Bassem Youssef No-Holds-Barred On Middle East Turmoil And Media Manipulation

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Chris Cuomo and surgeon-turned-comedian Bassem Youssef discuss the fraught political landscape of the Middle East, dissect the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and explore how fear is used as a tool for control across various political landscapes. The conversation expands to critically evaluate the role of media, military-industrial complex, and sensationalism in the perpetuation of conflicts. Youssef provides his unique perspective, underscoring the importance of sustained conversation, understanding opposing views, and balancing heart and head-based decision making. Join Chris Ad-Free On Substack: http://thechriscuomoproject.substack.com Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something special for you today on the Chris Cuomo Project. Bessam Youssef, okay?
0:06.2	Look him up. He was called the John Stewart of Egypt and that is high praise but he is more than that. We're going to have a conversation today that's going to make a lot of people uncomfortable, but for the right reasons. This is not empty provocation. It's about the Middle East and it's about the head and heart of Arab people,
0:27.5	Palestinian people, where they're coming from. I've talked to you often about where Israeli people are coming from, the
0:33.8	existential fear, what it means to see images of people who say they want to
0:38.0	kill you and destroy you, burn Jewish bodies.
0:42.8	That is a very powerful message
0:44.6	that I believe was sent intentionally
0:46.3	to the Jewish people.
0:48.3	But there aren't just two sides to the situation.
0:50.5	They're like five, and there's humanity that runs throughout all of it.
0:53.8	Now Bessam Youssef grew up in Egypt. He understands the politics of the region.
0:58.5	He understands the history of the region in a way that is exceptional, extraordinary, not as a comedian, not as a cardio thoracic
1:07.4	surgeon that he is, but as a student of the world and as somebody who is in pain because of what's happening in the Middle East,
1:16.0	who has family trapped in a home in Gaza, who has lost people he knows in Gaza.
1:24.0	I believe that everybody who is open
1:28.0	knows that what's happening in the Middle East
1:31.0	has to stop.
1:33.0	That whatever the answer is, which to me is unknown,
1:35.8	it can't be this.
1:37.5	And it can't be this almost insane notion
1:41.2	that it can't stop until Israel eradicate Hamas.
1:45.7	Like we eradicated ISIS, like we eradicated terror
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