#341 — Gaza & Global Order

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about the events of October 7th and the resulting war in Gaza. They discuss the unraveling of global order, the failure of the IDF, the incompetence of the Netanyahu government, the goals of Hamas, the Saudi peace treaty, the right of Israel to exist, the status of Palestinian and Jewish refugees, victim and perpetrator narratives, compromise vs justice, the Palestinian citizens of Israel, lessons from WW2, the danger of focusing on the past, the perverse significance of the al-Aqsa Mosque, the double standards to which Israel is held, false analogies to European colonialism, the rise of antisemitism, the future of politics in Israel, America’s role in preserving global order, the war in Ukraine, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast, this is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber feed,
0:15.0	and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation.
0:18.0	In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense Podcast, you'll need to subscribe at Sam Harris.org.
0:24.0	There you'll find our private RSS feed to add to your favorite podcatcher,
0:28.0	along with other subscriber-only content.
0:30.0	We don't run ads on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our
0:34.8	subscribers. So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. Okay, well my last podcast seems to have made the rounds. This was one of those audio essays, essentially,
0:56.0	where I took the time to figure out exactly what I wanted to say.
1:00.0	I tend to do a few of those a year I think.
1:05.0	Most of them tend to be PSAs as that one was.
1:08.0	Invariably, my wife, Anica, comes off the bench for these, because she is the best editor I know, and this time was
1:17.0	no exception. The episode titled The Bright Line Between Good and Evil was considerably improved for her input.
1:26.1	And I'm glad so many of you found it useful.
1:29.1	I got an overwhelmingly positive response, I must say, I heard from lots of interesting people.
1:36.0	CEOs and writers and scientists and just a great response.
1:42.0	And today's conversation is on the same topic.
1:46.0	But here I'm bringing in Yvonne Noah Harare,
1:48.5	who I'm sure all of you know.
1:51.0	He's been on the podcast, I think four times before, and as a joke at the end, we can never
1:56.8	get to our topic of common interest, meditation, and the nature of mind, because there are always so many pressing things in the world to talk about.
2:06.0	He falls a historian and a world famous public intellectual.
2:11.0	He wrote Sapiens and Homo deos as well as other books. His books are in print in I think
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