Is Israel Alone? With Haviv Rettig Gur

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The new edition of The Economist Magazine features a photo of an Israeli flag, blowing in the wind…all alone. The cover title of this issue’s editorial is just that — “Israel Alone”. The editorial reads: “Today Israel has destroyed perhaps half of Hamas’s forces. But in important ways its mission has failed. “As estrangement from the West deepens, so deterrence may weaken. Firms could be blacklisted. Bosses could move high-tech businesses abroad or, if they are reservists, be arrested there.” But is Israel actually alone? This is what we unpack today during our regular check-in with Haviv Rettig Gur. And in the first part of the conversation, we wound up discussing why the criticism of Israel today looks almost identical to criticism of Israel in previous wars, regardless of which politicians are leading Israel.

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0:00.0	It's 730 p.m. on the
0:03.2	1.30.00. It's 7.30 p.m. on Sunday, March 24th in New York City. It's 1.30 a.m. on on Economist magazine which features a photo of a
0:22.5	trailing Israeli flag blowing in the wind all alone.
0:27.0	Indeed the cover title of this issue is just that is real alone. The editorial reads and I quote today Israel has
0:37.0	destroyed perhaps half of Hamas's forces but in important ways its mission has failed.
0:44.0	The editorial goes on,
0:46.0	As estrangement from the West deepens,
0:48.0	so deterrence may weaken.
0:50.0	Firms could be blacklisted.
0:52.0	Bosses could move high-tech businesses abroad, or if they are reservists, be arrested there."
0:59.0	Close quote.
1:00.0	So the peace says Israel is currently alone, yet in fact it just describes all the ways that Israel
1:05.1	could become isolated.
1:06.5	It doesn't actually describe concrete ways in which Israel is actually isolated today. I'm skeptical that Israel is isolated as some like
1:16.2	those of the economists believe or as some might wish Israel to be and that's even with the Vice President of the United States
1:24.4	popping off over the weekend about quote-unquote consequences for Israel,
1:28.8	which were clearly meant for a narrow domestic political audience in the US. Even with all of that I still don't see any
1:35.3	neon lit signs pointing to Israel's actual isolation. To the contrary, I actually think that most economic actors and most geopolitical actors
1:45.1	around the world are more or less sticking with Israel despite everything or at
1:49.7	least are on a path of having Israel be further integrated internationally and
1:55.7	certainly further integrated into the Middle East. If Israel however
2:00.1	appears to be losing its fight against Hamas, which was responsible for an attempt at a
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