Is Israel’s Global Standing on The (Israeli) Ballot? - with Amit Segal and Nadav Eyal
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Why is Netanyahu’s UN visit seen as a domestic political strategy?
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You are listening to an art media podcast. Every appearance or every speech of Prime Minister Netanyahu in the United Nations is first and foremost a musical which is played on Broadway but the audience is right.
Brady. He grew up in America. He studied in America. He speaks with an American accent. But the America that he understands to a large extent is not the current America. If you compare it to back to 2018, Israel had a negative swing of over seventy percent against it. And of course, it's very much related to your question to Netanyahu.
It's seven AM on Wednesday, September twenty-third here in New York City. It's two PM on Wednesday, September twenty third in Israel. By the time most of you will be listening to this episode, when it drops on Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu will be in New York to address the United Nations General Assembly. And his visit is, in some ways, a perfect snapshot of the question we want to explore today. This will be one of Netanyahu's shortest trips to the United States as Prime Minister. He is expected to arrive in the morning, address the UN in the afternoon, and leave shortly afterward, without spending a single night in the United States. There's no meeting scheduled with President Trump, no major meetings with golf leaders have been announced.
The visit is essentially the speech, and the atmosphere surrounding that speech is quite extraordinary. New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani campaigned on a pledge, part of his agenda, to arrest Netanyahu when he arrives in New York City based on the International Criminal Court Warrant against him. Mamdani has since acknowledged that the mayor of New York City does not have the legal authority to enforce that warrant, but he continues to say that Netanyahu is not welcome in New York. Netanyahu, for his part, has said that he intends to respond to Mamdani from the UN podium. All this is happening against a much bigger backdrop, a significant deterioration in attitudes toward Israel in the United States, particularly among younger Americans.
According to recent surveys, 85% of young Democrats and 64% of young Republicans hold an unfavorable view of Israel. Increasingly serious arguments that this could eventually move beyond public opinion and diplomatic isolation into economic consequences. A case study published last month by FDD, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, some of whose experts we often have on Calm We Back, lays out a scenario in which sanctions mechanisms used against Iran could eventually be used to target Israeli officials, Israeli companies. companies and Israeli banks. For Jews in the diaspora, particularly here in America, Israel's standing in the world feels very immediate. It intersects with our politics, our institutions, our educational institutions, schools, colleges, with antisemitism and sometimes our own sense of security.
But here is the tension. Is this how Israelis see it? And will it be on the ballot in the upcoming elections in 34 days? As Israel's global standing is becoming a more urgent subject of discussion, Netanyahu's political position at home has improved. He is still short of a governing majority in the polling, but the movement in the polls over the past two weeks has brought Netanyahu considerably closer to at least denying his opponents. Opponents, the ability to form a government. The opposition remains divided, and new parties on the right have complicated the electoral map. What would another Netanyahu government mean for Israel's standing in the world? Are Israelis and diaspora Jews now looking at the same problem through fundamentally different lenses?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is Netanyahu’s UN visit seen as a domestic political strategy?
0:00–7:04
2
How has Israel’s public image in the United States changed since 2018?
7:04–12:38
3
What impact could U.S. sanctions against Israel have on the upcoming election?
12:38–18:22
4
Why do Israeli voters care less about UN speeches after October 7?
18:22–23:30
5
How are the Arab parties reshaping the Israeli electoral map?
23:30–29:09
6
What are the strategic options for Netanyahu’s coalition after the vote?
29:09–35:36
7
How might the election outcome trigger another round of voting in 2027?
35:36–40:08
8
What predictions do the analysts make about Israel’s political future?
40:08–46:01
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