Naftali Bennett, (former) Prime Minister

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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*** Share on X: https://tinyurl.com/24rsb4wv *** Today we sit down with one of the most interesting figures in Israeli public life, former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who served as Israel’s 13th Prime Minister (2021-22), and previously, in a Netanyahu-led government as Defense Minister (2019-20), and earlier on as Economy Minister. When he himself was prime minister, Naftali Bennett's government was comprised of 8 political parties from across the ideological spectrum - from his own Yamina Party and the New Hope party on the Right, through Yair Lapid’s party in the center, to the Labor and Meretz parties on the Left. And then – for the first time in an Israeli Government – there was the Arab Muslim party, Ra’am. In his business career, Prime Minister Bennett was a successful start-up entrepreneur. And he served in Israel’s elite Sayaret Mechtel special forces. In this long-form interview, we try to better understand Naftali Bennett's worldview on a range of issues in Israel’s post-10/07 reality – its strategic situation as it faces multiple war fronts or possible war fronts, and we wanted to better understand his vision for addressing the growing internal Israeli tensions – within the Israeli public..

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0:00.0	The Iranian nation is a
0:02.0	Vulnerable.
0:04.0	You have a leadership that is despised by the people of Iran.
0:08.0	The Iranian nation is a good nation, an ancient nation,
0:12.0	which by the way had very positive ties with the Jews.
0:15.6	And so the strategy I believe we need to adopt is to weaken the epicenter of all the problems, which is the Iranian regime, and ultimately
0:26.9	Papalit. It's 11. 11.5. It's 11.5.m. on Thursday, July 11th here in New York City. It's 645 a.m. on Friday, July 12th in Israel as Israelis get
0:47.0	ready to start their day. Before we dive into today's conversation I just have a
0:52.3	few immediate reactions to President Biden's
0:55.2	highly anticipated press conference, which wrapped up this evening not long ago.
1:01.1	I'll leave it to others to analyze the implications of the press conference
1:04.3	for the president's re-election campaign. I mean it wasn't a debacle on the scale of his
1:09.7	debate a couple weeks ago but it wasy. So I don't think it'll fend off calls from
1:16.7	down ballot Democratic office holders and candidates, from Democratic donors and party activists to stand down from the nomination.
1:25.0	So after tonight's press conference, we are probably where we were before the press conference.
1:31.0	Not much has changed.
1:33.1	But what I want to spend a moment on, before moving on to our conversation, is looking at exactly
1:38.2	what President Biden said about Israel, which was quite odd.
1:44.3	First off, President Biden said this about Israel's wartime leadership.
1:50.0	I know Israel well, and I support Israel, but this war cabinet is one of the most conservative
1:56.8	war cabinets in the history of Israel and there's no ultimate answer than a two-state solution here.
2:05.0	Okay, well Israel's war cabinet was dissolved almost a month ago after Benny Gantz and Gotti Isenkott withdrew from the coalition government.
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