It's time to break ranks with the left | Caroline Glick Clips

Welcome to another episode of the Carolyn Glick Show. I'm back in Israel again to record this show. We have a great guest today. I'm meeting with my friend, retired Brigadier General Amira Vivi, who founded an incredibly important organization called ISDF, which is an organization of retired IDF generals, senior leaders, and war fighters who have come together to try to advance on the National Security agenda and Zionism, both as a movement, social movement and also as a think tank, um like that. We're going to talk to him in a moment about what's happening today in the IDF, but I wanted to start talking a little bit about what's happening in Israel today by telling you a story.

I think it was Friday. Last week, a very popular rock star in Israel named Shomo Artsy called for a national dialogue between the

left

and the right to sit down and try to resolve differences peacefully and cordially. Uh Artzi won the Israel Prize. He lit one of the torches in Israel. Independence Day Celebration, I think last year, he is a national icon, he is an old rocker and very loved by many people throughout the country, so he asked everyone to bury the hatchet, especially on the

left

and he they will sit and they came together and he was immediately attacked by all these leftist leftist leaders and icons and one of the people who spoke out against him was Uriv Oppenheimer, the former peace chief now, and he said he called for a boycott of Shalamar, his albums and his music and not be invited to play anywhere in the Israeli entertainment sector which is heavily controlled by the left and elsewhere, so uh artzi calls for a cordial and respectful dialogue between the disparate parts of Israeli society that are on both sides of the fence on judicial reform and he was attacked and there were calls to boycott his work and himself from the left and the same thing has essentially happened to all of us on the left, including the president of Israel.

Isaac Herzog, who calls for a dialogue between the two sides, between the government and the Knesset, on the one hand, and the left, on the other, on the issue of judicial reform and are being subjugated, subjected to protests, calls for a boycott , there was a huge Protest in front of Herzog's personal residents in Tel Aviv last week and protests in front of the president's residence in Jerusalem, so everyone on the left who tries to take even a little risk and ask for speeches is immediately harassed ​​by this, um, by this led mob. by uh led by left-wing political activists like Yuri Oppenheimer and others who called for their heads um and I think it's really instructive when you look at the disparity between the current Israeli right and I would say the right in the United States, the Republicans. in the United States here on the left and, to a greater extent, also in the Democratic Party, where you see that among the right-wing factions in Israel there is a great disparity of views and lifestyles, there are ultra-Orthodox and religious Zionists . and you have secular zionists and you have security hawks and you have social conservatives and you have social liberals you have socialists and you have capitalists free market capitalists and you have populists you have economic populists I mean, you have everything, from everywhere, you know you have people who are like I said social conservatives and there are people who are libertarians and they all fit under this very big, spiteful, loud, noisy tent of the political right in Israel and they all have a place and can work together, so it's fun. when people call this government the most far-right party, it is actually the most diverse government we have seen in Israel, it really has representatives from people from all walks of life in Israel and its main common denominator is that Everyone wants that are very pro-Israel or Zionist.

You could say that the ultra-Orthodox are, but I don't think that's true. They may not call themselves Zionists, but they are very, very nationalistic and pro-Israel. I think you know that patriotism is what brings them all together and makes it possible that, despite their disparity in views on how they want to live their own lives, they can unite around something bigger, which is the life of this country um and on the other hand on the left you see with this protest against Lomo artsy on Friday and what they did to the president and what they did to the members of yesha teed who simply had the audacity to smile at Netanyahu and look at him, you know , ogling him admiringly in the Knesset in an image that went viral about two weeks ago, which says that the left will not accept any non-uniform position from anyone if you Express even the slightest sympathy for the right if you are willing to not hate Netanyahu completely or hope that his wife is murdered in a beauty salon in Tel Aviv, where there were thousands of leftists in a mob, threatening her not to let her leave a beauty. her salon where she went to get her hair cut last week and then blaming her for how she dares to go get her hair cut in Tel Aviv at the height of her protests.

I know she organized everything, she planned her appointment at the beauty salon for that day. of the protest, I mean, you see this rabble, this mob that is foaming at the mouth with hatred and then, when you see any expression that goes against that hatred that goes against this absolute rejection of any kind of dialogue with the right, any kind of acceptance of the legitimacy of the right, they immediately cut them down, they immediately attack them, they find protesters outside their house telling them they are terrible people and you see the same thing on the left in the United States. same ideological rigidity and uniformity, and you know, on university campuses and increasingly in the Democratic Party, dissident voices are attacked and the more radical a population becomes, the less democratic they are, the less willing they are to accept any compromise to give any Any space for disparate points of view not only makes you know not only in the country, which of course you won't know, they will cancel culture in the United States and here it is very, very powerful, but even the descent within their own rows, even disagreement there is. there is no room for disagreement, it's not for nothing that Benny shoots, who is a kind of soft center on the left, um, he can't

break

ranks

, he's too afraid to

break

ranks

because he's afraid that the people there will cut him off head.

He is in his camp if he does it because the prices they are demanding from the people of um for not accepting the dictates of the most radical voices on the left are too high, at least now I think they will cross the Rubicon. and we will get to a point where it will make more sense, so the price will be lower to break ranks, but right now that is not what we are seeing and we are not seeing it in the United States either and my friend Lee Smith, who's been on this show, he wrote an article over the weekend in a tablet magazine and you should see it, which is called Biden lights up Biden, sets Israel on fire and Lee makes a very broad claim that the Biden administration is behind what is happening in the streets. in Israel and it is very clear that the Biden administration is openly supporting the left in its efforts to block the right from preventing the government from doing what it promised voters it would do, which is to impose minimal restrictions on the judiciary in Israel. as part of a broader legal reform process to put Democratic checks and balances on the power of our legal fraternity and you see Biden, Kamala Harris, Secretary Blinking, National Security Advisor Sullivan and, very openly, Tom Knights , the ambassador here, all putting their thumb on the scale. on behalf of the anti-government left that they have been for the last three years, they have been funding the movement for quality government.

I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago in JNS and this is the movement that is at the heart of it. mafia chaos that is plaguing Israel that is trying to pit Israelis against each other that every week there is another letter from the high-tech people, the yoga instructors, the IDF commanders in the reserves, which we will talk about a little with Amira Vivian, but you see all that. this is a very, very well funded organization with millions and millions and millions of dollars behind them and Tom 9 AIDS surprisingly you know said that the Israeli people want the United States to interfere in their internal politics, so no, that's not in Absolutely true, the Israeli people do not want that kind of interference from foreign powers and what is happening here in the internal political debates about the checks and balances in our democracy there is nothing that is more an internal matter than that and, However, the almost itinerant ambassadors in his interference, he overcame The weekend he brutally attacked along with Ned Price, State Department spokesman, Finance Minister Batal Smotrich, for saying that the city of Hawara, the terrorist city of Hawara, where two Israeli brothers were executed last week, Halal and Yagel Yaniv at the Kawara crossing, and we have had and wrote about this week in my last column in JNS that there was an average of two or three attacks with stonings and cocktails Molotov against Israelis during the last month that led to the murder of the Aniva brothers and Hawara is one of the most In the extreme cities they had a fireworks show and a carnival to celebrate the massacre of seven Jews in Nevada Cove last month about weeks after synagogue services on Friday night and so Batalis Modric himself had passed through the city moments before the Independent brothers were murdered, so in a moment of passion he said something really stupid and instead of letting it go calm, Ned Price attacked him.

Tom Knights continues to attack him, saying that he wanted to throw him off a plane and not let him enter the United States. itself is violent rhetoric and this is all part of an effort to actually weaken Israel's democratic institutions to strengthen the mob that seeks the overthrow of the government and the imposition of non-governmental and non-democratic restrictions on the right of the democratically elected government and the Knesset to govern and legislate laws and this is really a worrying phenomenon that we are seeing here and we see it at a

time

when the United States through Hari Omar and others is openly embracing the Palestinian narrative that appropriates the Jewish narrative and our history of the land of Israel deny themselves Jewish history and deny our rights to national self-determination in our homeland and this is very openly now with Hariyama as special representative for American Palestinian policy under Biden.

Administration that supports the Palestinians, including the Palestinian terrorists against Israel and against the people of Israel um and um, you know, I think we will talk, uh, Amir and I about Iran and what should be done, what could be done , what would be the potential of US involvement in an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, which now seems to be topical, but I think to get to a point where anyone is willing to think about doing something logical in relationship with Iran or anything else, the left in the United States and the Biden Administration, just like the left in Israel, has to break ranks, that is, embracing irrationality in the name of ideology is something that must be abandoned in order to reach somewhere good, whether the left acts as president.

Herzog and recognize the legitimacy of the government, the legitimacy of democracy in Israel and the democratic process and then sit down responsibly as adults and negotiate a compromise on judicial reform or simply allow it to pass without their support, and the same also when it comes of the National Assembly. For security and cooperation with Israel by left-wing Americans, it is necessary to have people in the administration, whether in the Pentagon or the White House or the State Department, who wake up from this great ideological coup or remove themselves from this ideological straitjacket and say, okay, wait a minute, what chance do we have?

What are the threats we have? How can we use our alliances? Our alliance with Israel. Our alliance with Sunni Arab states to advance US national interests. But I think wherever you look to the left. In the Western world, what we see more and more is ideological rigidity, it is intellectual terrorism. Social terror of leftists so that they do not break ranks and accept the legitimacy of non-leftist actors in their societies and in their governments. And I'm very afraid that if we don't say some kind of Awakening among a significant number of people on the left and a willingness on their part to accept democracy, accept democracy and embrace it, and things are going to be unpleasant in Israel, they're going to be unpleasant. in the United States are going to be unpleasant in the Middle East and in the world.

I, again, you know, I've been harping on that a lot. I also wrote about that in Newsweek last week about what Herzog did in his speech. and calling for dialogue and accepting the principle that we need legal reform in Israel and accepting democracy as a basis for governing in Israel and the legitimacy of the electoral results. I think that's really the starting point and oursalvation as it is in this very difficult

time

. both politically and strategically vis-à-vis Iran vis-à-vis the Palestinians, it largely depends on enough members of the left following Herzog's lead and not that of out-of-control leftists like Yerev Levine and let's talk. about with amiraBibi, uh, in just a minute, former IDF chiefs of staff who are calling for civil war and insurrection, so those are my thoughts for now and I think we should shift our discussion to Brigadier General Avivi , thank you.