Welcome back to the Dershow. By the time you see this show, I will be in Israel, hopefully

meeting with people in the new government and assessing the political situation in Israel.

But even before I do a show from Israel directly, I wanted to comment on the last election

and the implications of the last election for the United States. Israel and the United States

have a tremendous amount in common. Voters vote about the same way the country is deeply

divided between right and left. It has moved more to the right than it had previously done

and the most recent election in Israel resulted in a government that will have in it some pretty

extreme right wingers, although not to know who himself is a centrist, center right. Not to know

isn't that different than Joe Biden or really from a political point of view that different from

Donald Trump. They're very different in terms of personality, very different in terms of

divisiveness, although not to know who can be very divisive too. I mean, people treat not to know

in Israel the way many Americans treat Trump some regard him as the king and they love him and

some regard him as the devil and they hate him. That would be true as well as of voters of the

United States. But there's been a movement to the right in Israel and a lot of my friends who

are liberal, many of them, not all of whom are Jewish, most of whom are supporters of Israel,

have expressed concern. Why should Israel be moving to the right? Well, there are a lot of good

reasons for it and I understand it completely. Let's start with the most obvious reason.

As a result of work done by people like me and people like Elie Wiesel and Erwin Kotler and

others who worked on the Soviet dissident and Jewry movement close to a million, a million

former citizens and their children of the Soviet Union moved to Israel and became Israeli citizens.

Now these are people who have been oppressed for years and years by communism, by socialism,

by the left. It denied them the right to practice their religion, the right to earn a living,

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