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People are committed to Israel, but are troubled with many of the things that Israel is doing.

And they're trying to maintain a relationship being committed and troubled at the same time.

But for many of them, they've lived

for 15 years with a government that doesn't reflect their liberal values. When you add a

Ben-Gvier and a Smotritch to the equation, they're asking themselves, what future does my

relationship with Israel have? Doesn't mean that they're voting for Mamdani as an expression

of an anti-Israel. They're just tired. They don't want to have an Israel-centric relationship.

And they'll therefore vote for somebody because he reflects other liberal values.

New York is the capital city, not just of American jury, but of the

diaspora. To have a representative of the camp that turned Jewish students on campus into pariahs,

as the mayor of New York is a violation. And the fact that so many Jews turned their backs on the rest of the Jewish community,

never mind Israel. They turned their backs on American jury. They turned their backs on their fellow New York Jews.

That's what's eating at me.

I don't know. me this is part two of our conversation with daniel hartman and yossi kline halevi about

zorn momdani and jewish voters in new New York City who voted for him and how that is

perceived over here in the U.S., in the diaspora, and from Israel.

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