A Debate on Israel-Palestine (Robert Wright & Coleman Hughes)

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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0:41 Coleman’s Joe Rogan appearance and new book, The End of Race Politics 2:50 Campus protests and free speech 12:53 Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism? 17:42 Is "exterminating Hamas" a viable solution? 27:11 Bob: Israel never offered Palestinians a state 40:54 “Right of return” and Palestinian national identity 57:22 How firmly entrenched is hatred of Israel among Palestinians? 1:08:33 Could better US policy have steered Israel-Palestine toward peace? 1:19:12 Are Palestinian “sacred beliefs” the problem? 1:26:20 Possible Palestinian futures 1:34:01 Israel’s strike on Iran’s consulate in Syria

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Coleman Hughes (Conversations with Coleman). Recorded April 25, 2024.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:27.5	Hi, Coleman.
0:31.2	Hey, Bob.
0:32.6	How you doing?
0:33.5	Good.
0:33.8	How are you?
0:35.0	Can't complain.
0:36.1	Let me introduce us on Robert Wright, publisher of
0:37.9	Non-Zero Newsletter. This is the non-zero podcast. You are Coleman Hughes, famous person,
0:45.0	author of a recent book, The End of Race Politics, Arguments for a Colorblind America. Congratulations
0:49.8	on that. Thank you. Also host of the podcast conversations with Coleman, which I've been honored to be on.
0:57.9	And you've been on my podcast before. And you're a musician and your various things. Like what else,
1:05.1	what else are you that I failed to mention? A friend, a brother. A friend and brother. I was about to say that. My friend and brother,
1:12.9	Coleman Hughes. So the way this came about is I was listening to your conversation with Joe
1:21.8	Rogan, which was a great far-ranging conversation. I particularly enjoyed the stuff at the end about AI because I'm writing a book
1:29.3	about AI and some of it resonated. But the part that got my attention was the part about Gaza,
1:39.3	where you and he had something of a disagreement. And he said, well, I'm not an expert, you know, but have you
1:47.7	debated anybody on this? And you said, yes, Yusuf Munair, and I listened to that on your podcast,
1:53.8	very good conversation. I've had him on my podcast. But his perspective is different from mine.
1:59.6	I mean, he's Palestinian.
2:06.8	You know, I don't really feel an allegiance to either side kind of organically.
2:13.6	My feeling is I'd just like to see the whole, the Israel-Palestine conflict solved.
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