 All right, let's quickly do the Israeli elections. So Israel held elections, the fifth elections in like a year, two years, something like that, ridiculous. They keep having elections. They couldn't form a coalition. But this election looks like it's pretty definitive. It looks like Netanyahu, the longest serving prime minister in Israeli history, will be able to form a coalition. It looks like he'll actually have a fairly strong coalition of 65, I think, very committed votes to him. It's going to be the most religious government in Israeli history. It will be the most right-wing government, not in the economic sense at all, but in the nationalist, religious, anti-individual liberty sense that Israel has ever had. Indeed, it's hard to imagine a government worse than what Israel is going to get now. I have never been a fan of Bebe's. I thought he has always been a compromising, weak power lustre. He, too, he gives a great speech in English, best speeches ever. Bebe's speeches at the UN, Bebe's speeches for the Congress, Bebe's speeches on American television. He's fantastic in English. He's horrible in Hebrew. And he is, I think, generally a destructive anti-liberty, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom force in Israeli politics. The government he is about to form won't comprise of three other political parties. Two political parties that he's formed governments with before, but this time will have a disproportionate power because the majority will be so small, he'll depend on them for every vote. And they're the ultra-orthodox, ultra-orthodox religious Jews. They're the ones who wear black. They basically have a mentality of people from the 18th century. They like Bebe because they care little about Israel's security. They don't serve in the army. They care little about, I don't know, Palestinians. They care little about anything, economic liberty, anything like that. The only thing they care about is that, A, they want to make sure that young people, they're young people, they're ultra-orthodox religious young people, don't serve in the military, that everybody else is forced into a draft. They want to make sure that their kids are not, that they are allowed to go and study and pray in the Yeshiva instead. So that's priority number one. Priority number two is that the Israeli government heavily subsidize, and it has in previous Netanyahu governments, and it's going to do so even more this government, heavily subsidize men to not work. I don't know if you know how the ultra-orthodox function, ultra-orthodox function where the men don't work, the women work. The men study all day. They pray and they study. Maybe they dabble in some business, maybe they dabble in work, but most of them do not work. The women do their work. The women raise the kids. The women take care of the home. The men do God's work. They pray and they study. And what the ultra-orthodox Jewish political parties want, and they've received from BB, and they will receive it again in spades this time, is massive subsidies for these men not to work. Now, this is what's fascinating about Israel, is this is the fastest growing population in Israel. This is a population whose demographics are going to dwarf any other group in Israeli society. They have more kids than other Jews. They have more kids than Arabs. They have more kids than anybody. And yet they produce nothing. They don't work. They don't produce. They don't create. They live off of the state. They are massive beneficiaries of the welfare state. And this is a group cultivated from and cultivated by and supported by BB. It's a group that again doesn't care about Israeli security. They don't care about the army. They don't care about the Arab threat. All they care about is that they are subsidized to go and pray every day and that they don't have to work. There is no more corrupt group in Israel. I mean, I don't think the communists say any worse than these guys. Their societies are primitive, barbaric, religious fundamentalists of the worst kind. So that's one group that BB will form a government with. One of the reasons that the rest of the political spectrum in Israel so hateful of Netanyahu is because the secular political parties in Israel have tried over and over and over again over the years to form governments that did not include these religious parasites. And to do that, they have to exclude BB because BB won't join a government unless the religious parasites are part of it. So it's unbelievable. And look, it's not insignificant because the amount of money, the amount of resources, the amount of time, the amount of effort that goes into appeasing these ultra religious groups. Now, let's add to the third thing. They want all the stores to be shut down on Saturday. They want buses to stop running on Saturday. These are communities that if you drive nearby their streets, they will stone you. They will throw stones at your car. They want to control much of civil marriage laws in Israel. They are massive violators of individual rights, massive imposes. I mean, Israel is closer to being theocratic than at every point in time in the past because BB won. Now, so that's the two ultra religious, ultra orthodox political party. The other political party, the third political party that won an amazing anywhere between 13 to 15 mandates is a political party called religious Zionism. This is a political party that's composed of a number of different smaller political parties all on the religious right, not ultra orthodox. These are more like orthodox Jews, Yarmica wearing, still religious, you know, more like in terms of their religiosity, more like Ben Shapiro. But these are not all of them, but there's elements within this political party. The elements within the political party that are explicit racists, haters of Arabs, you know, and, you know, they even more than the ultra orthodox. The ultra orthodox community, the ultra orthodox political parties, all they really care about is the ultra orthodox political parties in the ultra orthodox community. It's all they care about. They don't care about Israel. They have no commitment to Israel. They don't. They have no interest in Israel. The religious Zionism party, these orthodox Jews, they care about Israel. They are big Zionists. They want they want a one state solution. They want to get rid of the Palestinians. They want to kick them out of Israel. But not only that, they want to reform secular Jews. They want to impose their religiosity on secular Jews. They want to make Israel a religious state because they care about Israel. They don't just care about their own small community. They want to grow the community of religious fanatics. This is with 14 mandates. You know, while there are elements there that have there's some elements within this political party that has some free market views. These are the worst kind of status fascist theocrats that one can imagine. BB has already said that some of the worst people in this political party, including one of them who is an explicit racist are going to have positions in the government. They're going to have power. This is like this election is the worst possible outcome for Israel. I can't think of a realistic outcome that's worse than this. Now, what's interesting about Israel and what's interesting, what's I think important to note is that Israel has no left. It has no left wing. So I want to go through the political parties in order of their membership in the Knesset in parliament. So the Likud is the largest. That's BB's party. The Likud is the largest with 32 mandates. This is out of 120. The Likud is a center right political party. It is it is centrist on economics and right wing on issues of nationalism. I believe there was a pretty centrist on national security issues. They're pretty bad on national security issues. Yes, it is the yes, I did that means in English. There is a future as 24 mandates. They are centrist party. They're not socialists. They're not for massive distribution of wealth on certain issues in economics. They're better than the Likud. They're not massive compromises with with with the Palestinians. You know, they want more of a settlement that Likud does so they're not right wing, but they're not left in anything. They're not left in foreign policy. They're not left in in in in national security. They're not left in economics. Yes, it is basically just center. It's a bunch of generals. So hard national security expertise, but also hard positions on national security. So that's Santa. We got center right center. Then you got religious Zionism far right. Then you got national unity. National unity again is is a political party started by people who left the Likud. This has been and again some more generals. This is basically a right of center political party. The only characteristic this right of center political party has that makes it different from the Likud is that they don't like BB. They don't like Netanyahu. So they will never form a coalition with Netanyahu. But they are in pretty much every important on every important issue. They're indistinguishable from the Likud. They're just straight right and center. So we have, you know, we have one of the four biggest political parties to a right of center. One is far right and one is center. What's the fifth largest political party? The six political parties, the one, two, three, four, five, the six political party is UTJ, another ultra-orthodox political party. Still no leftist party, not a single one. The fifth political party is UAL. Now here you could argue this is a leftist political party. It's an Arab political party. This represents the Arab vote. And so does the next size political party, which is Hadash, Ta'al, another Arab political party. I think this one's more of a Marxist political party. But anyway, they're both leftist Arab political parties. And then finally, the smallest political party of all of them. And the last political party to actually enter parliament is labor. So the Jewish left, if you will, the non-Arab left has four seats out of 120. The Arab left has, you know, Arab slash left, not all the arrows they are left, but the Islamist political party was kicked out. So what's left is kind of Arab left, Arab nationalist. They have 10 mandates. So at most, at most, the votes for a left-wing political party in Israel, about 10% of the votes, 10%. 90% of the votes are centered to center right, to right, to far right. And indeed, most of the votes here are right. The center has 24. So the left has 10%. The center has, let's say 20%. And the right has 70%. The right center right has 70%. I mean, that's stunning. That's stunning. If the right got along, if they could all come together, they would single-handedly dominate Israeli politics. And they do. The right is the only show in town in Israel. It's just which right? And in Israeli politics, there's less about ideas, less about political parties, less about political positions, and much more about personalities. And this is what Bibi has created. He's created a politics of personalities. And the only reason people vote for Likud is because they like Bibi. And the reason they vote anti-Likud is because they don't like Bibi. And that's it. Israel has become, and every general who leaves the army forms a political party and stuff. Israel has become dominated by the politics of personalities and ideas are irrelevant. And again, all the ideas basically dominate Israeli politics. A center right. There's very little to differentiate the political parties in Israel. But the left has no... The left economically, the left... And remember, Israel was a socialist country for many years. Labor used to be the biggest party in Israel by far. It formed most of the governments in almost all the governments until 1977 were formed by labor. And it was dominant until about 10, 15 years ago, at which point it basically died. The left died. I think the left died really in the Second Intifada. But economically, people talk about redistribution and socialism. But Israel is just... There's no energy for that. There's no sympathy for it. Israel is in every really topic, a center right country. But it's not even close. No other country I know in the world has such a dominant of a particular worldview. Interesting. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to www.uranbookshow.com. I go to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. 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