#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 143 minutes

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(10:41) - Palestine
(35:09) - Hate
(48:40) - Antisemitism
(56:37) - Peace in the Middle East
(1:03:34) - West Bank
(1:13:43) - Hamas
(1:23:31) - Two-state solution
(1:39:21) - Jerusalem
(1:46:04) - Role of the US
(1:47:54) - Ghassan Kanafani
(1:58:39) - 2024 Elections
(1:59:48) - Poetry
(2:09:08) - Language
(2:17:36) - Hope

Transcript

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Muhammad al-Qurd, a world renowned Palestinian poet, writer, journalist, and an influential voice speaking out and fighting for the Palestinian cause.
0:12.0	He provides a very different perspective on Israel and Palestine than my previous two episodes with Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoval Noah Harari.
0:22.0	I hope his story and his words add to your understanding of this part of the world as it did to mine.
0:28.0	I will continue to have difficult long-form conversations such as these, always with empathy and humility, but with backbone.
0:38.0	And please allow me to briefly comment about criticisms I receive of who I am as an interviewer and a human being.
0:46.0	I am not afraid to travel anywhere or challenge anyone, face to face, even if it puts my life in danger.
0:55.0	But I'm also not afraid to be vulnerable, to truly listen, to empathize, to walk a mile in the well-worn shoes of those very different from me.
1:05.0	It's this latter task, not the formal one, that is truly the most challenging, in conversations and in life.
1:13.0	But to me, it is the only way.
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