Is Israel-Palestine Peace Possible? (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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1:20 How Tom tried to bring down Netanyahu’s government 10:00 The coming Biden-Netanyahu showdown 14:25 What’s driving Israeli public support for such massive retaliation? 24:18 The alarming growth of global disorder 30:50 Is Israel fated to be hated? 42:50 Why Tom is still hopeful about Israel-Palestine

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Thomas Friedman (The New York Times). Recorded December 20, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.1	Hi, Tom.
0:34.6	Hey, Bob.
0:35.4	How you doing?
0:36.6	I'm good.
0:37.7	All things considered. Okay. Let me introduce us. Hey, Bob. How you doing? I'm good. All things considered.
0:39.7	Okay.
0:40.4	Let me introduce us.
0:41.2	I'm Robert Wright, publisher, The Non-Zero Newsletter, to which everyone should subscribe.
0:44.7	This is a Non-Zero podcast.
0:46.8	You are Thomas Friedman, famous columnist from New York Times.
0:51.0	You write about Foreign Affairs, a winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for Reporting and
0:57.2	or Commentary, author of a lot of books, including, I think your first one was from Beirut to Jerusalem,
1:03.6	based on your reporting from the Middle East, a region to which you have paid close attention
1:07.8	ever since. And that is the region whose problems we are going to solve today in our conversation.
1:16.2	You're up for that?
1:17.6	You're in now.
1:19.2	Okay.
1:20.2	So I don't suppose, just to start, that you have any actually uplifting news from the, any
1:25.3	uplifting thoughts about the middle east about specifically
1:28.1	about the uh the gaza war the israel palestine conflict no you know um sort of nothing from there
1:36.3	i i was just in abou dhabi and saudi arabia though um i was in abdadi for the climate conference
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