Cool. Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the weekend. Ask me anything recap discussion episode.

Kick this off two weeks ago. We're going to do these on a bi-weekly basis and folks

appreciated getting the additional content in a slightly different form on Sunday. So we're

going to just kick off by doing a bit of recap and discussion and then we will get into the Q&A

discussion question submitted by supercast subscribers the way that I pay the bills when it comes

to producing three to four podcasts a week on the realignment. If you'd like to subscribe to

hear the full version of this episode and like to support the work we do go to realignment.supercast.com

or click the link at the top of the show notes in your podcast player. So I'd like to kick us off

by discussing you guessed it. Israel, Palestine, Gaza. I basically want to introduce a framework here

because folks have been writing enough questions and obviously this is a complicated situation. So

at our best I think two of us write people frameworks. I have two questions that both sides of this

debate need to answer. Obviously I'm on the pro-Israel side. I think Gaza needs to be cleansed of Hamas.

Take that term over you mean it. But I broadly think Franklin for in the Atlantic who was a guest

on the show last month raised a really good question which is look Israelis you need to tell us

how this ends. The tell me how this ends quote also was used a lot during the Iraq war. It was

asked to David Petraeus when he took over US forces in order to leave the surge. Tell me how this

ends really matters because what Israelis cannot simply just bomb Gaza forever without proving

that the policies that they're taking are going to lead to a Hamas less Gaza and a sustainable

future for this conflict and for the Israelis and the Palestinians. So anyone on the Israel side

especially as the invasion is continuing delayed especially as you're just seeing like really

horrific images of collateral damage coming out of Gaza. You're going to have to answer tell me

how this ends. The question I'm going to have for those on the pro Gaza, pro Palestinian and oftentimes

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