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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Israel-Hamas, Year One (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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0:28 Would a different US president have made a difference for Gaza? 14:32 Saudi-Israel normalization takes a step back 19:36 Is all hope lost for a two-state solution? 26:51 Making sense of Israel’s pager attacks in Lebanon 35:28 Heading to Overtime—and an AP PSA

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded September 19, 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.

0:29.1

Oh, look, it's Danny Bessner and Derek Davison of the America Presby's podcast.

0:35.4

That must mean it's time for another high-synergy

0:40.3

non-zero American prestige collaboration

0:43.7

because I am Robert Wright of the Non-Zero podcast.

0:48.3

Hi, Bob.

0:49.7

How are you doing?

0:51.1

Good. That's Dr. Daniel Bessner, though.

0:53.5

But don't make that mistake in the future.

0:55.0

Is it, is it? Yes, of course. Of course, you are. I thought, I thought you were talking about Derek. Jesus Christ. Oh, my God. You came in with a nag already. I thought you were talking about Derek. I mean, all the lefties put a light to me after a while.

1:16.9

So do you guys realize it's been almost a year since we first did one of these collaborations we recorded right before October 7th and because we hadn't posted.

1:22.3

That's right. By October 7th, we recorded an addendum and talked about the consequences of October 7th.

1:30.5

And although I am not a very sunny and optimistic person, even I did not imagine that things

1:36.4

would be as bad as they are a year later.

1:39.8

I think I said, well, Israel will definitely kill thousands of people in retaliation.

1:44.6

I didn't have one in 50 gossans in mind.

1:49.2

And needless to say, I didn't see this major thing coming in various other things that have happened.

1:53.9

Yeah.

1:54.9

Yeah, I mean, they're using it as a situation to solve the so-called Palestinian question, which was difficult to predict at the time.

2:03.0

Obviously, a huge reprisal was definitely coming,

2:06.7

but the fact that they were basically going to go to the max was unpredictable,

2:12.3

I think, and especially the fact that the United States would let them do it.

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