No longer the same Israel? October 7th and the future of the Jewish State

Home Shows The Debate To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: A woman hugs a sign at a memorial at the site of the Nova music festival, where partygoers were killed and kidnapped during the deadly Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack, on the third anniversary of the attack, near Reim, southern Israel, October 7, 2026. © Ronen Zvulun, REUTERS 43:35 Issued on: 08/10/2026 - 00:10 From the show For now, it's still Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel. In 2023, in the immediate aftermath of the country’s worst day of bloodshed in its history, pundits predicted the quick demise of the right wing prime minister. On this the third anniversary of the October Seventh attacks, Israel’s still not reckoned with the security failures on the day, the root causes of the Hamas-led terror attack, the brutal war of vengeance that followed and most of all, Netanyahu’s still prime minister with a fair shot at re-election. Even if the Likud leader’s voted out on October 27th, his most serious general election rivals don't exactly advocate for a radical break when it comes to the Palestinians. Three years on, there are trigger words, such as ‘genocide’ that make many supporters of Israel either enrage or squirm. Central to the direction Israel takes is another word - Zionism. The UK’s Green Party has now gone so far as to equate it with racism. What did Zionism mean in 1948 when Israel was founded? What does it mean today? And can the concept be compatible with a lasting solution that brings peace to the Middle East? Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.