‘Imperfect Allies’: Processing a Year of War Across Communities

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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News Commentary, Politics, History, News

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Two long-time friends have spent the past year having difficult conversations about the Middle East. They share how to have these hard dialogues in times of crisis.

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0:00.0	Listen to Support it, WNYC Studios.
0:07.0	I'm Ky-W-N-Y-C.
0:10.0	I'm Ky-W-Kai Wright.
0:12.0	The horror of what's happening in the Middle East has made it one of the hardest stories to watch unfold.
0:17.0	Hamas's brutal October 7th attack and Israel's choice to respond with an invasion set off an escalation of war unlike any
0:25.2	we've seen in decades and that was right around the time I met our show producer
0:29.7	Suzanne Gabor.
0:30.7	Yeah, Kai our team has been working to find ways to talk about Israel's invasion of Gaza and now Lebanon that acknowledge how fraught the feelings are over this conflict.
0:39.0	Shortly after we met, I met a pair of friends who've been facing those feelings head on,
0:44.8	and challenging our country to have conversations about grief and community.
0:49.4	One is a descendant of people who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The other is a daughter of
0:54.0	parents from Palestine and Lebanon. They are co-creator of a project called
0:58.2	imperfect allies and they'll share why it's so important to just keep talking.
1:03.2	Suzanne, I cannot wait to meet them.
1:05.3	We'll do that in notes from America right after this.
1:12.1	It's bad.
1:13.0	really bad.
1:16.0	Fears of a regional war in the Middle East accelerated.
1:20.0	Iran is bracing for an Israeli response to yesterday's unprecedented missile barrage against Israel.
1:26.0	And Israel continued its bombardment both of Lebanon and Gaza killing dozens.
1:31.0	Are we sad? Yeah.
1:32.0	Are we enraged? Yeah.
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