Transcript [00:00] The left is dead. In Israel, that is. In [00:04] Israel, the left after October 7th has [00:08] pretty much disappeared. [00:09] Uh it is September 7th today. Uh we're [00:12] about a month away from the 3-year [00:13] anniversary of this terrible day that [00:16] happened in southern Israel on October [00:18] 7th. And [00:21] everything, the world that has changed [00:23] since then, because I don't know if you [00:24] guys realize that October 7th changed [00:26] the whole planet. Everything has changed [00:29] since October 7th. [00:31] And one thing, one of the biggest things [00:33] that really has changed is the left in [00:35] Israel. A lot of people don't understand [00:37] this, but [00:39] the left in Israel [00:40] Israel had a tendency to be a more [00:44] left-leaning country for many, many, [00:46] many years. [00:47] Um and I would say that in Israel, [00:49] traditional leftism doesn't play out the [00:52] way that it does in the west, uh in the [00:54] way that it does in Europe or in [00:55] America. [00:57] Uh these really [ __ ] up identity [00:59] politics, this DEI situation, like it [01:03] never really played out in that way in [01:05] Israel, but it would manifest itself in [01:08] uh trying at least to copy the identity [01:11] politics, the gender politics, the race [01:13] politics, the um [01:16] uh the I don't even know how to explain [01:18] it, like the kind of the pro-Palestine [01:19] politics [01:21] uh that would [01:22] play out in the west. They would try to [01:25] sometimes emulate that here in Israel [01:27] with little to no success. But before [01:30] October 7th, the idea was definitely [01:32] catching on in a lot of mainstream [01:34] circles. And what had happened was that [01:36] massacre [01:38] that took place at the hands of [01:39] Palestinians in the south of Israel kind [01:42] of woke up a lot of people. It woke up a [01:44] lot of people in Israel who were already [01:46] predisposed to the leaning a little bit [01:48] more left, to being a little bit more [01:50] understanding of the leftist politics. [01:53] And today, the average Israeli voter [01:55] that you would ask is going to tell you [01:57] I'm voting for Bibi. [01:59] Which is surprising, right? Like a lot [02:01] of people don't think that the country [02:03] would still be voting for Bibi Netanyahu [02:05] or his block, his political block, [02:07] because they're considered even far [02:09] right. But a lot of [02:11] a lot of people don't understand that [02:13] Bibi's politics and his [02:15] camp's politics [02:17] for Israel is really not even that far [02:19] right. In a lot of ways, it's more [02:21] center and sometimes even left-leaning. [02:24] Which I know sounds crazy, but there are [02:26] things that Bibi has done [02:28] that you would never consider or concede [02:32] to be leftist or left or uh sorry, or [02:35] right or right-leaning or conservative. [02:38] At least not in the western spectrum of [02:40] things. [02:41] But that that's the whole conversation [02:43] too, is the Israeli binary political [02:46] spectrum of right and left, they don't [02:48] have a lot of overlap that they do in [02:49] places in the west. Like for example, [02:52] you can have somebody who is completely [02:54] leftist here, right? Who engages in [02:56] every single religious ceremony [02:59] throughout the year with their family. [03:01] Because here it's more culture than it [03:02] is religion. [03:04] And they will be a far leftist, per se, [03:07] that'll go fight in a combat unit in the [03:09] army. [03:10] Which is something you'll never have in [03:12] a place like the United [03:14] or in places like Europe, where you have [03:15] like a patriotic leftist fighting for [03:19] the country, waving the flag. Here, a [03:21] lot of times, I don't want to claim all [03:24] of them were leftist, but a lot of the [03:26] protests that were taking place against [03:28] Bibi and his government before October [03:30] 7th [03:31] were could be classified as more [03:33] left-leaning. And then even during [03:35] October 7th and [03:37] the hostage like return the hostage [03:38] protests that end up a lot of times [03:40] devolving into anti-government protests, [03:43] they definitely had more of a [03:45] left-leaning vibe or a left-leaning [03:48] I I don't want to call them all [03:49] left-leaning because they weren't all [03:51] like there were many people there who [03:52] were not left-leaning, but the people [03:55] there was more of a left-leaning [03:56] tendency for the people in the crowd, I [03:58] would say, is a fair assessment. [04:01] Those same people would be people who [04:03] would be ultra-patriotic, waving the [04:05] Israeli flag, and serving in the army a [04:09] lot of times. Those people would be [04:10] reservists or serving in intelligent [04:12] units or combat units, which is [04:14] something that is extremely rare that [04:16] you wouldn't be able to find in places [04:18] in the West. And what I feel like [04:20] happened is the paradigm shift that [04:21] happened since October 7th is, and this [04:23] is the mistake, I think this is a really [04:26] was a really big mistake for the [04:27] Palestinians to have done this. They [04:29] shifted a lot of the national block of [04:32] the country [04:33] towards a perspective of [04:36] nationalism, [04:37] conservatism, elements of conservatism, [04:39] and and a large element of an [04:41] incapability of coexistence. If the [04:44] average Israeli before October 7th had a [04:47] semblance of an idea or a desire to [04:50] coexist with their Arab neighbors, [04:52] they're now extremely, [04:54] extremely, [04:56] extremely skeptical of that. Extremely [04:59] skeptical of that. And that does take [05:01] away or breaks away from this idea of [05:04] Israeli leftism cuz for a long time part [05:07] of Israeli leftism was classified with [05:10] peace under any circumstance, [05:13] a mass desire for peace, giving up land, [05:15] land swaps for peace. Um, you know, [05:18] like, the Gaza disengagement or um [05:21] negotiating over the Golan Heights, [05:23] negotiating over the West Bank sovereign [05:25] territory towards a state of Palestine. [05:28] I think the average Israeli now, like, [05:31] even the most far left Israeli now, [05:34] well, actually, no. Most far left [05:35] Israelis would still parrot those kinds [05:37] of things, but even the most left [05:40] Israelis or many Israelis on the left [05:42] today would tell you, [05:43] "No, no, no, no, no. I I not two-state [05:46] solution. I am not pro Palestine. Well, [05:49] I might hate BB Netanyahu, I may hate [05:51] with the current government, I'm [05:52] definitely not two state solution. I [05:55] don't believe Palestinians can have a [05:56] government and I think that was a [05:57] serious misstep on the behest of the [05:59] Palestinians. They ended up massacring [06:01] the people who were advocating for them [06:03] the most in Gaza or in the border of [06:05] Gaza and those southern communities. [06:08] Many people don't know that a lot of the [06:09] people who were killed on October 7th [06:11] were lefties. Were people who believed [06:14] in peace and coexistence. I can't [06:15] remember the exact name of the person, [06:17] but when I was touring those kibbutzim [06:19] down south, there was a woman [06:22] who had a seed company who they tested [06:24] growing all kinds of genetically [06:27] modified seeds in the south of Israel [06:29] that would make it better for planting [06:31] in the Negev desert and in this area and [06:33] then they would ship those seeds out to [06:35] Gaza for free so that Gazan farmers can [06:37] have more survivable seeds and plants to [06:41] grow their crops and then they would [06:43] ship those out to Africa and all over [06:44] the world, but they work directly with [06:46] Gazan farmers to try to get those seeds [06:48] out there so that they would have a [06:50] better source of food and [06:51] people like her were massacred on [06:54] October 7th by Gazans and mind you, many [06:57] times by Gazans who were worked in those [06:59] kibbutzim, who maybe even worked with [07:01] that farmer, who took note of their [07:03] addresses and how many people were in [07:05] each house and made a manifest so they [07:07] could specifically come kill them. Not [07:10] Not because it was like a an accident [07:13] where they were coming in and were just [07:14] killing them and specifically, they knew [07:16] what they were doing. They knew how they [07:18] were helping Gazans and they still added [07:21] them to the list of people to be killed [07:23] on the 7th of October. [07:26] That kind of behavior knocks back the [07:28] pegs of what's possible with peace. I [07:31] think I seriously, when I look into it, [07:33] I really think it was a massive misstep [07:36] by the Palestinians to further alienate [07:38] people who are already interested in [07:39] peace with them from their cause. But [07:42] that is kind of the world of the [07:44] Palestinianism. That's kind of the whole [07:46] pro-Palestine movement in a nutshell. [07:48] It's just doing everything in its power [07:50] to in [07:51] inhibit a reality of peace, inhibit a [07:53] reality of [07:55] a coexistence between Jews and [07:57] Palestinians. A big part of it is just [08:00] riding on the fact that uh the more [08:02] hatred is spread between the two of us, [08:03] the better for each movement. And I I [08:06] really believe that that's what was [08:07] accomplished on October 7th on the So, I [08:10] I really think it was a massive misstep, [08:11] like a very, very, very big mistake on [08:14] the on the behalf of the Palestinians. [08:16] And this, [08:17] like I said already, went on to further [08:19] alienate the left in Israel to the point [08:21] now where we're coming up on these [08:23] elections. Even the people who were the [08:24] most anti-BB, I think a lot of people [08:27] have been like have changed their tune [08:28] and are more receptive receptive or open [08:31] to BB or BB's side, which would make [08:34] them [08:35] not the left. But, also, you know, [08:37] another thing in in Israel that never [08:39] works like a classic left, [08:41] this idea of leftist gender and [08:44] um what is it? Like a [08:47] like gender and race and identity [08:49] politics never really caught on in [08:51] Israel. Like the whole trans, I'm brown, [08:54] you're black, I'm white movement thing [08:56] never really like the whole DI world [08:58] never caught on here. I think Israelis [09:00] are just too like [09:02] uh dark-minded. Like they're very like [09:06] they like very like dark humor and [09:08] very crass people where that kind of [09:10] like PC culture never really properly [09:12] caught on. Now, and it and again, after [09:14] October 7th, I think it's even more way [09:17] out of the realm of possibility where [09:19] just classic classic leftism will never [09:21] have a stronghold here, at least not for [09:23] the near future. We are Jews and we have [09:25] a tendency to forget the terrible [ __ ] [09:27] that happens to us pretty quickly. And [09:29] so, [09:30] you may see a reality in like 10 years [09:32] again where we go back to our [ __ ] [09:33] antics like we always do. But, I do [09:35] think that classical leftism is at least [09:39] dead in Israel for the near future. But [09:44] that being said, okay, all of that being [09:45] said there is a reality where [09:50] what goes on with current governance and [09:51] politics keeps going [09:55] as far as it does [09:57] into such a deep pit of despair [10:00] where people actually have no other way [10:03] to cope but to [10:04] come back to the left or go to the left. [10:07] Because here's the way that I see it. [10:08] Right now with the current [10:10] administration that we have in [10:11] government [10:12] there is no hope for peace. [10:14] There there are strong borders and a [10:16] strong army and you feel protected, but [10:19] there isn't a hope for peace which I [10:20] think at least at the very least needs [10:23] to be somewhat of the core thing that [10:25] brings Israelis together. And the left [10:28] side of the aisle in Israel promises [10:30] peace, but under any circumstance. I [10:33] think where what many Israelis are kind [10:34] of caught in between is like the the the [10:36] down for peace, but not at any [10:38] circumstance. Not for giving up their [10:40] security. Not for giving up their rights [10:44] to live the way that they want to live. [10:46] And I think that's the part that many [10:47] Israelis are just like unwilling to [10:48] compromise on which is fair. [10:51] But I do think that over time if things [10:54] don't get better on let's say the right [10:56] side of the aisle, if more creative [10:58] solutions aren't found for this conflict [11:00] and at least they're not heading towards [11:02] a position of solving it we may actually [11:05] see a migration of many Israelis and [11:07] Jews in general back towards the left [11:11] side of the aisle. [11:13] I do think that either way though that [11:15] that's destined to fail. I think that [11:16] being a lefty in the Middle East in any [11:18] context, whether be in Israel or the UAE [11:21] or Bahrain or or Lebanon, it's just [11:24] it's just not a strategy that can work. [11:26] This region is plagued and [11:31] indigenously [11:33] God-fearing. If [11:35] conservative, indigenously [11:39] close-minded in a lot of ways. [11:41] Not that the people aren't great here, [11:43] but they're not the most open-minded and [11:45] flexible people in the universe, [11:47] especially in considering to European or [11:48] Western standards. [11:50] And so, [11:52] I think that being a leftist here is [11:54] kind of doomed to fail either way. [11:56] I'm I'm I'm I'm open to be proven wrong [11:58] in that, but I just don't think it's [12:00] something that has a longevity to [12:01] survive in this region, if you catch [12:03] what I'm saying. [12:05] So, [12:06] all of that being said in summary, [12:08] leftism since October 7th has kind of [12:10] been crushed and dead in Israel. We're [12:12] coming up on the 3-year anniversary of [12:14] October 7th, 3 years after, and I don't [12:16] see that that leftism has ever [12:20] resurged in any meaningful way. [12:23] You see these grifters who are on the [12:24] left sort of pro-Palestine camp in [12:25] Israel, [12:27] who will try to demonize Israel and [12:28] Israeli people and the Jewish people in [12:30] any way possible, but it hasn't caught [12:32] on the mainstream. It's not like a [12:34] movement that really people believe in. [12:36] And so, [12:37] where we're left is [12:39] where we're left is where we're left is [12:41] a situation where the country is a [12:42] majority right-leaning at the moment. [12:45] And I think that [12:46] it won't be heading back anywhere left [12:49] or semblance of left anywhere in the [12:51] near future. Unless something really [12:53] major or terrible happens on the right [12:55] side of the aisle, which I'm open, it [12:57] can happen. Like, it's not not possible. [12:59] It is possible. [13:01] I just don't see it heading back there [13:02] anytime soon. But, what do you guys [13:03] think? Is my assessment totally wrong? [13:05] Let me know down below.
