A Debate on Israel-Palestine (Robert Wright & Eli Lake)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

2:06 Why hasn’t the ground invasion happened yet? 8:22 Do conditions in Gaza make terrorism more likely? 16:37 Palestinian violence compared to Israeli violence 27:05 Did Israel really offer the Palestinians a state two decades ago? 32:43 Does Hamas have much support in the West? 39:55 What should be done about Hamas? 51:09 Israel’s blockade of Gaza and strategy of massive retaliation 58:27 Indignities suffered by Palestinians in the West Bank 1:08:21 Should West Bank Palestinians focus on demanding the vote? 1:13:30 Eli’s growing interest in the deep state

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Eli Lake (The New York Sun, Commentary, Clements Center, The Re-Education). Recorded October 24, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.0	Hi, Eli.
0:34.9	Hey, Bob.
0:36.1	How you doing?
0:38.0	I'm a, you know, all things considered, I'm getting by.
0:43.1	Obviously, I think the world's focus is right now on Israel, Gaza.
0:48.6	And we're going to talk about that.
0:50.5	Let me introduce this first.
0:52.2	I'm Robert Wright.
0:53.1	This is the non-zero podcast i'm the publisher of
0:57.0	the non-zero newsletter on substack you're eli lake my uh long-time ideological nemesis we every once
1:05.1	will have a conversation disagree and yet remain on more or less civil terms. For sure.
1:10.9	I set an example for today's youth.
1:14.4	Yes, I agree.
1:16.6	And check out my re-education podcast.
1:18.6	The latest one is up on the Transfanon's Long Shadow on the current, I guess you could say, anti-colonial discourse that led
1:30.9	many on the left to rationalize and even celebrate in some cases the horrific barbarism of the
1:40.3	October 7 massacre.
1:42.6	Yeah, I listened to some of your podcast.
1:44.3	It's good.
1:45.0	It's pretty highly produced, actually.
1:47.7	I was listening to the one on the church committee.
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