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You know what Israel is, Dan?

Okay, I'm going to say something shocking and wild.

It's a country.

It's a country.

It was founded like so many other countries in the mid-20th century.

Countries founded in war, partition,

in ways that were problematic in many ways. I'm not saying this is wonderful and great, but I think

what struck me is that so often I think we educate our young people to think that Israel is

exceptional. It's unlike any other nation, but it's actually completely unexceptional in its

founding. And I think we

have done a huge disservice to our young people when we have failed to educate them about how

Israel is a country. And we have failed to normalize Israel for our young people. We have failed to say,

like, here's a bunch of really unpleasant facts about how Israel was founded. And also, those same

facts apply to these other many, many countries.

Let's go through those as well. And I think our tendency to exceptionalize Israel because we want our

young people to fall in love with it, it really sets them up for failure once they hit college

and they hear their first bad fact and they're like stunned.

Yeah. they're like stunned. It's 4 p.m. on Sunday, September 7th here in New York City. It's 11 p.m. on Sunday, September

7th in Israel, as Israelis have begun a new week.

According to reports today, the U.S. has issued a new ceasefire proposal that would see all

48 hostages released on the first day of the implementation of the deal alongside the release of

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