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 every year in my life. |
| 0:05.2 | I've traveled there a dozen times. |
| 0:06.7 | I studied abroad there. |
| 0:08.4 | I have a lot of personal experience with it. |
| 0:11.9 | There was a thing that was said when I was younger, it was, give us your money and shut up. |
| 0:15.7 | And that was the argument that we got a lot from certain Israeli politicians more to the American Jewish community |
| 0:21.8 | than to the U.S. government, ironically, or interestingly. I think that the prime minister understands |
| 0:26.6 | he's vulnerable. And this is why he reacted harshly. You know, Joe Biden, interestingly, |
| 0:32.4 | has the kind of credibility and presence that Israelis like. |
| 0:38.5 | He's been around for decades. |
| 0:40.9 | He uses this story ad nauseum, but how he met Golda Meir in 1973 just after a year |
| 0:47.7 | being in the Senate. |
| 0:49.0 | And he loves Israel. |
| 0:50.3 | And he goes through this a lot. |
| 0:52.4 | But he has deep credibility in American Jewish community |
| 0:55.4 | on the establishment side as well as in Israel. |
| 0:59.0 | And so when he speaks and he says, no, no, man, |
| 1:01.9 | no, he's not invited to the White House |
| 1:03.4 | and this has gone too far. |
| 1:05.3 | It's like a thunder clap. |
| 1:06.9 | And it was all they talked about in Israel. |
| 1:10.1 | And because Joe Biden is not perceived as hostile to Israel. |
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