Jon Favreau

I think he's bad for Israel.

But I do I feel like the U.S.

people talk about him sometimes as if getting rid of him might is like a quick fix and will fix everything.

And I just like it seems very unlikely to me.

As you mentioned, like the country is lurched to the right.

You've got like violent extremists, like literal terrorist sympathizers like this guy, Itamar Ben-Gavir, who are now in government.

And by the way, his support for his party in polls is going up and up and up.

not down.

Even the moderate candidates though, they're not that liberal on the Palestinian issue.

Like the head of the moderate Yashar party just visited a West Bank settlement and that was like tied to some really horrible abuses.

Yair Lapid seemed to back Mike Huckabee's bizarre claim that Israel has like a right to take over the whole Middle East because of biblical claims.

So like, again, it would be great to see that in Yahu Gan and like preferably in a prison somewhere, but isn't there a lot of evidence that

for the Palestinians and for the Palestinian issue, the even more moderate parties are not going to be all that much better?

Yeah, look, I—

I hope that's true.

I don't know, I guess I just worry that, look, when I see this effort, it's a very misguided effort by the Third Way to try to declare that Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer, is sort of out of bounds, it seems to me to be part of a broader effort

to silence critics of Israel in the US and chill debate about policy that frankly happens all the time in Israeli media.

For example, if an American politician was like, Israel is an apartheid state, that's language that is treated as outrageous or potentially anti-Semitic all the time.

But as you know, I mean, in 2021, the most prominent Israeli human rights organization in Israel,

called Israel an apartheid regime.