Yom Kippur War

Any chance there'd be peace, they worked to derail it.

During the Rabin period, it was the first period of economic growth, with the beginning of growth, which Israel had been in indulgence since the Yom Kippur War.

And during the Rabin, there was investment suddenly.

Because of Oslo, foreign countries began to invest in Israel.

Um, and that was, that was one of the cases in which, where they figured out how effective antisemitism was.

They then repurposed what they were doing in Eastern Europe, um, during the '60s and '70s in a Middle Eastern context, um, and started essentially after the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, when Israel defeated, um, Soviet-backed states, um- The, the Soviets realized that their, uh, conventional military means were not strong enough, and they, they saw Israel as, um, a proxy of the United States and the West.

Um, and therefore, in this great power struggle at the time, they wanted to degrade Israel and its power, and so they realized their conventional weapons were not sufficient, and they started using active measures, um, to, to weaken Israel and the United States.

But the way that they found was most effective to do that was by spreading antisemitism in the Muslim world.

Yossi Sarid said that the time had come for young people with their own perspective to start to do things their own way, which is to say, to do things differently.

For a couple of years already, the Black Panthers and other Sephardi activists had protested, and to those protests were now being added a new wave of new protests that followed the Yom Kippur War, reflecting a feeling a lot of people had that their government had failed them, failed to protect them from a surprise attack by the Egyptians and the Syrians.

And Yossi Sarid saw that the time had come for a change, for listening to the people of Israel and how they saw things, rather than telling them how they ought to see things, as the founders of the state, ideologues with fixed ideas about politics and about morality and about Jewish history so often did.

In his first months in the Knesset, Yossi Sarid had worked out a proposal to reform how elections are run in Israel, adding regional elections where people could decide to run, appealing to the public rather than working their way through party committees run by party elders who wanted nothing so much as for the people who had power in the past to have it also in the future.