Yom Kippur War

The Bedouins are at record highs.

The turnout in general, if you have that graph, Paul, I sent you earlier, is the highest it's been since after the Yom Kippur War.

Just shows how important these elections are to the Israelis.

And you've got videos.

But I was looking at comparisons.

We'll talk about it in a second.

This war and how it started, the impact it's having, et cetera, how are other countries reacting to the similar to the Yom Kippur War and the oil embargo afterwards.

Comparisons are insane.

Biggest turnout they've had in 30 years or something like that, 75%, 77%.

I think Yom Kippur War was the only war.

Or it's around

that same size.

That's our biggest single problem.

One thing I've been thinking a lot about today, and I've actually mentioned it briefly earlier, is the similarities between what we're seeing now and the ramifications of the Yom Kippur War and the embargo, the oil embargo afterwards.

It's just wild to see history repeat itself to that extent.

The Arab countries came together and...

Currently, what we have standing out in this democratic feast in Israel is that we have very high turnout, extremely high turnout, actually the highest documented in over 50 years.

It's a Yom Kippur war,

yeah?

Yeah, and that may be significant because it may and probably will influence the minimum votes needed in order for any party to actually be elected.

If a man is missing in action today, it's a big problem in Israel.

After the Yom Kippur War, it says, Rabbi Yosef had a thousand cases of agunot, which he spent hours on each case, days on each case, to go through.

9-11,

exactly.

What

war is it? 1973.

1973? Yom Kippur War.

Terrible.

Though Algeria did dispatch four Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey following August's coup attempt in a show of support, they did not participate in hostilities such as they were, this will be the first time Algeria's army has ventured beyond Algeria's borders for more than half a century.

In 1973, Algeria sent air and ground forces to support the Arab coalition fighting Israel in the Yom Kippur War, although by the time Algeria's tanks reached the front lines, Algeria's allies had already been defeated.

Algeria is not marching to Niger out of any big-hearted concern for the well-being of Nigerians, at least not entirely.

Algeria has significant economic interests in Niger, specifically oil facilities, belonging to Algeria's state-owned energy company Sonotrac.

The map is simply not there, not just for this election, but in perpetuity.

I often A lot of folks, frankly, have been referring to the catastrophe of the Yom Kippur War and the lessons learned in the aftermath.

So many look to that as some measure of hope.

The catastrophe of the Yom Kippur War led to peace with Egypt just a few years later.

But it's also important to note that the catastrophe of the Yom Kippur War led to Golda Meir resigning.

But the Labour Party doesn't lose the first election.

They actually win the first election.

In Israel, after a national disaster, the government can set up a state commission of inquiry, whose members are chosen by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and which has the power to call any witness, see any document, and name who failed.

These inquiries end up having a lot of political power and have often brought down the leaders who were inquired into, like after the Yom Kippur War, One led to the resignation of the army chief and the pressure around it brought down Golda Meir.

You've also got Ariel Sharon that was cost the defense ministry.

So an October 7th commission would examine the missed intelligence warnings, the years of managing Hamas with money and quiet, and why the army wasn't ready on the border, why help took so many hours to reach the communities and how the hostages talks were handled.

So that's what happened there.

We've never come close to matching that figure, but the two highest annual hikes that we've seen since them came in 1981 during the Iran-Iraq War, 12.5%, and in 1974 following the Yom Kippur War.

In both instances, the soaring inflation was tied to...

Soaring oil prices.