This episode puts Israel’s election night under the microscope while the votes were still being counted, and the panel of Judah Friedman, Dr. Brian of London, Guy Goldstein, and Golan Ramraz has little patience for the experts who got it wrong. Judah starts with a blunt warning that the prediction markets are run by people who cannot read a parliamentary system, and Brian, Guy, and Golan back him up on why Israel’s 120-seat, no-constituency structure defeats outside bettors. The exit polls put Netanyahu back on top, turnout hit its highest point since 1999, and the Arab parties surged, which sets up a coalition puzzle that may end in yet another election. That leads straight into Section 7A, the Kahane precedent, and the question Israel has never answered about citizens who openly want the Jewish state gone. Underneath it all sits one dividing line, Rak Bibi or Rak Lo Bibi, and the hosts show how every policy fight, judicial reform included, collapses into that single question. Guy explains why the change bloc’s own promises make a majority mathematically impossible, Golan lays out how social media turns hatred of a man or a country into a social currency, and Judah closes by calling the unity and civility pitch the biggest lie in politics.
This episode puts Israel’s election night under the microscope while the votes were still being counted, and the panel of Judah Friedman, Dr. Brian of London, Guy Goldstein, and Golan Ramraz has little patience for the experts who got it wrong. Judah starts with a blunt warning that the prediction markets are run by people who cannot read a parliamentary system, and Brian, Guy, and Golan back him up on why Israel’s 120-seat, no-constituency structure defeats outside bettors. The exit polls put Netanyahu back on top, turnout hit its highest point since 1999, and the Arab parties surged, which sets up a coalition puzzle that may end in yet another election. That leads straight into Section 7A, the Kahane precedent, and the question Israel has never answered about citizens who openly want the Jewish state gone. Underneath it all sits one dividing line, Rak Bibi or Rak Lo Bibi, and the hosts show how every policy fight, judicial reform included, collapses into that single question. Guy explains why the change bloc’s own promises make a majority mathematically impossible, Golan lays out how social media turns hatred of a man or a country into a social currency, and Judah closes by calling the unity and civility pitch the biggest lie in politics.