Transcript [00:03] Hey everyone. So, Medi Hassan posted [00:06] something a couple days ago on X that a [00:09] lot of people are talking about. Medi [00:10] Hassan, if you don't know who he is, he [00:12] is a media figure, kind of journalist, [00:16] analyst guy. He's a Muslim. He's very [00:19] anti-Israel, very prominent figure in [00:21] certain quarters of media. Anyway, he [00:23] put up a post on X. Let me show it to [00:25] you right here. And here it is. And a [00:30] lot of people are talking about this [00:31] post. You see, he he cited a an Israeli [00:34] polling uh site that said political [00:36] affiliation firsttime Jewish voters in [00:39] Israel 18 to 22, [00:43] 74% right or center right, 23% [00:48] left or center left. So Medi said in [00:51] most countries young voters are more [00:53] left-wing than their right-wing elders. [00:56] in Israel, it's the reverse. That's [00:59] Medie's comment. [01:02] Well, [01:04] uh, he's he's again, this is what he's [01:06] quoting here is a new Channel 12 poll of [01:09] first-time Jewish voters. Channel 12 is [01:10] one of the major probably the biggest [01:14] mainstream media outlet in Israel. And [01:17] again, 74% of firsttime voters, those [01:20] voters aged 18 to 22, say that they are [01:23] right or center right. Now, first of [01:26] all, he's right. That is the data. I'm [01:28] not going to argue with the numbers. [01:29] That is correct. What I want to argue [01:31] with, though, is the explanation that [01:33] people are giving because I've been [01:35] watching how pro-Israel accounts are [01:38] responding to Medi Hassan's expost and [01:40] almost everybody is saying the same [01:42] thing. And I think it's actually uh [01:45] somewhat only somewhat accurate and is [01:48] actually feeding Medi Hassan's [01:50] narrative. Let me show you. So, here's [01:52] an example. Seth Franceman, someone I [01:54] respect greatly, a really prominent [01:55] journalist here in Israel, said he [01:58] responds by saying, "Someone thought [02:00] they could murder hundreds of people at [02:02] the Nova Festival and their families and [02:04] siblings would not rise up to avenge [02:06] them and that their political choices [02:09] would be far more right than those at [02:11] the festival." Don't murder people [02:13] dancing at a festival if you don't want [02:14] their people to become hardened. Those [02:17] people were more left-leaning. Think [02:20] about it. You want to harden someone's [02:22] heart, murder all their friends and [02:24] family and people they know and they'll [02:25] grow hard and they will strike back. In [02:28] other words, what he's saying is, of [02:29] course, they move to the right, these [02:31] first-time voters, because look at [02:33] October 7th. Uh, and you have something [02:35] similar from Alon Levy, former spokesman [02:38] for the prime minister, a very uh very [02:41] prominent account. What does he write? [02:43] He he responds to Medi Hassan by saying, [02:45] "Funny what happens when you invade [02:46] those young voters music festivals and [02:49] burn them alive." and commit barbaric [02:51] sexual atrocities. Also attributing it [02:53] to October 7th. And Medi Hassan [02:57] responded. He responded to Seth [02:59] Franceman. But you see what he says [03:00] here. Think about the logic of this [03:02] statement. If Palestinians killing a [03:04] thousand Israelis allows young Israelis [03:06] to justify supporting racist genocidal [03:09] monsters, what does killing 73,000 [03:11] Palestinians allow young Palestinians to [03:13] justify doing? In other words, what Medi [03:16] Hassan is saying is that wait a second, [03:18] if you're saying that the reason for [03:20] this shift to the right is October 7th, [03:23] which is what Medias Assan was he didn't [03:26] say he didn't make any comment. He just [03:28] pointed out that young Israelis are more [03:30] right-wing than the older generation and [03:32] that that is and that's different than [03:35] the trend everywhere else in the world. [03:38] But it's entirely likely that he was [03:40] pointing at this saying, "Look at these [03:42] young Israelis. they're they're, you [03:43] know, they're nationalistic and they're [03:45] and they're right-wing and this is all [03:47] this this knee-jerk reaction, so to [03:50] speak, to October 7th, which is really [03:53] what Alon Levy and Seth Franceman and [03:55] many other pro-Israel accounts were [03:56] saying. And now, look, October 7th does [04:00] matter. I'm not going to pretend it [04:02] doesn't, but that answer, like I said, [04:04] it kind of concedes Medie's framing. It [04:07] says that this is a trauma reaction, a [04:09] backlash, something that happened to [04:11] Israeli young people that will that [04:13] could actually fade once the wounds heal [04:15] or it's, you know, there's something [04:17] that's just it's just anger and lashing [04:19] out. It's vengeful. [04:21] But that's not what the data actually [04:22] shows. The real story of the shift to [04:25] the right among younger Israelis is much [04:27] older. It's much deeper and honestly, [04:30] it's much more interesting. So that's [04:31] what I want to show you in this video. [04:33] Let's start with the timeline. If this [04:36] were an October 7th story, you'd expect [04:38] young Israelis to have been more [04:41] left-wing [04:43] before October 7th, right? It would [04:45] stand to reason based on everything that [04:47] we've said up until now, based on what [04:49] Seth Franceman said, what Adon Levy [04:51] said, we would expect that if we go back [04:53] to polling from before October 7th, we [04:56] will see young Israelis like everyone [04:59] else. Right? Right. Cuz Medi was saying, [05:01] "What do you mean? In the rest of the [05:02] world, young people are more leftwing, [05:05] and in Israel, they're more right-wing." [05:06] And oh, if it's because October 7th, so [05:08] before October 7th, they should have [05:10] been like everyone else, or at the very [05:12] least, no different than their parents [05:14] before October 2023. So, let's check. [05:17] Well, the Israel Democracy Institute, [05:19] not a right-wing outfit, by the way, [05:21] this is the mainstream establishment [05:23] think tank in Israel, they publish [05:26] something every year called the Israeli [05:28] Democracy Index. [05:31] And in their 2018 index, so that's [05:34] already eight years ago, about 64% [05:39] of Israeli Jews aged 18 to 34 identified [05:44] as right-wing. For people 35 and older, [05:48] it was only 47%. That's 2018. [05:53] Okay. 64% 18 to 34, 35 and older, 47%. [05:59] That's 8 years ago, long before October [06:01] 7th. And in the April 2019 election, [06:06] IDI's polling found that 65% of Jewish [06:09] Israelis aged 18 to 24 wanted Netanyahu [06:13] to win over his opponent, the more [06:16] centrist or center-leaning [06:18] Gans. That was only at 17%, 65 to 17 [06:23] among young Israelis for Netanyahu. And [06:26] here's the one I really want you to see. [06:28] The 2022 Democracy Index 2022. It was [06:33] published in January 2023, [06:36] 9 months prior to October 7th. And what [06:40] does it show us here? Let's take a look [06:42] at this graphic. [06:47] See what you're looking at here. [06:51] They broke it down by age. [06:54] Okay. among Jewish Israelis aged 18 to [06:58] 24. [07:00] This is before October 7th, 73% [07:03] identified as right-wing, aged 25 to 34, [07:06] still young, 75%. And then it goes down [07:10] age group by age group all the way to 65 [07:13] and older at 46%. [07:16] This is what percentage identify as [07:18] rightwing. 73% before October 7th, [07:22] before the war, before any of it. And [07:24] the Israel Democracy Institute said in [07:26] that same report that this pattern, [07:28] young people being more right-wing than [07:30] older people, had held across the 20 [07:33] years that they've been running the [07:35] survey. This goes back a generation or [07:38] more. So now, let's go back to Medie's [07:41] uh Medie's tweet, the poll that he [07:43] tweeted, right? Where is that poll [07:45] again? [07:46] Here. In most countries, young voters [07:50] are more left-wing than their right-wing [07:51] elders. In Israel, it's the reverse. [07:55] 74% [07:57] of firsttime voters, 18 to 22, are [08:00] right-wing. Only 23% [08:03] leftwing. That's the poll that Medi [08:04] cited. [08:08] That's basically the same number as [08:09] before October 7th. What did I just show [08:11] you in the prior to October 7th number [08:14] that I just shared with you? Let's go [08:16] back to it. I'm sorry. Here it is. Oh, I [08:18] left it up on the screen here. 73%. And [08:21] here's Medy's poll again. Sorry. Here's [08:24] Medy's poll. [08:26] I'm getting a little uh getting my [08:28] technical skills a little weak here. [08:30] Here we go. Look at the poll. Right, [08:34] center, right, 74%, left, center, left, [08:37] 23%. [08:39] And now back to the This is pre-occtober [08:43] 7th. [08:45] What percentage of young people are [08:46] right? 73 to 75%. [08:50] meaning the numbers didn't actually [08:51] change after October 7th. [08:56] So, the young people did not change. [08:58] It's the older voters that changed. You [09:00] see, back in February of this year, [09:03] Channel 12 ran a poll that asked the [09:05] same question to both groups at the same [09:08] time, firsttime voters and everyone who [09:11] has voted before. 75% in that poll, 75% [09:15] of firsttime voters called themselves [09:18] right-wing. And among the older veteran [09:20] voters, it was 68% [09:23] who called themselves right-wing. Now, [09:25] compare that to the Democracy Index from [09:27] before October 7th. Back then, the young [09:30] were at 73% [09:32] and Israelis 65 and older were at 46%, a [09:37] gap of more than 25 points. And today, [09:39] the gap has narrowed. So, these are [09:42] different polls from different [09:43] pollsters. So, don't treat it as the [09:45] exact same numbers. So, it's not this is [09:48] not this I'm not being super super [09:50] precise here. I'm just pointing at the [09:52] direction. The direction is [09:54] unmistakable. Again, let's just sum up [09:56] what we've seen so far. The numbers of [09:58] what percentage of young Israelis [10:00] consider themselves right-wing. Now, is [10:02] not a reaction to October 7th. We saw [10:04] those numbers prior to October 7th as [10:06] well. With all due respect to Seth [10:08] Franceman, Alon Levy, and all the others [10:10] who are responding to Medi Hassan, the [10:13] kids were already there. October 7th [10:16] pushed other Israelis closer to where [10:19] the kids are. [10:21] Okay. And this isn't just one uh [10:24] individual pollster. Okay. Let me show [10:26] you a news item from earlier this year. [10:30] Let me pull it up. Here we go. [10:35] And [10:39] here it is. Jerusalem Post from uh way [10:42] back in when was this? April. Young [10:46] Israeli voters shifting right. Netanyahu [10:48] leads his preferred candidate. This is [10:50] in April. According to a recent Mariv [10:52] poll published this past week conducted [10:54] by laser research led by Dr. Manakam [10:56] Lazar or Lazar research led by by Dr. [10:59] Dr. Manakam Lazar in collaboration with [11:01] whatever uh a majority of firsttime [11:04] voters in Israel in the upcoming Knesset [11:06] elections young people between the ages [11:08] of 18 and 22 identify as rightwing. The [11:10] survey finds that 56% of this age group [11:13] considers itself right-wing compared [11:15] with 44% of Israelis aged 23 and older. [11:18] Among younger Israelis, 22% describe [11:21] themselves as center right. So it's 22 [11:23] plus 56 is right or center right. That [11:26] gives you 78% are right or center right. [11:31] 14% as centrist compared with 27% of [11:34] older Israelis and only 8% of young [11:37] Israelis identifier as center left or [11:40] left wing. 8%. [11:44] Got that? And that poll didn't only [11:47] survey Jews. It included Arab citizens [11:49] too. So, among Israelis 23 and older, [11:54] Lazar, this polling agency had the [11:56] right-wing numbers at at uh at 44%. [12:00] That's hard, right? So, if it's not [12:03] October 7th, what is it? [12:08] Well, think about why young people in [12:10] the West lean left in the first place. [12:12] Like Medi Hassan just treats it like a [12:14] law of nature. Young people are [12:15] leftwing. Israel's different. But it [12:17] isn't a law of nature. It's a [12:19] description of a particular kind of [12:21] society. In most of the developed world, [12:24] young people today are less religious [12:25] than their parents. They marry later [12:28] than their parents did or not at all. [12:31] They have fewer children than their [12:33] parents had or they have none. [12:35] And a generation like that tends to be [12:37] detached from tradition, from uh nation, [12:41] from the idea of a future that belongs [12:43] to their children. That's the soil that [12:47] the western youth left [12:50] grows in. [12:52] Now, Israel is the one developed country [12:54] where that that that doesn't exist. [12:58] It's a different ethos. Let me show you [13:00] that with hard numbers. A few months [13:02] ago, I did a video where I went through [13:03] the OECD family database. If you don't [13:06] know what the OECD is, it's the [13:08] Organization for Economic Cooperation [13:10] and Development. Okay? It's a group of [13:12] about 40 of the world's wealthiest [13:15] democracies. [13:17] Let me take this off the screen. U the [13:19] United States, Canada, Britain, most of [13:21] Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, [13:23] Israel. When people talk about the [13:26] developed world, that's what they mean. [13:27] They mean the list of OECD countries. [13:29] Okay, that's the OECD. So, the OECD [13:32] collects official statistics from all of [13:34] its member countries, and it's all [13:36] measured the same way. So, you can [13:37] compare them side by side. So, it's not [13:39] an Israeli source. It's not a Jewish [13:41] source. And here's why that matters for [13:43] this conversation. When Medi says that [13:45] young people in most countries lean [13:47] left, the countries where you see that [13:50] pattern most clearly are these [13:51] countries. That's what he's [13:52] [clears throat] talking about. He's not [13:53] talking about, you know, young people in [13:54] Afghanistan or young people in, you [13:56] know, he's talking about the OECD [13:58] countries. When he says most people in [13:59] most countries, most young people in [14:01] left, America, Britain, Western Europe, [14:04] that's the comparison Medi Hassan is [14:06] making. So if Israel's young people [14:08] break the pattern in the developed world [14:13] that they don't lean left, they lean [14:15] right, the obvious question is whether [14:17] Israeli society itself breaks the [14:20] pattern of the developed world. And it [14:22] does in big big ways. So let me bring a [14:24] few of those numbers back. Uh so for [14:27] those of you who who watched this video [14:29] back, I don't know when it was in March [14:30] or something that I did it. Uh some of [14:32] this may be familiar ground to you. [14:35] Well, here let's start with this one. [14:37] Let's start with fertility rate. Okay, [14:41] here is fertility rate children per [14:44] woman. Now, the average fertility rate [14:46] in the OECD in 2024 was 1.4. This is 20 [14:51] 24 numbers. Okay, that's the that's the [14:54] that's the most recent numbers that we [14:55] have published. It was 1.4 children per [14:58] woman. Now, that is below replacement [15:01] level. You need 2.1 for your population [15:04] to simply replace itself. Every single [15:08] OECD country is below 2.1 as of 2024, [15:13] which is terrible. It used to be the [15:15] United States was slightly above. It's [15:16] not anymore. Every OECD country is below [15:19] except for one and it's Israel. And [15:22] Israel is at 2.87. [15:25] Let me say this again. The average in [15:27] the OECD was 1.4 four and Israel is more [15:31] than double that at 2.87 well above the [15:34] replacement number. Okay, that's birth [15:38] rate. That's fertility rate. Now, let's [15:41] do another one. Okay, another uh graphic [15:43] I want to show you. This one is [15:48] average age of women when they first get [15:50] married. [15:52] Okay, I'm going to pull all these [15:53] together in a moment. The average [15:55] Israeli woman gets married around age [15:57] 25. The OECD average is 31. In Spain and [16:03] Sweden, it's around 35. [16:07] Okay. Uh Iceland also 35. [16:12] Israel 25. Okay. Well below the OECD [16:17] average. Okay. Third one. Third stat [16:20] we're going to show you. A fourth stat. [16:22] I guess this is births outside of [16:25] marriage. Births outside of marriage. So [16:28] what's this one? [16:30] What percentage of births are not in the [16:33] context of a married couple? So across [16:36] the OECD, 43% of births. Think about [16:40] that. Almost half. Across the OECD, 43% [16:45] of births happen outside of a marriage. [16:47] Among Israeli Jews, that's how the OECD [16:50] reports the Israeli figure, by the way. [16:51] They're they separate out Israeli Jews. [16:54] among Israeli Jews, it's under 10% under [16:58] 10% of births in is among Israeli Jews [17:02] are outside of a marriage. So now let's [17:04] put all these things back together. [17:07] They're getting married young. They're [17:09] having lots of children in the context [17:11] of marriages. Now here's where it [17:13] connects to the voting within Israel. [17:18] Okay. Within Israel, the more religious [17:20] you are, generally the more children you [17:24] have. According to the to the Israel [17:26] Democracy Institute, [17:29] um ultraorththodox, what's called karedi [17:31] women average about six and a half [17:33] children. I myself have eight children. [17:35] My wife and I have eight children. Um [17:38] Jewish women who are not [17:40] ultraorththodox, not karedi, average [17:43] 2.2, still above replacement. religious [17:46] Zionist families, that's the community [17:47] I'm from, are also have big families as [17:50] well. So that's very common. I have [17:53] eight children, which is a little high [17:54] for my for my community, but it's not [17:56] unheard of. [17:58] And the Israel Democracy Institute also [18:01] shows that year after year that [18:04] religiosity and politics line up. In [18:06] every Jewish religious group except the [18:09] secular, a majority identify as [18:12] right-wing. [18:13] So do the math. Let's put it all [18:15] together now. If religious Israelis have [18:18] more children and religious Israelis [18:21] lean right, then every generation of [18:24] young Israelis is going to be more [18:26] religious and more right-wing than the [18:28] one before it because this hasn't been [18:30] going on for only a couple years. This [18:32] has been going on for decades. [18:34] Okay, this is it's just math. [18:38] It would and it would be happening even [18:40] if there was no October 7th. But I don't [18:42] want to make this only about the [18:44] religious birth rate because it's not [18:45] only that. Even secular Israelis have [18:48] more children than the average in any [18:50] other OECD country. There was a piece in [18:53] Tablet that was just published uh just a [18:57] couple of days ago uh in Tablet [19:00] magazine, great online magazine. If you [19:01] don't read it, you probably should. Um [19:04] called the Israel exception, which is [19:06] all about this. You should go read it. [19:07] It's an interesting piece and it's all [19:09] about Israel as being the exception when [19:11] it comes to family formation, when it [19:13] comes to the issues I'm talking about in [19:14] this video. [19:16] Um, [19:18] so what it says in the in the tablet [19:20] piece is that even without the orthodox, [19:26] meaning even if it was only secular [19:28] Israelis, they would still lead the OECD [19:30] in fertility. [19:32] Okay? Even the secular Israelis by [19:34] themselves would lead the OECD would be [19:36] the leading country. Meaning this is an [19:39] entire society that believes in its own [19:42] future that that engages in family [19:44] formation at a young age. And the young [19:47] generation in Israel isn't just born [19:49] into more religious homes. They're more [19:51] traditional than their parents in their [19:53] own right. That same Channel 12 poll [19:55] from February compared firsttime voters [19:58] to older voters on religion as well. Let [20:02] me pull that up again. [20:04] Let's pull up that article. Here we go. [20:09] And yeah, so we'll go back to it. And [20:12] down here it says [20:15] um more than half of the respondents [20:17] indicated that their sense or practice [20:19] of religious faith has grown stronger [20:22] since October 7th. 54% reported a [20:25] heightened connection to Jewish [20:26] tradition. The surge in religious [20:28] identification comes amid an [20:29] overwhelming sense of pride in their [20:31] Israeli identity. 68% of respondents [20:34] expressed pride in being Israeli with [20:36] 46% calling Israel a very good place to [20:39] live and 36% labeling it good. So [20:42] between those two numbers, you're well [20:44] you're well over 80% who think that [20:46] Israel is a good place, culminating in a [20:48] 79% overall satisfaction rate with life [20:53] in Israel. Uh, I mean that [20:57] look at what we're describing here. Put [20:59] the whole thing together. [21:01] Now, in that same poll, 43% of the young [21:04] voters said they that they kiss the muza [21:07] on the on the side of the door when they [21:08] walk into a room, right? Which is higher [21:12] than older voters who were at like a 30% [21:14] or something. [21:16] 80% of the young say they believe in [21:18] God, [21:20] which is higher than their parents. 56% [21:22] of the young believe in the coming of [21:23] the Messiah [21:25] higher than their parents. [21:29] And when they asked them about Shabbat [21:31] observance, 53% of Israelis 18 to 29, [21:36] 53% of Israelis 18 to 29 said they keep [21:38] Shabbat according to Jewish law. Among [21:41] people in their 40s and older, it's [21:43] below 20%. [21:45] Think about that delta. [21:48] The young generation in Israel is more [21:50] traditional than their parents and this [21:51] is a free country and no one's forcing [21:53] them to do anything. There's no [21:54] coercion. Now, there's one more piece [21:56] and this is the one where October 7th [21:58] actually fits in, [22:00] but uh not in the way that you might [22:03] think it does. [22:06] Okay, let me pull this off here. So, the [22:09] way um so think about who these [22:11] first-time voters are. If you're 18 to [22:14] 22 in 2026, that means you were born [22:17] somewhere between 2004 and 2008. [22:21] Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip and [22:25] Kamas then took it over a year later, [22:27] but they pulled out of the Gaza Strip in [22:28] 2005. [22:31] Well, Kamas took over in 2007, right? [22:33] Well, they won the election in 2006 and [22:35] they fully took over in 2007. So 2005 to [22:38] 2007 is the pull out from Gaza and the [22:40] Hamas takeover. So, every single one of [22:43] these young voters was born around the [22:46] time of that transition, the [22:48] disengagement and the kamas takeover. [22:50] That's the window they were born in. Not [22:53] one of them remembers a world where Gaza [22:58] was not run by kamas. That's my point. [23:01] So, they all grew up, all of these [23:02] first-time voters that they're polling [23:04] here, 18 to 22, [23:06] everyone that Medi Hassan is talking [23:08] about, grew up with rocket sirens, with [23:12] operations every couple of years, little [23:14] mini wars, [23:16] uh, running to shelters as something [23:18] that happens in the towns around the [23:20] Gaza Strip and sometimes beyond. [23:23] their parents and grandparents. [23:26] That's the Oslo generation. They [23:29] remember the handshake on the White [23:30] House lawn and the and they and they and [23:33] they lived through and maybe drank the [23:35] Kool-Aid during that period of hope for [23:37] peace. [23:40] So whether you thought Oslo was a good [23:42] idea or not, that earlier generation [23:45] still has that in kind of their [23:47] somewhere in their in their in their [23:49] mind. They a lot of them at least at [23:51] some point thought that way. [23:54] These kids never thought that way, [23:57] okay? They [23:59] they lived in a world where these crazy [24:03] decisions made by an earlier generation [24:05] were just a disaster that had already [24:08] failed by the time they they become [24:11] politically uh conscious. [24:17] And then, and this is the other thing [24:18] Americans need to understand, at 18 [24:21] years old, these young Israelis don't go [24:24] off to a campus for four years to sit in [24:26] seminars about oppressor and oppressed [24:28] and get indoctrinated to become [24:30] left-wing, which is what happens on [24:31] American campuses. What happens in [24:33] European campuses? That's what the [24:35] campus is. So, high school's over and [24:37] then you go get indoctrinated to become [24:38] leftwing [24:40] if you weren't indoctrinated already in [24:42] high school. But that's not what these [24:43] kids do. They go into the army. They [24:47] spend some time doing religious studies [24:50] often before they go into the army. [24:54] So their politics aren't formed by [24:56] academic theoreticians. [24:59] They're formed by reality, by fighting [25:01] in an army. And October 7th didn't [25:04] change their minds. As I showed you at [25:06] the beginning of this video, it [25:07] confirmed what they already knew. [25:10] The people who had to change their minds [25:12] were the adults. The older generation [25:14] had to change their minds. [25:19] And look at what October 7th actually [25:21] did to them. The same Miv poll [25:24] um asked them 57% of these 18 to 22 year [25:28] olds said that their faith has grown [25:30] stronger. As I just read to you, that [25:32] they feel more connected to Jewish [25:34] tradition. [25:35] the worst massacre of Jews since the [25:37] Holocaust, October 7th, and it followed [25:41] by years of war, burying their friends, [25:45] and the response of this young [25:46] generation isn't despair. It isn't that [25:49] they want to run away. It isn't [25:50] cynicism. It's faith and tradition. Let [25:54] me show you one more one more uh number [25:57] from that poll, and you'll see what I [25:58] mean. Okay, so in that in that same [26:01] poll, look what it says here. [26:04] Um, [26:08] in response to potential future reserve [26:10] duty, a significant majority, 64% of [26:13] those pled stated that they would report [26:16] without hesitation. Another 33% say they [26:19] would do so out of necessity, while only [26:21] 3% expressed uncertainty or a refusal to [26:24] serve. Again, there's an overwhelming [26:26] desire to serve. There's a pride what I [26:30] read to you before their pride in [26:32] Israeli identity. This is all post [26:34] October 7th. These these numbers I'm [26:36] sharing with you now. This is post [26:38] October 7th. This is a young proud uh [26:42] population. [26:45] So what do we take from Medi's [26:46] observation? I think a lot of people are [26:48] reading it as something ominous like [26:51] young Israelis are radicalizing. They're [26:53] lashing out. They want revenge. I would [26:56] suggest looking at it the other way [26:57] around. Across the Western world, you [27:00] have a young generation that's marrying [27:02] less, having fewer children, drifting [27:05] from faith, and not sure its own [27:07] civilization deserves to continue, and [27:09] certainly not willing to fight for it. [27:12] And in Israel, you have a young [27:13] generation that's getting married, [27:15] having children, drawing closer to God, [27:18] and willing to defend its country. Okay, [27:21] that's the way it works. [27:25] Politics follows life. [27:27] You know, the prophet Jeremiah speaking [27:30] to a people in exile says to them, [27:32] "There is hope for your future, says the [27:35] Lord, and your children shall return to [27:38] their border." [27:40] Shàu, "Your children shall return to [27:43] their border." That's what you're [27:44] looking at in this poll. This isn't [27:46] backlash to October 7th. It's a [27:48] generation that has returned to its [27:51] identity, to its border, and it's [27:53] choosing life, and it's choosing to [27:55] build life there in their land. That's [27:58] what I wanted to share with you today. [28:00] Thanks for watching. Thanks for liking [28:02] and sharing, and make sure you're [28:03] subscribed so you don't miss the next [28:05] video. And uh and God bless.
