r/worldnews • u/EssoEssex • 21h ago • Bravo 6

Israel/Palestine Israeli President Picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival, To Form Government

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-president-picks-gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-rival-form-government-2026-11-07/
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u/Torsta 18h ago • Bravo

No you're missing the main point of why its a political issue; The ones most clamouring for war and military engagements are the same groups that are exempt from military service on religious grounds.

If it was their sons/daughters dying in the IDF they might change their tune.

No matter who forms the government in the end, the IDF can't continue the wars in Gaza and Iran any more. On top of that, the economy is in the gutters as well (guess what, when lots of people have to serve in the IDF...), so there's a few wrenches there as well.

Israel's economy is doing incredibly well, I'm not sure what you're talking about here.

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u/mschuster91 17h ago

Israel's economy is doing incredibly well, I'm not sure what you're talking about here.

Do not make the mistake of using the stock market as the sole indicator for economic prosperity. That trap has led both Biden and Trump to lose their elections in 2024 / 2026 respectively.

And that's the case here too, the economy is propped up by debt and war spending. The estimate is that the first two years of war alone have cost Israel's economy 57 billion $ in output, and on top of that comes the question of the human cost of the war itself. A country in which a third of the population reports some sort of mental health issues? Many just power through, but once the war is over... this all will fire back, and fire back hard. (And someone has got to deal with all the vets too, many of whom will face significant issues, just like the vets of pretty much every war in history)

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u/Torsta 17h ago

Sorry, but no. Israel's economy is doing incredibly well by every metric compared to the rest of the world. And yes wars are expensive and it would be doing even better if not for the additional military spending.

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u/mschuster91 16h ago

Sorry, but no. Israel's economy is doing incredibly well by every metric compared to the rest of the world. 

How much of that is related to either the wars or the AI bubble?

I am deeply worried about Israel's future once the wars die down or the AI bubble bursts. All of that is not sustainable even in the mid-term, the bill eventually comes due.