# Israel’s Success Method: Settlements and Tourist Behavior

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120321603649343568
- Source account: [@mmemignon](https://x.com/mmemignon)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:30
- Published: 2026-11-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior

## Transcript

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=3) There doesn't seem to be shame about exploiting someone else.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=7) The shame is in allowing yourself to be exploited.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=11) That mentality is so ingrained, it has another name as well, the success method.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=17) So I have a tiny dog named Lily, and I like to go on errands with her.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=21) When I went into my local Super Sol grocery store, they told me that I had to hold her if I wanted to come in.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=26) So the next time I went there, I looked for the person that told me this.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=29) When I couldn't find them, I put her on the ground like I wanted.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=33) So what was I doing that's just so Israeli?

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=35) It's called tsiktsit ha-tsdiak, which translates to success method, meaning doing what I want until someone tells me otherwise.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=44) Okay, you wanna see how I'm getting in without standing- All this line ... all this line?

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=53) The assumption is that there's no harm in trying to push a boundary, and if nobody stops you, you've succeeded.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=61) Today, more than 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank in East Jerusalem.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=67) We can see this philosophy clearly in Palestine, in the relentless expansion of settlements, and in the continuous testing of what the world will tolerate.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=81) Pushing these boundaries requires a violence that doesn't remain confined to Palestine.

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=87) It travels with the settlers. Go to Gaza.

[1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=89) We're genociding you. Go. Fuck you, motherfucker. Okay.

[1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=96) You love Palestine? I love Palestine, of course. you. you. you. your mama. your daddy.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=102) But my money, okay, build your country. Oh, wow, okay.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=109) The residents of Siargao Island reported unruly and rude behavior from a group of Israeli tourists.

[1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=115) A pro-Palestinian flag hanging outside a cafe in Siargao.

[2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=120) A group of Israeli tourists allegedly destroyed CCTV cameras, threw rocks, and violently assaulted the owners.

[2:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=129) There's a hostility and aggression so similar across all these clips, one that seems to exist in another form in the colony as well.

[2:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=138) Excuse me, I ordered shakshuka. Oh, and what is this?

[2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=140) Pizza. And what did you order? Shakshuka. And what is this? Pizza.

[2:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=143) But there is In Israel, we don't say, "Excuse me, do you know where my coffee is?"

[2:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5eMwvUoSkIs0/en/israel-s-success-method-settlements-and-tourist-behavior?t=148) We-