A Palestinian-American Looks at Gaza (Robert Wright & Omar Baddar)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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1:23 Biden’s vexing political calculus on Israel-Palestine 10:13 Israel-Palestine compared to Russia-Ukraine 13:56 If Israel eliminates Hamas, what happens next? 23:14 Can anything good come out of the present crisis? 29:53 The meaning of “From the river to the sea…” 37:47 Why the 2000 Camp David Summit failed 44:19 Where is Palestine's Nelson Mandela? 54:45 Assessing US media coverage of the Gaza war

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Omar Baddar (Arab American Institute, Public Citizen). Recorded November 28, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.6	Hi, Omar.
0:35.2	Hi, Bob. How are you?
0:36.7	Not bad. How are you doing?
0:39.2	Well, it's been a rough couple of months, but getting by.
0:42.3	Hasn't it? Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, a publisher with Non Zero Newsletter.
0:46.7	This is a Non-Zero podcast. You are Omar Bidar.
0:51.3	A Palestinian-American political analyst.
0:54.4	Until recently, you were deputy director of the Arab American Institute, I think,
0:58.0	and you're still, what, on the board or something?
1:00.4	Or something, what are you?
1:01.8	Yeah, I'm on the National Policy Council of the Arab American Institute.
1:04.6	Okay.
1:05.2	And you write for places like Newsweek and so on.
1:09.5	I don't know, any other things you want to mention?
1:11.8	Yeah, just, you know, plenty of college campus lectures and debates and media appearances
1:17.3	on this issue.
1:17.9	I've basically dedicated a huge portion of my adult life to the issue of Palestine and Israel.
1:23.8	Right.
1:24.2	Let me start up by asking you a question about Palestinian-American identity.
1:30.2	Of course, the broader context for this discussion is going to be, you know, Gaza and so on.
1:36.8	And the various ramifications of that internationally and domestically.
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