This episode opens at (00:01) with Judah’s Google campaign and brings in Brian of London, the English-born Israeli who has lived outside Tel Aviv for seventeen years, at (01:11). The panel takes up Piers Morgan’s post about Israel’s sinking popularity at (03:01). Brian explains how little Israelis follow foreign opinion, Guy argues the polling shift measures a campaign aimed at the West itself, and Golan reminds everyone Israel was unpopular long before it had an army at (07:35). Brian traces how Soviet-era messaging flipped David and Goliath at (10:04). The conversation moves to the October 7th commemorations at (12:22), where Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries and Macron found words for the day while leaving out the Jews, and Guy ties that at (17:47) to the slow universalizing of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Brian asks at (20:41) what remorse from Gaza would look like and why rebuilding should wait for it, and the panel contrasts Germany’s shame with fighters who carried GoPros. The British consulate in Jerusalem and Britain’s letter to Israel get unpacked at (25:31), followed by Brian’s East Berlin point at (30:03) and Golan’s warning about the sovereignty precedent at (33:06). Brian explains why the BBC drove him out of the UK at (38:10). Rubio’s Athens speech gets a full read at (43:43), including the missing Jewish contribution at (46:27) and the Plutarch line at (54:02). Judah raises the Israeli election, Polymarket and why English matters for a prime minister at (55:42), and Brian closes at (1:01:40) with what it means to drive his son to IDF pre-army training.
This episode opens at (00:01) with Judah’s Google campaign and brings in Brian of London, the English-born Israeli who has lived outside Tel Aviv for seventeen years, at (01:11). The panel takes up Piers Morgan’s post about Israel’s sinking popularity at (03:01). Brian explains how little Israelis follow foreign opinion, Guy argues the polling shift measures a campaign aimed at the West itself, and Golan reminds everyone Israel was unpopular long before it had an army at (07:35). Brian traces how Soviet-era messaging flipped David and Goliath at (10:04). The conversation moves to the October 7th commemorations at (12:22), where Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries and Macron found words for the day while leaving out the Jews, and Guy ties that at (17:47) to the slow universalizing of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Brian asks at (20:41) what remorse from Gaza would look like and why rebuilding should wait for it, and the panel contrasts Germany’s shame with fighters who carried GoPros. The British consulate in Jerusalem and Britain’s letter to Israel get unpacked at (25:31), followed by Brian’s East Berlin point at (30:03) and Golan’s warning about the sovereignty precedent at (33:06). Brian explains why the BBC drove him out of the UK at (38:10). Rubio’s Athens speech gets a full read at (43:43), including the missing Jewish contribution at (46:27) and the Plutarch line at (54:02). Judah raises the Israeli election, Polymarket and why English matters for a prime minister at (55:42), and Brian closes at (1:01:40) with what it means to drive his son to IDF pre-army training.