Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Oct 7, 2026 · 53 min · 16 segments
Plus, how one LA school attacked the heat by planting trees, TV critic Eric Deggans has his fall recs, and a new exhibit at LACMA presents past visions of the perfect kitchen.
Madeleine BrandHostEric DeggansGuest
Aluf BennGuestBrad RumbleGuest
Sam LubellGuest
Well, let's first talk about that plane incident, because it was quite a dramatic story, got a lot of attention everywhere.
And how is Netanyahu connecting himself to that incident and using it now as a campaign prop?
Netanyahu's campaign, not for the first time, by the way, as it has been for the past 30 years or so, Netanyahu's campaign is built on invoking fear, hatred, animosity, and anxiety among his voters and among Israeli Jews at large vis-à-vis Israel.
And this, to whoever believes in this worldview, this was another example of how you cannot trust anybody.
And even when you have peace deals, they're always just the basis for more terror.
And I guess this is mainly what Netanyahu is trying to extract out of this incident.
Is it working? Are people buying that or saying, well, yeah, I guess everyone, he's right.
They are all out to get us and therefore we need to give him another term as prime minister?
People are buying that in the sense that the Israeli Jewish public has shifted to the right in terms of their positions.
And even in the camp that is trying to oust Netanyahu and replace Netanyahu, there are at least two parties whose leaders are more or less sharing the same worldview, like Netanyahu, on security, on foreign policy.
And the main contender to run against Netanyahu, former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, is also saying that a Palestinian state is a bad idea and that he opposes it.
He followed others in this space, saying that he would not bring an Arab party, a party representing the Arab minority in Israel, into his coalition.
So in that sense, this worldview is very common after October 7, when Israelis who trusted their military to protect the border said, to have superior intelligence and firepower against any enemy or combination of enemies.
occupation of border communities, military bases, rape, looting, massive killing, total failure of the intelligence and military forces both to anticipate the attack and to respond in kind and in time.
Netanyahu was obviously responsible for the policy, for the overall policy towards Gaza in the very long time where he served as prime minister since 2009 with the a lot of a year and a half before the last election, but also because he ignored the Palestinians.
Two weeks before October 7, he went to the United Nations to say that Israel was on the cusp of peace with Saudi Arabia and that the Palestinians, who are merely 2% of the Arab world, should not have a veto over the peace deal.
Well, let's first talk about that plane incident, because it was quite a dramatic story, got a lot of attention everywhere.
And how is Netanyahu connecting himself to that incident and using it now as a campaign prop?
Netanyahu's campaign, not for the first time, by the way, as it has been for the past 30 years or so, Netanyahu's campaign is built on invoking fear, hatred, animosity, and anxiety among his voters and among Israeli Jews at large vis-à-vis Israel.
And this, to whoever believes in this worldview, this was another example of how you cannot trust anybody.
And even when you have peace deals, they're always just the basis for more terror.
And I guess this is mainly what Netanyahu is trying to extract out of this incident.
Is it working? Are people buying that or saying, well, yeah, I guess everyone, he's right.
They are all out to get us and therefore we need to give him another term as prime minister?
People are buying that in the sense that the Israeli Jewish public has shifted to the right in terms of their positions.
And even in the camp that is trying to oust Netanyahu and replace Netanyahu, there are at least two parties whose leaders are more or less sharing the same worldview, like Netanyahu, on security, on foreign policy.
And the main contender to run against Netanyahu, former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, is also saying that a Palestinian state is a bad idea and that he opposes it.
He followed others in this space, saying that he would not bring an Arab party, a party representing the Arab minority in Israel, into his coalition.
So in that sense, this worldview is very common after October 7, when Israelis who trusted their military to protect the border said, to have superior intelligence and firepower against any enemy or combination of enemies.
occupation of border communities, military bases, rape, looting, massive killing, total failure of the intelligence and military forces both to anticipate the attack and to respond in kind and in time.
Netanyahu was obviously responsible for the policy, for the overall policy towards Gaza in the very long time where he served as prime minister since 2009 with the a lot of a year and a half before the last election, but also because he ignored the Palestinians.
Two weeks before October 7, he went to the United Nations to say that Israel was on the cusp of peace with Saudi Arabia and that the Palestinians, who are merely 2% of the Arab world, should not have a veto over the peace deal.
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