America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

Dialogue, Science, Reason, Michaelshermer, Natural Sciences, Skeptic

4.4 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Shermer and Journo discuss: who really owns land? • British Mandate • Theodore Herzl • Zionism, Judaism, and Israel • territorial disputes • Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), Hezbollah (Party of God), and terrorism • Palestinian grievances • The Palestinian cause • Is Israel a colonial conquering empire? • Is Israel an apartheid state? • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement • Gender Apartheid • Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians as separate identities • Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) • Islam and Islamism • justice and its demands • Freedom and individual autonomy as the starting point.

Elan Journo's most recent book is What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict (2018). He is co-author of Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism (2016), a contributor to Defending Free Speech (2016), and editor of Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism (2009). His articles have appeared in a wide range of publications, from Foreign Policy and Middle East Quarterly to The Hill and the Los Angeles Times.

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1:05.6	Okay, my guest today is Elon Jorno,
1:08.4	he's vice president and senior fellow
1:10.0	at the Ein-Rayon Institute.
1:12.0	His most recent book is here.
1:13.3	It is, what justice demands America
1:16.4	and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
1:18.9	This was published in 2018.
1:20.4	So it turns out it's quite prescient, unfortunately we'll be talking about current events and some of the deeper issues
1:27.0	Involved he is co-author of failing to confront Islamic totalitarianism another another big issue, contributor to defending free speech,
1:36.3	another cause we believe in here at Skeptic, an editor of winning the
1:40.4	unwinnable war America's self-crippled response to Islamic totalitarianism.
1:46.0	His articles have appeared in a wide range of publications from foreign policy and Middle East
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