Israel, Hamas, and the Laws of War (Robert Wright & Sarah Leah Whitson)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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2:05 Israel’s military plans for northern Gaza 5:05 How does international law apply to Israel and Hamas? 16:15 The first casualty of war is truth 24:50 Do Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute ethnic cleansing? 32:06 The evolving definition of genocide 39:36 How the US and Israel helped Hamas seize power 50:18 America’s ill-fated push for Arab-Israeli normalization 53:17 The hazards of overreacting to Hamas’s attack 1:01:26 How western media has covered the conflict so far

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Sarah Leah Whitson (Democracy for the Arab World Now). Recorded October 16, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.5	Hi, Sarah.
0:35.1	Hi, Bob.
0:36.4	How you doing?
0:37.5	I'm good. Okay, well, How are you doing? I'm good.
0:38.9	Okay, well, let me introduce this.
0:40.9	I'm Robert Wright, publisher with NONZERA newsletter.
0:43.3	This is a non-zero podcast.
0:44.8	You're Sarah Lee Whitson.
0:45.9	You are currently executive director of Don D-A-W-N, which is Democracy for the Air World Now.
0:53.2	That's a group that was started by Jamal Khashoggi,
0:56.0	who of course was murdered by Saudi operatives in Istanbul some years ago.
1:04.0	Until a few years ago, you were at Human Rights Watch,
1:09.2	you were executive director of Middle East and North and the North
1:12.9	Africa Division, right? And in fact, you were on, you were on this podcast, I think maybe
1:20.4	while you still had that job, but in any event, your commentary was very illuminating.
1:24.9	So when I saw on Twitter that you've been keeping track of the various horrors
1:31.2	that have unfolded since Hamas militants entered Israel and committed a lot of atrocities
1:37.8	nine days ago, I thought it would be good to have you on and get your perspective on this.
1:45.2	You're conversant in the context, in, you know, the relevant international law and so on.
1:51.8	So first of all, this is, we're taping Monday, midday.
1:57.2	This will air by this evening.
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