No.

Giving Netanyahu ‘what-for’, in my understanding, would be …

… stating that the US would immediately cease all further shipments of any military materiel and financial aid to Israel that can be used offensively (ie, not Patriot Systems or Iron Dome)…

… and that if Netanyahu does not cease his expansion into Lebanon, withdraw from it, withdraw from Gaza, allow food, medical aid and journalists into Gaza…

… and resign from his position as President and his dismiss his entire cabinet, and agree to face at least the numerous domestic charges of corruption against him in court, in Israel…

Those last two parts have a 60 day timeframe.

If those aren’t met, cut off everything, freeze Netanyahu and high up Likkud party member’s personal finances the way we did with Russia.

… Something like that would be giving Netanyahu what for.

That was obviously never on the table.

Kamala just would have continued running propaganda defense for Israel as Biden had done, watching more and more ‘red lines’ get blown through and giving some meaningless bs explanation why, if even acknowleding it at all.

Maybe she would be slightly more vocal about allowing aid in. She would not actually do anything to make that happen, but maybe she’d make a tiny bit of a show of it.

She said it herself. No meaningful differences from Biden’s approach.

So yeah in that regard, you have ludicrously wishful thinking. You must not know very much about bog standard corporate mouthpiece flavored Democrats.

Would this have been better than Trump?

Yes. Despite his extremely dubious public claims to want to end wars, he will obviously greenlight even more military aid to Israel, probably directly provoke Iran publically, either conduct or help the Israelis conduct a wave of air assaults on Iranian nuclear infrastructure, probably more than that.

Basically he’ll demand all the stuff we’ve given to Ukraine back, give it to Israel, and heavily pressure if not outright demand Ukraine surrender by the end of April.