestablish amended relations with Israel, retreat designation of a Palestinian authorities and spot what other they tin bash to marque Israel a strategical partner," Goldberg said.

He cited Argentina nether President Javier Milei and the projected "Isaac Accords," on with governmental changes successful Chile, Colombia and Bolivia, arsenic grounds of a broader realignment.

Goldberg besides argued that Israel remains cardinal to emerging partnerships involving energy, defense, quality and captious infrastructure.

"If you’re successful the Eastern Mediterranean and you’re Greece and you are Cyprus, you’re reasoning astir however bash we enactment with Israel to marque the Eastern Mediterranean concern adjacent stronger," helium said. "If you’re Armenia and Azerbaijan successful a pugnacious vicinity betwixt Turkey and Iran, you’re talking to Israel, you’re getting person to Israel."

Israel, Greece and Cyprus reaffirmed their strategical concern during a trilateral acme successful December 2025, agreeing to grow practice successful energy, security, exigency preparedness and determination connectivity.

Danon said the diplomatic displacement is disposable adjacent wrong the United Nations, an instauration wherever Israel routinely faces captious resolutions and nationalist condemnation.

"We spot this each time successful the corridors of the United Nations," helium said. "While galore South American countries were erstwhile highly captious of Israel successful caller years, we are present cooperating with galore of them. These discussions are happening successful nationalist and down the scenes."

"As Israel’s authoritative typical to the United Nations, I regularly conscionable with ambassadors from astir the world, including from Arab countries, to softly beforehand initiatives wherever we stock communal interests," Danon said.

Danon went further than Goldberg successful assessing Israel’s presumption since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas violent attacks and the consequent war.

"Compared to the play earlier October 7th, Israel is successful a acold stronger geostrategic position," Danon said. "That is reflected not lone successful determination developments but besides successful the country’s diplomatic relationships astir the world."

The competing grounds suggests that overmuch of the disagreement depends connected however isolation is defined.

Israel whitethorn beryllium losing nationalist enactment and power successful accepted planetary institutions portion simultaneously preserving oregon expanding government-to-government practice successful defense, technology, intelligence, vigor and agriculture.

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European Union Council President, Charles Michel (center), Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) conscionable successful January 2020 successful West Jerusalem.  (PhKobi Gideon / GPO / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Goldberg acknowledged that relationships driven by blimpish governmental victories could go susceptible erstwhile governments change.

But helium argued that Israel is progressively gathering relationships astir durable nationalist interests alternatively than governmental ideology alone.

The cardinal hazard for Israel is that today’s illness successful nationalist sentiment could yet reshape tomorrow’s authorities policies. Conservative governments whitethorn presently support and grow strategical ties, but younger voters and left-wing parties could change those relationships aft aboriginal elections.

Israel is scheduled to clasp nationalist elections Oct. 27, the country’s archetypal since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

Goldberg argued that a alteration successful Israel’s authorities would supply a trial of whether planetary absorption is directed chiefly astatine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu oregon astatine Israel itself.

"If determination is idiosyncratic other who becomes premier curate next, we volition person to evaluate," Goldberg said. "Those precise large detractors of Israel who close present usage Netanyahu arsenic their awesome for bashing and accidental it’s not astir Israel, it’s astir Netanyahu, they’ll beryllium enactment to the trial precise quickly."

He noted that the boycott question and anti-Israel field organizations remained progressive during the erstwhile authorities led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, erstwhile Netanyahu was not premier minister.

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President Donald Trump predicted successful caller days that further countries would soon articulation the Abraham Accords, renewing statement implicit whether Israel is becoming progressively isolated oregon continuing to grow its astir important strategical relationships.

"Is their hatred and venom truly conscionable astir Bibi Netanyahu, oregon is it fundamentally astir a Jewish authorities that they don’t similar existing?" Goldberg asked.

For now, some realities look to beryllium unfolding astatine once: Israel remains a sought-after military, quality and exertion spouse for a increasing radical of governments, portion its enactment among the planetary nationalist has fallen to levels that could yet endanger those relationships.