Can Israel-Palestine Be Solved? (Robert Wright & Daniel Seidemann)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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3:06 The significance of Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 13:09 Will the current crisis explode into a wider war? 17:30 Israel’s ultra-nationalist minister of national security 26:41 Settler attacks intensify in the West Bank 40:43 The two-state solution is dead—can it be revived? 56:51 Has Israel lost the support of western young people? 1:04:15 What Hamas hoped to accomplish on October 7 1:15:03 How hopelessness drives support for Hamas 1:23:30 Can one-state aspirations produce a two-state solution?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Daniel Seidemann (Terrestrial Jerusalem). Recorded October 31, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:33.5 | Hi, Danny. |
| 0:36.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:37.8 | I'm doing pretty well. How are you? |
| 0:40.1 | I can't complain. Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, publisher of Non-Zero Newsletter. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the Non-Zero podcast. You are Daniel Seideman, an Israeli lawyer living. |
| 0:50.4 | I believe in Jerusalem, right? |
| 0:52.5 | That's correct. |
| 0:53.9 | And you've been very involved over the years in issues arising from the Israel-Palestine |
| 0:59.0 | conflict. |
| 1:00.4 | You've been active in so-called track two negotiations at times between Israelis and Palestinians. |
| 1:09.6 | You were also, I think, in an advisory capacity involved in the 2000-2001 negotiations |
| 1:17.1 | that are thought by some to have been one of the last chances to get a two-state solution |
| 1:23.0 | and one of the best opportunities. |
| 1:25.4 | And you've spent a lot of time dealing with, you know, land-related issues in court. |
| 1:34.7 | For example, when there needs to be a determination of whether Palestinians are the rightful owners of land they're being evicted to evicted from in east jerusalem you've argued before |
| 1:45.6 | the supreme court a number of times um and i want to talk about a few things the main one uh i guess is |
| 1:55.1 | the situation in east jerusalem and on the west bank broadly um you have been tweeting over the last couple of days with |
| 2:04.7 | some alarm about some developments involving settlers and weapons and the possibility of a militia, |
| 2:14.5 | in effect, a private militia being formed by one of BB's cabinet members. |
| 2:20.2 | And I should say, by the way, people should follow you. |
| 2:22.9 | Your Twitter handle is just your name with no space. |
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