Israel, Palestine, and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:33 Nonzero/American Prestige cocktail with a hybrid episode twist 2:23 Was Hamas’s attack a predictable response to conditions in Gaza? 14:43 Did Biden’s foreign policy make the attack more likely? 25:20 America’s unstrategic Middle East strategy 30:35 Can anything good come out of the current crisis? 39:56 The Nonzero/American Prestige crossover arc 42:39 How to stay sane as a critic of US foreign policy 48:13 Biden vs Trump: Who’s the lesser evil on foreign policy? 52:12 Strains within the restrainer coalition 57:37 Is there any hope left for international law? 1:07:19 Bob’s pitch for (sober) AI alarmism 1:12:20 Heading to Overtime—and a special offer for listeners!

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded October 05, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.7	Okay, so let me introduce this.
0:35.5	I'm Robert Wright of the Non-Zero podcast.
0:54.7	You guys, as you know, are Danny Besner and Derek Davidson of the American Prestige podcast. And this is an episode of both podcasts. We've decided we're going to get together every couple of months, if not more frequently talking about foreign affairs. To further complicate things, this is a hybrid addition of this dual podcast because we taped a conversation
1:03.1	late last week, but before we got it posted, Hamas attacked Israel, and we decided that was a sufficiently seismic event that we it would be
1:15.1	kind of strange to make no mention of it on a porn affairs podcast posted now so we're reassembling
1:23.7	that that conversation is is at the back end of this. That's still there. If people say
1:29.5	it was long enough. But now we're going to talk about Israel Palestine. Is there anything I left out
1:35.1	that you guys want to throw in? I don't think so. That sounds about right. I covered it.
1:41.3	Okay. And you guys have covered it, I guess, are pretty thoroughly.
1:47.4	There are other things on your podcast feed on the American Prestige podcast feed about this, including I gather an interview with Rashid Khalidi of Columbia.
1:56.3	Yes, we just recorded that.
1:59.0	So that should be out, I think, by the time this comes up.
2:03.1	So check that notes, please.
2:05.2	Please.
2:06.0	So I don't know.
2:07.5	I don't know how to even, what to say first.
2:10.1	Obviously, it's horrible on a number of levels and may get more so.
2:16.4	I don't know.
2:18.0	I have other things to say, but I'll give you a chance.
2:24.5	Well, I'm just curious how have people been reacting in your orbits of establishmentarian
2:31.2	journalists.
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