Episode 265 Promo - J Street View (w/ Joel Rubin)
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Briahna is joined by Joel Rubin, Bernie's 2020 director of Jewish outreach and founding political director of J Street, to talk about Netanyahu's power grab in Israel, the historic street protests there against the far right, whether a two state solution is still viable, and how the left can figure out how to talk about Israel and Palestinian rights. No gotchas here.
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| 0:00.0 | When I grew up watching this stuff as a kid and I've lived in Israel for over a year in my life, I've traveled there a dozen times. |
| 0:07.0 | I studied abroad there. I have a lot of personal experience with it. There was a thing that was said when I was younger. |
| 0:14.0 | It was, give us your money and shut up. And that was the argument that we got a lot from certain Israeli politicians, more to the American Jewish community than to the US government ironically or interestingly. |
| 0:25.0 | I think that the Prime Minister understands he's vulnerable and this is why he reacted harshly. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, Joe Biden interestingly has the kind of credibility and presence that Israelis like. He's been around for decades. He used this story ad nauseam but how he met Goldemeyer in 1973 just after a year being in the Senate. |
| 0:49.0 | And he loves Israel and you know, he goes through this a lot, but he has deep credibility in the American Jewish community on the establishment side as well as in Israel. |
| 0:59.0 | And so when he speaks and he says, no, no, man, no, he's not invited to the White House and this has gone too far. It's like a thunder clap and it was all they talked about in Israel. |
| 1:10.0 | And because Joe Biden is not perceived as hostile to Israel. And that is a statement that really landed right between the eyes and Prime Minister Niahu has to understand that he can try to play a little politics on this, but it's not really going to work to his advantage if he goes after Joe Biden. |
| 1:29.0 | So you mentioned, you know, Niahu is vulnerable. One obviously facing the backlash for firing the defense ministers, you know, setting off this latest round of protests. People concerned about the court reform. |
| 1:41.0 | Also his own legal trouble, which we touched on, but haven't really gotten into. Can you speak to that a little bit more what's going on there? Is it going to have more solidarity of interest with Donald Trump as they both face down potential frog marches and finger printing and mug shots and all the other things that people are salad. |
| 1:58.0 | Over on MSNBC. What is likely to happen there and what role do you think his legal troubles are playing in the posture of all of this judicial reform? |
| 2:09.0 | Miss you got miss you guys. |
| 2:11.0 | You were my. |
| 2:12.0 | I gotta say you were. |
| 2:14.0 | I'm looking for another word because I know I have the really I have a habit. I don't know if it's from your I don't know what my issue is, but I love me a good yet is turn afraid. |
| 2:25.0 | What's going on here? |
| 2:28.0 | By the way, you know, as a Jew, I gotta say we love our humor. We love to laugh. The more painful gets the more insane jokes we make, you weren't my heart. |
| 2:39.0 | Brie, you really did. I'm going to have to throw some you know, you know, hide in here. |
| 2:43.0 | Look, first of all, these girls already had a prime minister gone to jail since jail, a hood old merit went. |
| 2:49.0 | So they already beat the US to the punch on that one. It's not it's not so unprecedented to send somebody to jail. In fact, it's kind of refreshing and this. |
| 2:58.0 | I'm a prime minister is out banging away and let's see what he's doing is corrupt. So, you know, |
| 3:04.0 | look, I mean, that's a guy who he was a guy that he's about four counts for corruption, misuse of public funds, a variety of things that. |
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