How Iran’s Attack Benefits Israel (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:59 Why Iran’s attack on Israel was an “own goal” 5:36 Did Iran minimize casualties on purpose? 12:11 The rising odds of Israel attacking Iran directly 19:39 America’s contradictory relationship with Israel 25:43 How conflict with Iran helps Israel 34:11 What China wants in the Middle East 43:27 America’s destabilizing role in the region 57:16 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Joshua Landis (University of Oklahoma, SyriaComment.com). Recorded April 16, 2024.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:29.2	Hi, Josh.
0:31.1	Hi, Bob.
0:32.2	Pleasure to be back on your show.
0:34.3	Pleasure to have you.
0:35.3	I'm grateful you can take the time.
0:36.9	A lot is happening in your realm of
0:39.1	expertise let me introduce this i'm robert wright publisher of the non-zero newsletter this is the
0:43.8	non-zero podcast you're joshua landis a professor at the university of oklahoma and what
0:50.0	you're you're like director of the center of middle East Studies there or something? That is very true.
0:55.2	Sandra Mackey chair too.
0:57.2	Shout out to Sandra Mackey.
0:59.4	God bless her.
1:00.6	And you're a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute as well.
1:04.0	I am.
1:05.0	So I hear that the Middle East has been active.
1:09.4	Let me, let me ask you this question.
1:11.9	Now, you teach at a university.
1:15.5	Most classes at universities have a broad range of students ranging from those who are paying a lot of attention to the course and to any relevant news and to those who aren't.
1:24.5	And suppose you run into a student in the latter category and they just like,
1:28.5	they caught wind of this on TV like there was some kind of attack, like Iran attacked Israel over
1:33.8	the weekend. How would you try to boil it if they said like, why did this happen? Like what's going on?
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