The Tom Woods Show, episode 739.

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Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. It is the moment you've been waiting for. It's our debate on the subject of the state of Israel from a libertarian perspective. And I will point out that when I was letting people know about this and preparing them for it and tweeting it out on Twitter, I was sternly lectured. Why don't I have a debate on the creation of Germany, or why don't I have one in the creation of England, and so on and on?

Well, I think, because it's kind of obvious that the creation of Israel is not that long ago, it occurred within the lifetimes of many people who are still alive today, and we were able to

observe its creation with our own eyes, so this makes it a little bit easier. The consequences

of the creation of Israel are in the headlines all the time. So it seems like an important

issue to discuss it also because there's a difference among libertarians on this subject.

And I'm the sort of person who wants to hash out differences and see what kind of conclusions we can reach.

Well, this wasn't quite enough of an explanation for the snowflakes who, honest to goodness, can't see the difference between, well, why don't I look at the creation of Zimbabwe?

I just, I don't think Zimbabwe's as much in the news as Israel is, but also, as I say, we have major libertarians

disagreeing. Murray Rothbard and Walter Block take different views on the subject of the creation

of Israel. So I want to hash this out and see if we can

figure out who's right and who's wrong. I will link to Walter and Murray on the show notes page,

tomwoods.com slash 739 if you'd like to read what they have to say. But I hope after hearing our

debate today, you'll want to hear more about what our

debaters have to say. So let me introduce them to you. And in doing so, I'll tell you a quick

story about just how this got started. I got an email from Walter Block maybe a month ago or so,

and it was to introduce me to the work of Rafi Farber, whom he had co-authored an article with. They

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