Israel, Antisemitism, and Middle Eastern Geopolitics

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I converse with a nice Jewish boy named

King Salmon

, who publishes here on Substack at

Salmon of Doubt

.

KS was born in America but moved to Israel as a young mensch after an identitarian awakening led him to crave life in an ethnostate—an impulse I obviously relate to!

He’s since built a successful life for himself there, but recently he’s started to find Israeli culture disagreeable, and is even thinking about moving back to the US.

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Topics Include:

• KS’s early alienation from his identity being raised as a Reform Jew in America

• Cultural / behavioral differences between American and Israeli Jews

• The historic reclamation of Hebrew in the vernacular via the Zionist movement—could goyish wypipo bring back Latin in the same way?

• Was KS ever a Kahanist?

• Ethnic balance in Israel between Ashkenazi / Sephardic / Mizrahi Jews and historic tensions between these communities

• Recent Israeli tension over judicial politics—does Talmudic debate make Jews more prone to caring about this (and also the SCOTUS) vs. legislative politics?

• Does KS agree with

  NonZionism
  ’s thesis that Netanyahu is a pragmatist who’s lying to everyone because the Palestinian Question is basically intractable?

• Why can’t Israel pressure Egypt into taking the Pallies? Are they simply too valuable to the Arab states as a fifth column against Israel?

• The Abraham Accords as a geopolitical warning to Iran

• Israel and Saudi Arabia need to coalesce to properly contain the Iranians

• The Israeli saying that “Arabs play backgammon while Persians play chess”

• Jews and Persians have a precedent of amity in the story of Cyrus ending the Babylonian Captivity (also Persians are just far more civilized)

• The Arabs only conquered the Near East because Rome and Persia had destroyed each other, allowing Muhammad’s boys to attack when both sides were half dead

• Why Persians consistently punched above their weight intellectually and maintained their culture / language through the Islamic conquest

• Is Christianity (esp. Catholicism) genuinely more syncretic towards paganism etc. than Islam, or is it merely sneakier about its parochial totalizing impulse?

• Is the Sunni / Shia divide mostly an ethnic tension between Arabs and Persians?

• Cousin marriage facilitates tribal affiliation and undermines state consolidation

• People don’t want to believe Iran is coordinating Hamas because they’re Sunni

• Is Hezbollah still a genuine threat to Israel?

• Can Israel rehabilitate the Palestinians via reeducation camps etc.?

• What is the realistic maximalist approach to the PQ if Bibi gets a blank check from Blumpf? Self deportation? Ethnically cleansing Pallies into Syria / Jordan?

• Could Israel be considered a modern-day fascist state?

• Jews love Holocaust jokes while Germans are traumatized by them

• Jews aren’t really seen as a downtrodden and oppressed people anymore

• Third World Zoomers and Jewish Boomers both have cognitive dissonance

• Walt is inclined to support Israel without qualification… but also demands that American Jews stop being whiny and abandon their victim mindset

• KS feels Jewish Boomers are more driven by the Six-Day War than the Holocaust

• Why both sides claimed victory in the Yom Kippur War and how this compares to the War of 1812 (and in all likelihood the Russo-Ukraine War)

• Secular Refuseniks in Israel (“help Jews from the former Soviet Union…”)

• Walt recalls a hilarious Nixon Tape about not caring about Russian Jews:

• KS’s thoughts on the Ultra Orthodox and their contentious role in Israeli politics

• Why even secular libtard Americans Jews are often sensitive about filthy goyim making fun of Hasidim despite themselves finding the Ultra Orthodox annoying

• Antisemites love quoting Haaretz to make fun of Jews

• Walt argues that high end antisemites are often crypto-philosemites

• The Alt Right leveraged tons of Yiddish slang and had a Jewish sense of humor

• How “don’t punch right” often lets trashy schizos set the tone for everyone in WN

• Middle American Cishajnals don’t understand Jewish communicative norms

• Why Walter is pressuring Jews to explicitly frame themselves as white

• The tendency of liberal secular Jews to miscegenate with goyim ensures that Jewish culture will inevitably trend rightward over time

• Ben Shapiro and similar types of right wing Jews aren’t really antiwhite anymore, both because Drumpf did everything Jared Kushner told him to and because they finally understand Matt Walsh / Charlie Kirk don’t want to Holocaust them

• Walt wants to negotiate an accord between Jews and smarter antisemites

• Walt also wants Jews to be more chill about us making fun of them

• Is Jewish paranoia actually warranted? KS makes the case and Walt pushes back.

• Purim Antisemitism vs Hanukkah Antisemitism

• These days it’s not white nationalists carving swastikas on Jewish doors but brown Zoomers, bisexual guys who hate their dad, etc.

• It doesn’t matter whether Jews are actually White—third world brown peepo see us all as the same group, and we need to act in concert to defend ourselves

• Go check out KS’s recent article, Instinctual Pep Rally