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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the protests that are taking place and have been taking place over quite a long period of time in Israel, in Tel Aviv. |
0:14.0 | Protests against the Netanyahu government, protests which are growing. |
0:20.8 | I believe the last protest, the reports |
0:23.0 | are 100,000 people in Tel Aviv came out to protest Netanyahu, the Netanyahu government, |
0:31.0 | to protest the situation with hostages, to call for negotiations to get those hostages released. |
0:40.1 | Protests, I imagine protests as well about the economy in Israel, which is not doing well. |
0:48.0 | It has been a type of war economy over the past year. |
0:53.0 | It's been feeling the effects of the war over the past year. |
0:58.7 | So what are your thoughts as to what is happening in Israel with these protests? |
1:04.0 | Well, I think the first thing to say is that these protests are very large and will probably get bigger. |
1:10.7 | But I don't think they actually threaten Netanyahu's political positions at the moment, |
1:15.7 | which looks actually stronger, in my opinion, than it has been, |
1:20.2 | at any point since the events of last October. |
1:24.3 | We've discussed this many times. |
1:25.8 | The kind of people who are protesting are the people who didn't like Netanyahu anyway, |
1:31.4 | who in Israeli political terms are on the left liberal, secular side of Israeli politics. |
1:40.8 | They are very upset by what has been happening. |
1:45.2 | And of course, what's happened with the Gaza War |
1:47.8 | has crystallized many of their concerns |
1:52.0 | because, of course, as you rightly say, |
1:54.0 | the economy is in decline and rapid decline. |
1:58.8 | I think this is something which discussion about the situation in Israel |
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