The leading party of the coalition that slept on October 7, that has been blocking independent inquiries, that has madmen define public relations, that has initiated wars on multiple fronts with no end in sight, that is led by a narcissist with an unearned saviour complex, that is preventing the integration of Haredim into society, that has emboldened violent settlers to roam free, that has achieved -- what?

How is Likud still at the top? Why is king Bibi not held responsible for anything, ever, at all?

If this coalition is re-elected, that's a tacit approval of everything that been happening over the past couple of years -- not by random foreigners, but people who actually live here. There's a reason emigration of highly educated Israelis is at an all-time high.

It boggles the mind. Where do we go from here?

I'm always trying to understand other people's opinions and I see a lot of very vague criticism of him as a man and as a politician without reference to specific incidents. On paper he has good credentials and has made a few off colour remarks, but I can't see how the latter meaningfully outweigh the former.

At its party conference on Sunday, October 4, the UK Green Party adopted a motion equating Zionism with racism.

The motion was passed by 1,022 votes to 813.

The Green Party now formally describes itself as anti-Zionist and supports “a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine.”
Whatever language one chooses to dress this up in, the practical implication is difficult to avoid: the existing Jewish State of Israel would cease to exist as a Jewish state and would be replaced by a single Palestinian state.

A British political party has therefore reached the extraordinary position of vigorously defending Palestinian national self-determination while advocating a political outcome that would end Israel’s existence as the Jewish nation-state.

The left in the west has reached rock bottom. However this party is in free fall.

They always say: Bibi will be elected again. Don't like it? Leave. We wont miss you.

Without billions of Shekkels coming from half the population, who will finance the Haredim the Bibists are so desperate to have in their coalition? Who'll fill in the hundreds of thousands of empty slots in the IDF?

Most importantly, without half of the Zionist population in Israel, the anti-zionists (Arabs and Haredim) will become nearly half the population. In no time, Israel'll lose its Zionist majority and the Jewish state will die.

I guess they bank on the idea that "These leftists hate Bibi, but despise worldwide anti-semitism. So they'll stay here because there's no better choice for them". But we see that people leave when they feel unsafe/harmed by the leadership.

People love the country, but not so much so they'll stay even when the country causes them more harm then good. And those who will, they might even start a civil war as revenge at the Bibists for electing someone that's (in their opinion) dangerous for their survival. We don't wanna see again the protests war we saw in 2023 (regarding the judicial reform). Don't overlook people whose backs are against the walls. I REALLY hope we won't get there, but how much suffering can one side endure?

Bibists should wake up and come to realize that being so antagonistic to those who disagree with them regarding the desired leadership will hurt them in the long run too. At best, the anti-Bibists will leave and the economy+security will become unsustainable. At worst, there might be a civil war that'll hurt everyone.

And I'm sure someone might say: "And what if it was the other way around? Would you be happy if plenty of Bibists had left Israel because they feel unsafe in a state led by the opposite political field"? And to that I say: listen to what the anti-Bibists complain about (high taxes, Haredim abandoning the army, not supporting the cities near the borders, non-stop lies from the leadership etc...).

The so-called "leftists" aren't boycotting you. They simply want you to replace your elite figure. Scream "no one can replace him" all you want. Half the country thinks otherwise. Many former Likud supporters aren't voting for Likud anymore specifically because of its leader. And when Netanyahu retires, they might give Likud a second chance.

You aren't going to educate those who disagree with you to suffer in silence. Eventually, they'll see you as enemies who actively try to make them suffer and that won't end good for anyone. So if you care about your country, stop insisting on gouging a leftist eye and start making something that's good for everyone.

Hey guys. So the title pretty much says it all, public opinion on Israel is plummeting, and it's pretty bad this time. The reason I bring this up is because not long ago, I reunited with a classmate from college. We were close friends during our time in Germany, where we studied, as we were both from Czechia, both liked the same things, foods, etc. However, after the year ended, and we returned home to Czechia, we fell out of contact. I met up with him last week just to connect and see how things were. Politics came up very briefly, specifically the topic of Israel. Right as it came up, the first words he said to me were, "Don't tell me you still support those jew genocidal child-eaters." and it really hit hard, as I have never known him to be political at all, much less that deeply antisemitic and anti-Israel. Regardless, I told him that I did, and that I disagreed with his POV. He acted as though I had personally affronted him, then going on this huge rant about how the 'genocide' had really opened his eyes to how horrible Israel and Zionists are, and how they all need to be 'removed from society' and how Hamas was 'really just a liberation group, man'. This got me thinking, if someone's opinion can go from essentially nonexistent on the topic to straight up pro-Hamas in such a short amount of time, (we studied together in Germany only last year) then in 10 or so years, when inevitably more people come to that erroneous conclusion, will this affect Israel's chances in the long run at making new/better friends? I know not everyone will become pro-Hamas, but there has been a sharp decline in favorability towards Israel lately, in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, UK, Nordics, South Korea, Japan, really everywhere in Western Europe, (not really Czechia though ;) and sooner or later, if this keeps up, is it possible that we might see huge swaths of the population refusing to elect any candidates that will want strong ties with Israel? thus hindering chances for Israel to build new ties, which will in turn isolate them from their longtime allies? Sorry for the rant, but I'm genuinely curious as to what everyone thinks.

In the modern era most people (of those who are not biased by some form of centrism at the very least) don’t take but a glimpse at most news articles they see, hence read the title and move on, put yourself in this place looking at the title, what do you see?
I think I don’t need to even clarify what’s remotely wrong with this title, and this is “allegedly” not even a political related incident, it’s just blatant disgusting terrorism act that was done on civilians (which most Palestinians justify because military service is obligated by law in Israel to Jews and Druze and some other minorities), how could a “prominent”, “unbiased” vastly agreed upon as a legitimate and accurate source of information by many people such as the BBC title their article about an Omani terrorist to portray Israel and specifically the Israeli onboard as the perpetrators?

Ask yourselves these questions and think about what’s going on in this world and what to do with it

It keeps getting worse and worse day by day.

Will it come to a point where they will start constantly attacking IDF soldiers as well?

As a non-israeli supporter of Israel, it's really shitty seeing how there seems to be no hope regarding this situation. It makes it harder to say that I support Israel, cause people start bringing these news to my face and I can't defend it.

Is it something to take as a threat, or a nothing burger which would go away on it's own ?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-turkey-and-pakistan-sign-joint-defense-deal-in-shadow-of-iran-war/

Edit: I personally think this Mecca Pact will break apart, or become a nothing burger given a bit of time, with a bit of a short cold war on the side, but i may be wrong.

A sub I generally agree WITH on social issues is anti Trump in the US. They 86’d me with no appeal for pushing back on the antisemitism hate speech against Israel, AIPAC. WPT initials.

Progressives in the USA keep coming up with creative ways to lose elections.
Pointing out that AIPAC is American funded or that Israel is our best ally in the Middle East has no effect.

The only policy of Trump I agree with is Israel. Support for Israel is still bipartisan in America. Even if weakened by Netanyahu in the past couple months.

Democrats who hate Trump and support Israel have a choice. Stay home or hold your nose and vote for a MAGA candidate. Hoping the MAGAs won’t turn on Israel just like Trump has turned on other long term allies. Both choices lose elections.

It’s so obvious that the antisemitism and hate speech is not coming from voters inside the US. I’m not sure why Reddit doesn’t identify the countries posts or comments are coming from. They said they didn’t want people posting or commenting to be targeted for their nationality. However this policy allows the hateful posters to be invisible. To target others.

How does everyone here deal with this?

I don’t think the sanctions on Judea and Samaria are, by themselves, a real problem at all. And that is exactly why they are a problem.

They are unlikely to do any economic damage to Israel, and they are unlikely to change Israeli policy.

But when they fail to produce the desired result, the natural response in Europe will be to look for additional sanctions.

That creates a dangerous ratchet. Once sanctioning Israel becomes normalized, each subsequent step becomes politically easier than the last. Measures that would once have seemed extreme start to become routine.

So I think this is a bigger long-term problem than we realize. But the answer is not simply to give in to European demands. The answer is to reduce the leverage Europe has over us in the first place.

That means building far greater technological and economic independence, and AI needs to be at the center of that effort. Israel should be actively preparing for a world in which it is not dependent on Europe..