Robert Wright – The Gaza War Will Create More Terrorists (Bonus Episode)
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
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🗓️ 19 November 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
0:00 How Bob gave Glenn his start in podcasting
2:05 Is the Gaza War in Israel’s best interests …
11:46 … and if not, what should Israel have done in response to October 7?
18:06 How Hamas gained control of Gaza
26:53 Bob: Some in the Israeli government wouldn’t mind a wider war in the Middle East
36:46 What does “From the river to the sea” actually mean?
46:10 Bob: Every settlement in the West Bank is a war crime
54:20 The psychology of victimhood and retribution
1:00:37 The challenge of spiritual transformation
Recorded November 13, 2023
Links and Readings
Bob’s Substack, the Nonzero Newsletter
Brown University faculty’s call for a ceasefire
Glenn’s conversation with John McWhorter, “Thinking Through the Gaza War”
Bob’s Nonzero Newsletter piece, “The Truth about Hamas”
John Judis’s 2013 New Republic piece, “Clueless in Gaza”
John Judis and Ruy Texeira’s book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes
Bob’s Nonzero Newsletter piece, “The ‘River to the Sea’ Rorschach Test”
Bob debates Eli Lake on Israel-Palestine
Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Bob’s book, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
The documentary Disturbing the Peace
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