No Prime Minister

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Israeli politics nearing the finish line - 11 days to go till the country’s fifth election in three and a half years. But, political turmoil, it appears, is not exclusively Israeli: as many ask if Yair Lapid’s tenure as Prime Minister can be the the shortest in Israeli history, the U.K. raises the stakes - and in a breathtakingly rapid fall from power, Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after only 44 days in office. Yonit and Jonathan discuss the non-stop political news from London and Tel Aviv. A week after Kanye West was removed from social media due to antisemitic remarks he since has doubled down on, yet another high level personality banned from social media - former US President Donald Trump - writes that American Jews “have to get their act together [...] before it is too late”, and despite the fallout between them in the past, former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is there to defend him. Not one - but two Israeli politicians make our chutzpah award nominee list this week, and find out why Jonathan was compared to Mel Brooks! Follow us on Facebook + Instagram: Unholy Podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Cyber Attacks Can Be Prevented. Checkpoint, you deserve the best security.
0:09.7	This week, we're talking Donald Trump, Kanye West, Bibi Netanyahu, Yailapid, and we may even get a little
0:18.1	reference in there to Liz Truss.
0:24.3	Now, former Prime Minister, it's Unholy.
0:27.1	I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:28.5	And I'm Unholy. And I'm Unholy, Two Jews on the News from Keshet podcasts.
0:43.3	What can I tell you, Jonathan?
0:44.9	I mean, wow.
0:46.8	I was thinking that when we started this podcast,
0:50.0	you were sitting there all high and mighty
0:51.6	in your kingdom of political stability over there in London.
0:55.6	Mocking, slightly mocking in your British politeness, but under the mannerisms, you know,
1:00.2	mocking our instability in Israel.
1:02.1	But wow, have things shifted.
1:04.6	We pale in comparison to what's going on there.
1:07.0	No, you are a country of solid, reliable, dependable, steadiness compared to, I mean,
1:13.8	people are running out of comparisons. People have been sort of comparing this place to Italy.
1:17.7	I think Britain is giving Italy certainly a good run for its money. But no, Israel is comparatively
1:22.3	stable because, what, three people have been prime Minister in the last 15 years maybe?
1:28.3	Yes.
1:28.7	Or 12 years, more or less. And we've had three of those basically in three months.
1:33.7	So it's, you know, there will be a new one in three months.
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