Meretz
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Sep 13, 2026
Marc SchulmanGUEST
No one talks about peace.
Dan RavivHOST
And the democratim, by the way, is a merger for folks who missed it between the old Labor Party and the more left-wing Meretz.
Marc SchulmanGUEST
No, so I had also a conversation with Yair Golan a few months ago, and he said, you know, I wish the Palestinians would all poof and be gone, but I know that's not real.
Marc SchulmanGUEST
That's not going to happen.
Neri ZilberHOST
Let me just kind of make order for our listeners and viewers.
Neri ZilberHOST
So you mentioned Meretz and Balad.
Neri ZilberHOST
So Meretz was, well, the left-wing Zionist party.
Neri ZilberHOST
They're now part of the Democrats.
Neri ZilberHOST
They've merged with the Labor Party.
IndieHOST
While Soros' critics frequently portray his activism as fundamentally anti-Zionist, this framing arguably obscures a more nuanced reality.
IndieHOST
His son Alexander has argued that his father's actual views mirror those of Israel's left-leaning Meretz and Labor parties, meaning that he is a Zionist.
IndieHOST
Yeah! But that he also, again, the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
IndieHOST
So he funds the anti-Zionists as well, because then they have to say what he tells them.
Lazar BermanGUEST
Um, someone who really is the vision of what these European countries want Israel to be also came out very strongly against this as well.
Lazar BermanGUEST
Um, basically, you're gonna have no one, no one in mainstream Israel, from Meretz to the right, uh, that thinks that it is illegal for Jews to live over this armistice line.
Lazar BermanGUEST
So-
Amanda Borschel-DanHOST
Yeah, what's really interesting, if you look at the swath of the political parties, and of course, uh, Likud is a main contender, but there's also Yesh At!, exclamation point, which is, uh, led by Gadi Eisenkot, and his comment on E1, Mevaseret Adumim, was, "It should be settled.
Pesach WolickiHOST
And that three and a quarter percent entitles you to a minimum of four seats in Knesset.
Pesach WolickiHOST
So for example, last election in 2022, The Meretz party, which is the hard left party in Israel that sort of doesn't exist anymore, they merged with another party, with the Labor Party.
Pesach WolickiHOST
to create this left-wing party that is now called, believe it or not, the Democrats.
Pesach WolickiHOST
They're called HaDemokratim.
Pesach WolickiHOST
Anyway, that's what they named
Doug ReedHOST
themselves.
Pesach WolickiHOST
But the Meretz party, which for decades was the most left-wing party in Israel, really, failed to reach the threshold, but they came really close.
Pesach WolickiHOST
They got 3.19% of the vote, and the threshold is 3.25.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
Shas had an agreement with UTJ, the two ultra-Orthodox parties.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
Labor had an agreement with Meretz, the two left-wing parties.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
Yisrael Beitenu, Jewish Home, Arab parties did not sign agreements.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
you know, voter surplus vote agreements.
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Haviv Rettig GurHOST
Netanyahu's religious right coalition, whose voters really are a religious right coalition.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
The two anti-Netanyahu major vehicles, Yashal and Together, Bennett, Lapid, and Eisenkot.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
The explicit left, Meretz, Labor, forming a joint list in the Democrats.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
The Haredi parties were up to four.
David GibbsGUEST
One after the other.
David GibbsGUEST
You know, Meretz and Macron, I think that at least at one point they were polling below 20%.
David GibbsGUEST
I'm not quite sure what the latest polls are.
David GibbsGUEST
And so these are really deeply incompetent leaders.
CornHOST
He invoked the Hannibal Directive.
CornHOST
If you're a Meretz voter, O for Winter is your nightmare.
CornHOST
And yet...
CornHOST
And yet the electoral math turns him into your best friend.
DanielHOST
I want to pivot or go back to the conversation about the Zionist left.
DanielHOST
I mean, also I was thinking about Meretz and the Democrats in Israel, and then you have the Hadash party and kind of these kind of two-state solution kind of model that has been espoused by the Zionist left.
DanielHOST
But then I want to connect that with what we're seeing happening among many Jews in the U.S., Like there's the example of Bernie Sanders, who's like, yeah, Netanyahu is the worst person ever, but we need to pursue a two-state solution.
DanielHOST
We have a lot of Jewish American commentators who are way more critical now of... not just Netanyahu, but also of the construction of Israel.
Yaakov KatzGUEST
That is, to people who don't know what that means, because that's a new invention, it's basically two parties that were merged into one.
Yaakov KatzGUEST
The famous Labour Party, the party that founded this country, the party of David Ben-Gurion, of Shimon Peres, of Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir, that party is now nothing, so it became a piece together with Meretz, which was the farther left party, of labor even, they had to merge together and they have a party that's now polling pretty strong also has to be said at about 11, 12, sometimes 10, but they're also pretty consistent.
Yaakov KatzGUEST
So you look at that block, they are at about, depending on the poll, 57, 58, 59 sometimes, but still shy of that 61 that is needed for a governing majority.
Yaakov KatzGUEST
So then the question becomes- Let's say the polls are right.
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