Max Blumenthal : The Deep State Doesn't Care Who Wins Elections

Watch on YouTube

Now Playing

Transcript

81 segments

0:00

Even if he did leave office voluntarily

0:03

or involuntarily,

0:05

he's going to be replaced by someone,

0:07

maybe with a nicer personality, maybe

0:09

with a more amiable spirit, but the

0:11

policies will be nearly the same. Isn't

0:13

that so?

0:15

>> Well, I've been saying that I think

0:18

Netanyahu, while he's he's blamed for

0:21

the position that Israel's in,

0:23

actually

0:25

uh managed to buy Israel a lot of time.

0:30

He toppled the uh Biden administration.

0:33

He basically helped destroy Kamala

0:36

Harris, and he's destroying Donald

0:38

Trump.

0:40

And he could destroy any further

0:42

administration because he has been able

0:45

to connect uh so deeply

0:49

through the Israel lobby and through

0:51

Israel's cutouts in the US, which he

0:53

helped develop, going back to the 1980s

0:56

and '90s, as the main Hasbarist

0:59

propagandist for Israel.

1:02

Uh he he's been able to

1:05

uh forge this unprecedented relationship

1:07

between the Likud-controlled state of

1:09

Israel and the Republican Party.

1:12

And I don't I don't think replacing

1:15

Netanyahu will provide Israel with the

1:17

clear answer. Israel's crisis Israel

1:19

faces is not is not Netanyahu. The

1:22

crisis is

1:24

the anachronistic colonial structure of

1:27

Zionism, and Netanyahu has been able to

1:30

try to paper over the contradictions.

1:32

Um but if he's replaced, it could be

1:34

with someone who is positioning himself

1:37

in many ways to his right, like Naftali

1:39

Bennett, who comes from the Likud Party,

1:42

who is one of the few figures who speaks

1:44

fluent English, who's run who's uh vying

1:47

for prime minister,

1:49

and uh actually was raised in

1:50

California, is close to the whole

1:53

Israeli tech sector, but is very aligned

1:56

with the settlement movement and

1:58

recently said attacked Netanyahu for not

2:00

providing

2:01

enough support to destabilize Iran

2:04

internally and said that he will be the

2:06

more effective figure to generate regime

2:09

change in Iran. And then to Netanyahu's

2:11

left, you have someone like Gabi

2:13

Ashkenazi who is the intellectual author

2:17

of the so-called Dahiya doctrine of

2:18

disproportionate force in attacking

2:21

civilians.

2:23

He presided over the 2006 Israeli

2:26

assault which blew up southern Beirut,

2:28

the quarter known as Dahiya.

2:30

Gabi Ashkenazi was also the author of

2:32

the 2008-2009

2:34

assault on the Gaza Strip Operation Cast

2:38

Lead.

2:39

So, he's the center-left. And then you

2:42

have uh

2:44

You have other figures like Benny Gantz

2:46

who might not be as popular who is the

2:48

author of the uh 2014 assault on Gaza.

2:52

And actually in uh previously campaigned

2:55

on how many quote-unquote terrorists he

2:57

killed in Gaza.

2:58

So,

2:59

uh yeah, there's not going to be an

3:01

answer for Israel after Netanyahu. If

3:04

anything, they will

3:06

there will be a less recognizable figure

3:09

with less ties to the Republican or

3:12

Democratic party who will be at least as

3:16

fascist as Netanyahu was.

Interactive Summary

Ask follow-up questions or revisit key timestamps.

The video discusses the political landscape in Israel, arguing that replacing Benjamin Netanyahu will not solve the underlying crisis, which the speaker identifies as the structural nature of Zionism. The analysis suggests that potential successors across the political spectrum hold equally hardline or even more extreme views on regional policy, particularly regarding Iran and military aggression.