It’s hard to imagine Donald Trump getting any more unbalanced than he already is, but here we are. He has been using the tragedy in the Middle East to go after the man he was once friends with, Benjamin Netanyahu, making the crisis all about himself in the process.

Since the Hamas attack that sparked the latest round of violence in the 75-year war between Israel and Palestine, Trump has said plenty of negative things — as expected — about Hamas. But he’s also gone after Israel’s Prime Minister, despite a formerly friendly relationship.

Why did things sour? Two reasons. Number one, Netanyahu declined to go along with a planned US airstrike against Iran. Trump says that Netanyahu “let us down” by backing out of the arrangement, which America ultimately carried out anyway. That attack killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

“We had everything all set to go, and the night before it happened, I got a call that Israel will not be participating in this attack,” Trump said at a rally last Wednesday.

But the bigger reason for Trump’s animus toward Netanyahu is a more personal one. The former President is a staunch believer that if you’re friends, you should support everything someone does or says, regardless of whether it’s wrong. So when Netanyahu publicly decided not to buy into Trump’s myth of a stolen election in 2020, the twice-impeached former leader was furious.

And according to multiple sources, impeachment is exactly what he’d like to see happen to Netanyahu.

Trump was asked what he would do about the situation in the Middle East if he were elected President again, and although he has voiced a number of ideas that generally align with what most Republicans might say — cutting off all aid to Palestinians and capturing Hamas leaders — he has also said that he’d like to see Netanyahu gone before he enters office again.

Now, fingers crossed that Trump never gets near the Oval Office again. But at least we don’t have to worry about him getting his way in Israel. The Parliament there cannot impeach a Prime Minister the way Congress can here in the United States.

Trump’s reasoning is that the Hamas attack followed what can only be described as a massive intelligence failure on the part of Israel, which Trump sees as having been “on Netanyahu’s watch.”

But privately, Trump has made it abundantly clear that his hatred of Netanyahu is more personal than political. He’s called Netanyahu “weak” and compared him to the vast majority of American Jews who are supporters of President Joe Biden.

In fact, in December of 2021, Trump was quoted as saying “The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. … Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake.”

He went on to say “I haven’t spoken to him since. F*ck him.”